Dropped
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The X Prize Foundation once promoted this idea, but
dropped
it when a funder lost interest.
Indeed, Greece may have
dropped
out of the high-income category in recent years.
Since Hollande
dropped
out of the running, Macron, his centrist former economy minister, has been urged to run in the Socialist primary, now that he can do so without betraying the president under whom he served.
With just 10-15 years of estimated oil reserves remaining, the United Arab Emirates last year
dropped
visa requirements for most Westerners in an effort to accelerate the development of a viable tourist trade.
With two business advisory councils having been disbanded in the wake of the Charlottesville incident, following an exodus of CEOs critical of Trump’s response, plans for an infrastructure advisory council have now also been
dropped.
Others blame the unemployed, those who have
dropped
out of the labor market altogether, or those who want to work but supposedly have nothing of value to contribute – the so-called “zero marginal product workers.”
While risk premiums on ten-year bonds remain far above pre-crisis levels, yields have
dropped
considerably, from 4% at the beginning of 2010 to 3.2% today.
As a result of the global financial crisis, China’s export growth in 2009
dropped
by 34% compared to 2008.
Trust in medical institutions
dropped
from 73% to 29%, and in journalism from 29% to 14%.
Even as aid remained at record levels last year, funds provided to the world’s least-developed countries actually
dropped.
The goal of full employment
dropped
off Western leaders’ radar, even though there was neither a threat of inflation nor additional benefits to be gained from increased openness.
Obama needed to meet his promise to set a new direction in foreign policy while simultaneously managing to juggle the issues left to him by George W. Bush, any of which, if dropped, could still cause a crisis for his presidency.
Consumer spending
dropped
sharply in October, owing to negative wealth effects and heightened uncertainty, but it quickly stabilized and recovered, while investment spending remained essentially unchanged.
Human rights groups suggested the charge was invented, because the police had
dropped
the case for lack of evidence when it was first investigated 12 years ago, and neither witnesses nor new evidence were produced in court.
Employment at the country’s largest companies is falling, and the share of South Korean jobs at such companies has
dropped
by one-third since 1995.
Over the past 50 years, as countries such as China and India posted double-digit economic growth, the global Gini coefficient
dropped
from 0.65 to 0.55.
Though the Gini coefficient
dropped
to 0.465 by 2016, that still exceeds the 0.24-0.36
To grasp the speed of this global rebalancing, consider that in 1990, more than 95% of R&D was carried out in developed countries; a decade later, the developed countries’ share had
dropped
to 76%.
And, indeed, US intelligence estimates indicate that, by last September, the flow of foreign recruits crossing from Turkey into Syria to join groups like ISIS had
dropped
from a high of 2,000 per month to as few as 50.
The North Korean bomb, estimated at four kilotons, does not come anywhere near the magnitude of the atomic bombs of 15-21 kilotons that America
dropped
on Japan 64 years ago.
Similarly, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, US stocks
dropped
nearly 12%, but bounced back in a month.
By 2013, the proportion had
dropped
to 13.5%.
Over time, as businesses have cut back on investment in response to diminishing returns, growth in labor productivity and hourly wages has slowed, and workers in many households have
dropped
out of the workforce.
Recent polls suggest that optimism about the potential benefits of AI has
dropped
significantly among those who are actually developing AI systems.
Whereas there were more than ten references to “cow that” for every reference to “cow who” in 1920, by 2000 the ratio had
dropped
to less than five to one.
The five-year review of child safety measures, launched by the Football Association (the governing body of UK soccer) in 2001, was
dropped
after just two years, reportedly in response to resistance from some FA staff.
Urban land prices in major Japanese cities have steadily
dropped
over much of the period since 1991, as the enormous faith in the miraculous powers of Japanese capitalism gradually faded.
But even if innovation has not
dropped
off too much, or picks up again soon, the structural adaptation and behavioral changes needed to take advantage of the concomitant productivity gains will take time.
This was the case for both Yellen and Flug – until the preferred, male applicants
dropped
out.
“If we want to keep on building the cars of the future here in America,” he declared, “we can’t afford to see the number of PhDs in engineering climbing in China, South Korea, and Japan even as it’s
dropped
here in America.”
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