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For Roger Ticoalu, who heads the Stockholm city government’s events department, and his colleagues, the assaults were utterly shocking.
With the exception of the past five mass extinction events, estimates from the fossil record suggest that an approximate background rate is one extinction per million species-years, (1 E/MSY).
In fact, should events turn out badly, critically-minded and well-informed urban achievers would be most likely to embrace the ultimate form of non-participation: emigration.
Time and again events compel us to ask this question.
But a series of events – the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the assassinations of a presidential candidate and the incoming president’s chief aide, and the collapse of the currency – shook Mexico that year, underscoring the depth of the challenges it faced.
I was in Brasilia two weeks ago, when the entire country was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the military coup with cultural events and public activities.
In an interview with the Brussels-based newspaper EU Observer, Dalli insisted that the Commission was “lying” about the events surrounding his departure, and that he was forced to resign in an illegal manner.
Currently, however, Obama’s smart-power strategy is facing a stiff challenge from events in the Middle East.
The Erosion of LawMADRID – In assessments of global events and trends in 2014, words like chaos, disorder, and fragmentation are likely to feature prominently.
In both countries, civil society reacted to the events in a remarkable manner, with a sense of unity, dignity, and reaffirmed national cohesiveness.
Even if it were a remote possibility, the 2008 financial crisis has taught us that rare events occur.
Empress Maria Theresa prohibited belief in vampires and ordered a thorough examination of possible natural reasons for such unusual events, as well as the actual causes of death.
Belief in vampires in Eastern European societies served its own historical purposes: uniting communities and identifying outsiders, giving concrete form to death fears, explaining mysterious events, and, last but not least, providing a means of resistance to the encroachment of Western ideas and patterns of thought.
In trying to explain the astonishing repudiation of Major's government, British commentators have quoted a comment made by Harold Macmillan in the 1960s, when he was asked what was the greatest problem a Prime Minister faced: "Events, dear boy, events".
While many of his policies achieved satisfactory results, especially in economics, Major always looked like a victim of events, rather than their master.
Two recent events demonstrate what is at stake.
Of course, it is possible that these events are an aberration.
In response to these events, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker used his State of the Union address this month to call for even more countries to join the eurozone and the Schengen Area.
He points out that people’s choices and assessments of current events are partly based on the stories they have heard about past events.
Real life often seems simply to tick on like that, regardless of headline news and momentous events.
As the United States Global Change Research Program’s recently released draft report on climate change points out, some kinds of weather events have become more common, and more intense, in recent years.
The conventional “fundamental” explanation for that cycle relates it to political events.
But some economists doubt that these events tell the whole story.
Sure, there were sharp movements in oil prices corresponding to these events, but maybe there were other, even more important factors affecting general trends in oil prices.
After all, these events don’t really explain why prices of other commodities often followed that of oil.
Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions are struggling with the fallout from large-scale climate-related events.
In such circumstances, seemingly small events can trigger an unforeseen and disastrous chain reaction.
Like Grass, Germans – especially the younger generations, who feel further removed from the events of WWII – are increasingly abandoning the notion that they owe it to Israel to remain its silent, steadfast supporters.
Only two events have the power to mobilize and energize this sense of patriotism: the October revolution of 1917 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which turned the USSR and Russia into a great world power.
Such events are commonly priced in the derivatives market, which puts the price for the S&P event at ten cents on the dollar.
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