Dropped
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While the yield on Japan’s ten-year bond has
dropped
to an all-time low in the last nine years, the biggest risk, as in the US, is a large increase in borrowing costs as investors demand higher risk premia.
Among Saudis, the figure jumped from 17% in 2003 to 46% in 2011, while the share of those claiming a primary Muslim identity
dropped
from 75% to 44%.
The euro's value
dropped
markedly against other major currencies, particularly the US-dollar and the Japanese yen, after its launch in January 1999.
Poor farmers would continue to enjoy robust demand for their products even when food prices dropped, and consumers would be protected from rapid or excessive price increases.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then
dropped
sharply, to about 3,000 now.
Prior to the annexation of Crimea, his approval rating had
dropped
to record lows; afterwards, it surged to more than 80%.
But, since last summer, Putin’s approval ratings have again
dropped
precipitously, to 66% in October and November.
The share of primary- and lower secondary-age children not enrolled in school has
dropped
by 39%.
Most notably, far from labeling China a currency manipulator “on day one” of his administration, as he promised during the campaign, he has
dropped
the charge completely, asking why he should take that step, when China is helping with other challenges (such as the North Korea nuclear threat).
Total reserves have
dropped
from around $70 billion to the current level of around $45 billion, and they seem set to drop further.
During the heat of the 2008 financial crisis, for example, the inflation-indexed yield in the US rose so high for a brief period that implied annual inflation for the next seven years suddenly
dropped
to -1.5%.
But even as these efforts are gathering momentum, The Financial Times, which used to be a staunch supporter of multilateral free trade,
dropped
a cluster bomb on Doha, even congratulating itself that, in 2008 (when a ministerial meeting failed to reach closure), it “argued that leaders should admit the negotiations were dead.”
In 1973, dogged reporting by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post kept the Watergate story alive, after most news outlets had
dropped
it.
The ECB’s inflationary bias will most likely be dropped, as the effect of the financial crisis and the US slowdown sends Europe’s economy into a spin that even the ever-optimistic ECB will be unable to deny.
After 40 years of astonishing 7.9% annual GDP growth, the average growth rate
dropped
to 4.1% in 2000-2010, and has stood at a mere 3% since 2011.
For starters, Trump has
dropped
the “nation-building” element of America’s Afghan strategy.
In the past, jets flying into ash from volcanoes in the US, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Mexico have temporarily lost engine power, and in one case,
dropped
thousands of feet, although all managed to land safely.
We must call a halt in the days (if not hours) ahead to the rain of steel, the cluster and phosphorus bombs, and the barrels of chlorine
dropped
from low-flying government helicopters on the last parts of Aleppo held by moderate rebels.
While public media budgets have not grown everywhere – between 2011 and 2015, for example, funding for public media
dropped
in 40% of the European Broadcasting Union’s 56 member countries – government cash remains influential.
Its mission of disaster planning and preparation was
dropped
entirely, and its focus was altered to fight terrorists.
As American assets have lost their attractiveness, their prices have
dropped.
In 1980, the French clown Coluche actually
dropped
out of the presidential race when one newspaper put his popular support at 16%, causing him to fear that he might influence the result too much.
Of course, even as Le Pen has
dropped
the anti-Semitic blurbs, vocal nostalgia for Vichy France, proud reminiscences of the Algerian war, and even her own father, she has continued to fuel the populist bonfire.
Last year, Europe’s spending on export refunds
dropped
by more than 40% from 2009, to just €400 million.
For example, in 1995 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington sought to take a fresh look at the Enola Gay , the plane that
dropped
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
All of us knew that a failed interrogation could mean being
dropped
from the course.
I was not dropped;I finished first in my class.
Prevention of newborn deaths has thus
dropped
between the cracks of programs focusing on mothers and on older children.
Since 1820, global poverty has
dropped
from 94% of humanity to less than 10% – largely because of free trade.
All subjects were then given an opportunity to help a woman pick up a folder of papers she
dropped
in front of them.
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