Dropped
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When communist Poland applied to rejoin the IMF in 1981, for example, US opposition induced the Fund’s managing director not to bring the matter before the board; no vote was taken until the US
dropped
its objection.
According to the Pew survey, EU favorability is down almost everywhere since 2007, having
dropped
20 points in the Czech Republic and Spain, 19 points in Italy, and 14 points in Poland.
In the United Kingdom, the new government, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, has
dropped
the target of eliminating the deficit by the end of the decade.
The US, for example, initially had strong objections to the Convention on Tobacco Control, but
dropped
them in the face of international criticism.
Offshoring
dropped
during the Great Recession that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, but quickly rebounded, accelerating past pre-crisis levels.
The unemployment rate has
dropped
to 5%, just above the Fed’s current median estimate for the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).
Indeed, the number of those “not in the labor force, currently want a job” category
dropped
416,000, to just above 5.6 million, in November; historically, this kind of change has been closely associated with rising wage pressure.
Others have lacked educational opportunities or have
dropped
out of school.
Investing in, say, solar power may have seemed worthwhile when oil cost $100 per barrel, but it looked a lot less appealing when the price
dropped
below $50.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
dropped
1,000 points twice, wiping out all the gains that the bull market had racked up for the year so far.
Indeed, in 2012, annual nuclear generation worldwide
dropped
by an unprecedented 7%, exceeding the previous year’s record-breaking drop of 4% and bringing total annual nuclear-power generation to 12% below its historic maximum, achieved in 2006.
As a result, nuclear power’s share of global electricity generation
dropped
to around 10% in 2012, compared to its 1993 peak of 17%.
As a result, the price per installed solar kilowatt has
dropped
by three-quarters over the last seven years.
Then, because they were recently
dropped
from their health-insurance plan due to age, they must cough up more money to foot the bill for treatment.
Likewise, the share of those living in poverty worldwide has
dropped
from 43% to less than 18% since 1981.
It is on this third challenge that both neo-Keynesians and supply-siders have
dropped
the ball.
He wanted an economics that would give full scope for judgment, enriched not only by mathematics and statistics, but also by ethics, philosophy, politics, and history – subjects
dropped
from contemporary economists’ training, leaving a mathematical and computational skeleton.
But, with concerted international efforts, including by NATO ships, pirate attacks have
dropped
sharply.
In the 1920s, journalists like H.L. Mencken made Christian fundamentalists in the US look so foolish that they
dropped
out of politics for several generations.
The Unavoidable Costs of Helicopter MoneyMUNICH – The long-running debate about the advisability of so-called helicopter money has changed shape, as new ideas emerge about the form it could take – and questions arise about whether it is already being
dropped
on some economies.
The scores in both London and New York for the quality and intensity of regulation, and the tax burden, have
dropped.
The interest-rate spreads for Italian and Spanish government bonds have
dropped
dramatically, corporate-bond issues have resumed, and a sense of normalcy is slowly pervading the continent.
In Japan and Latin America, volatility
dropped
in a meaningful way only in the current decade.
To this day, it has
dropped
the ball on very straightforward operational issues in Iraq, such as funding democracy promotion efforts.
Even though radiation levels
dropped
by a factor of nearly 100 in the months after the accident, the area is still judged unfit for human habitation.
Annual growth of M3 money supply, meanwhile,
dropped
to 1.4% in October, from an already dismal 2% in September, while loans to the private sector contracted by 2.9% year on year.
Had he
dropped
any of the balls he was juggling, today’s world would be much worse.
Most Russian participants at the Davos dinner seemed to ignore these criticisms, but it was interesting to hear one important official admit that reform might progress faster if oil prices
dropped
somewhat, and another accept the point that criticism should be welcomed as long as it is offered in a friendly spirit.
In some cases, currencies move in the same direction as monetary policy – for example, when the yen
dropped
in response to the Bank of Japan’s 2013 quantitative easing.
And some Jewish athletes were discreetly
dropped
from national teams.
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