Event
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She has called the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union the biggest political
event
in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Typhoon Hagupit is just the latest
event
to showcase this.
Nowadays, of course, no one remembers that one-day slide in 1928, but, from the participants’ perspective, it was an enormous
event.
But the December 6, 1928,
event
began a sequence of increasingly severe one-day drops in the Dow over the course of the following year.
At the time of the September 11-12, 1986, event, I thought very hard about what could have caused it.
Meanwhile, Russia has said that it is developing its own system for financial transfers, to protect itself from being shut out of the SWIFT system in the
event
of harsher US sanctions.
The right starting point is to understand the Great Depression itself, since the 1929-1933 economic crash was a once-in-a-century
event.
An exception may be prudential (safety-and-soundness) standards for banks, insurance companies, and some forms of pension plans, which should be tough, because national governments almost always will bear the losses in the
event
of failures of these types of financial institutions.
An African friend had invited me to the event, at an acquaintance’s home.
The importance he places on this
event
is reflected in its very improbability.
The long-awaited climate deal that Xi struck with Obama at another peripheral meeting at the same
event
is no small step, either.
China’s growth miracle, benefiting a fifth of the earth’s population, is the most important economic
event
of the last quarter-century.
None of this means that an external military option should be ruled out in the
event
of mass atrocity crimes occurring – or being imminently feared – at the hands of ISIS or anyone else.
The bottom line is that the current version of US biofuels policy, with its fixed requirement for blending, leads to a greater price response in the
event
of a crop shortfall – in the short run.
Indeed, the value of the euro would be tied to an
event
difficult to predict and equally difficult to define.
First, although a once-in-a-century
event
is as likely to occur at the beginning of the century as at any other time, it is much less likely to occur in the first decade of the century than later.
It is a global
event.
In the
event
of a loss of market confidence, state guarantees for that much funding would further strain market perceptions of French creditworthiness, generating more pressure on French banks to shrink their balance sheets rapidly.
And yet, in two months, when Russia hosts the soccer World Cup – the world’s most-watched sporting
event
– it will make just such a positive contribution on the international stage.
In fact, the Kremlin would benefit even more from staging a well-organized
event.
The Garcia report shows that Russia desperately wanted to host the event, and that Putin even made personal appeals to other countries’ voting officials; yet it finds no evidence of collusion, bribery, or any other rule violations.
As a warm-up for the main
event
this year, the Confederations Cup was a success in terms of logistics and fan satisfaction.
A Russian boy or girl who witnesses an international sporting
event
of this kind learns to appreciate diversity and avoid discrimination.
Yet the stadium was beautiful, the
event
was well organized, and 40,000 fans enjoyed a wonderful evening.
But there is every reason to believe that Russia will be an excellent host for an important, unifying global
event.
This means that there is no guarantee that, in the
event
of a crisis, a central bank will actually provide the swap line it has pledged, at least not without attaching political strings.
Although the film ultimately drew a large crowd, some prominent students chose to hedge their bets on the future by attending the competing
event.
Hence the strange mixture of emotions during the event, leaving the whole spectacle to hover somewhat uncertainly between Verdi’s Aida and Wagner’s Gotterdammerung.
Indeed, nuclear energy is a safer proposition now than ever before, but, for many people, the mere spectacle of an
event
like Fukushima – regardless of the outcome – is sufficient to draw the opposite conclusion.
More than any other
event
of our era, that violent coup was responsible for launching both the contemporary global movement for human rights and the American movement to promote human rights internationally.
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