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The Price of Media SilenceSANTIAGO – In 1986, opposition journalist José Carrasco Tapia was dragged from his home in Santiago, Chile, by one of General Augusto Pinochet’s death squads.
The continuing rise in migrant deaths in transit poses a conundrum: as these migrants are pushed toward trafficking and smuggling networks, they are dragged further into the grey areas of the international community’s response.
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, but the subsequent diplomatic discussions dragged out for weeks.
Alexey Navalny, the main organizer and Russia’s de facto opposition leader, was arrested in dramatic fashion, dragged out of a rally in Moscow by police.
Some old nags have also been dragged out of the stables for another run around the course.
The United States “has already dragged” Russia into it, Gorbachev has said, in an effort “to realize its general triumphalist idea.”
The British, meanwhile, have always been classic reluctant member - always late, always unwillingly dragged along in the wake of the front-runners, but seldom offering alternative proposals.
But there is another, darker side to this craving, which is the wish to see idols dragged through the mud in vicious gossip magazines, divorce courts, and so on.
If, as is believed, China is sympathetic to the Maoists, it could ultimately be dragged, in some capacity, into a war in Nepal.
The dispute remained intractable, and dragged interminably through the courts.
In his book Golden Fetters, the economist Barry Eichengreen argued that the lack of coordinated action dragged out the global recovery process.
Ludicrous cases proceed, and more people are being dragged into them.
At the start of 2002, a fragile 1994 agreement between the US and North Korea was still restraining the North’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons, though the US had dragged its feet on several parts of the agreement.
Neighboring Syria and Turkey would probably be dragged into such a conflict instantaneously.
It is that their economies could be dragged into much deeper crises than those that will be experienced at the epicenter of the sub-prime debacle.
While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.
That process dragged on for several months, until Cuba renounced its membership in 1964.
Japan’s banks invested heavily in commercial real estate and were dragged down when the property-market boom of the 1980’s went bust.
To ensure that this effort does not end up being dragged out interminably, as so many EU discussions do, we should begin with concrete objectives.
Bangladesh’s Fundamentalist ChallengeNEW DELHI – In February, while returning from a book fair at Dhaka University, Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger known for his atheism, and his wife were dragged from their rickshaw and hacked with machetes.
Here would be a strange war of all against all, war with no clear-cut fronts; war difficult to distinguish from terrorism, genocide, and organized crime; war into which the whole world would be dragged by a myriad of indirect and hidden means.
On one occasion, he was dragged behind a speeding truck.
If an international force simply allows Ehud Olmert’s government to pursue its plans further, the countries that provide troops for the international force will not only be seen as rubberstamping Israeli policy, but will also be dragged into its failure.
The peace plan for Cambodia in the early 1990’s, for example, dragged the country back from hellish decades of horrifying genocide and ugly and protracted civil war.
The Chinese leadership seems to be aware of this dilemma and is not, in fact, eager to be dragged into fierce competition with the West or its neighbors.
This group of countries is being dragged down further every day by a terrible combination of violence, political fragmentation, social disintegration, and economic implosion.
In practice, the banks have consistently dragged their feet on mortgage restructuring – and are laying off staff, rather than hiring people who could help them deal with an initiative of the required scale.
(Turkey’s Western allies continue to oppose the proposal, lest they be dragged into an all-out confrontation with the Syrian regime and its Russian and Chinese allies.)
In fact, Trump has dragged everyone into his reality-TV world, in which sensation, exaggeration, and misinformation all serve his only true goal: to be the last “survivor” on the island.
Indeed, aggregate GDP has been dragged down since 2010 by faltering growth among oil exporters and security-related crises in the Sahel and North Africa; but in the rest of Africa, GDP growth has accelerated, from 4.1% in 2000-2010 to 4.4% in 2010-2015.
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