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Indeed, Ahn Cheol-soo, a successful entrepreneur turned pro-reform professor at Seoul National University and the main backer of the city’s new mayor, has now rocked South Korean politics by dropping broad hints that he might become a presidential candidate.
Aging general secretaries were dropping like flies.
Though dropping the consensus norm might help deliver agreements and make the WTO more “efficient,” it poses real risks to the organization’s legitimacy.
The short-term efficiency gains from dropping consensus may well be outweighed by higher long-term costs.
With Rousseff dropping in the polls and her opponents slowly gaining, the October presidential election – once thought to be a done deal – may be up for grabs.
The Fed’s first priority is to try to keep the American economy from dropping too far below full employment, and to try and avoid a US meltdown contaminating other economies.
In the latest (2012) scores on international achievement tests, US teenagers scored below the OECD average, dropping to 31st place in math; 24th place in science and 11th place in reading.
The fungus then reproduces by dropping its spores all over the forest floor, to infect more ants below.
A strike designed to destroy Assad’s air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.
After a breakdown in diplomatic approaches, the rich world is busy dropping bombs on Serbia, at a cost of billions of dollars per month, and will no doubt devote billions more to cleaning up and fixing the damage from the bombs once a diplomatic settlement is made finally.
Ignorance of the law has become an excuse to flout it, and to engage in ethically dubious behavior, such as inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Mar-a-Lago resort, or attacking the department store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line.
The improvements do not stop there: the world is more literate; child labor has been dropping; we are living in one of the most peaceful times in history; and the majority of the world’s governments are democratic regimes.
South Asia has the world’s highest rates of malnutrition and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher mortality rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater likelihood of dropping out of school.
The all-purpose rationale for dropping a MOAB in the Afghan mountains was that, after eight years of Barack Obama’s alleged weakness, using America’s largest nonnuclear bomb would “restore deterrence.”
Most important, the barriers to making goods and services in Mauritius, Mozambique, or Mauritania and selling them in New York or Berlin, Santiago or Tokyo are dropping swiftly.
In 2013 and 2014, energy firms dominated business investment, and cutbacks in the sector will translate into lost jobs and dropping demand for the manufacturers and service companies supplying the industry.
It is hard to imagine that manufacturers are not now postponing orders of capitals goods, and that new home sales in America are not dropping right now.
Water tables are dropping where farmers are lucky enough to have wells, and rainfall has become increasingly unpredictable.
Old concerns about integrating wind and solar into traditional electricity systems are dropping away.
After dropping by more than half between mid-June and mid-January, oil prices in euros have since bounced back by a third, partly owing to the euro’s sharp depreciation, which is making imports generally more expensive.
By the end of the year, this seemed to be happening: commodity prices and growth rates were dropping, and 2012, while still promising strong economic performance, will not match this year's success.
But now demand for cocaine in most of the world is stable or dropping.
If it is true, the market will stay down or continue dropping, and the first mover will profit from the sales that it has made.
In that time, the budget deficit was reduced 5 fold, and is now only about 1% of GDP, with unemployment dropping from 23% to 15%.
With the price of oil and commodities also dropping, the risks of deflation and a growth slowdown far outweigh the threat of inflation.
Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed.
Russia is dropping bombs even as Putin claims to be supporting a ceasefire.
Relative pay for teachers has been dropping as their total numbers increase, which affects teacher quality.
The speed of the decline in fertility rates has been dramatic around the world; in Iran, it has been nothing less than astonishing, dropping from seven children per woman in 1984 to 1.9 in 2006.
Conversely, if someone at work is bothering you, you don’t need to tell them directly; you can just e-mail them a link to Digital Mirror (just like the old trick of dropping a can of deodorant on a co-worker’s desk – difficult but sometimes necessary).
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