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In fact, there are two lefts in the region: a modern, democratic, globalized and market-friendly left, found in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, parts of Central America, and, up to a point, in Peru; and a retrograde, populist, authoritarian, statist, and anti-American left, found in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, in Argentina, Colombia, and Paraguay.
Putin Family ValuesLONDON – The fixation on the ongoing World Cup, during which an estimated one million foreign football fans, many from Europe and the United States, are expected to converge on Moscow and other Russian cities, risks masking the
extent
to which Russia and the West have drifted apart.
How badly the financial crisis damaged the reputation and performance of the major Western centers is a question increasingly asked in London, and to a lesser
extent
in New York.
Likewise, the US-based group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics has shown the
extent
to which careers lead from the US Department of Defense to the defense industry.
Trump’s Manafort ProblemWASHINGTON, DC – As the first criminal trial of a major figure in US President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign got under way in Virginia last week, observers have wondered to what
extent
not only Paul Manafort, his campaign manager for a crucial period, but also Trump himself is in the dock.
Which principles a machine requires would depend, to some extent, on how it is deployed.
For their part, ethicists must recognize that programming a machine requires the utmost precision, which will require them to sharpen their approach to ethical discussions, perhaps to an unfamiliar
extent.
This incident revealed the
extent
to which the police cooperated in turning ordinary Chinese into slaves.
European financial markets were, and to some
extent
still are, dominated by a few large banks.
Equally unclear is the
extent
to which foreign interference through Facebook contributed to the election of US President Donald Trump, and to the outcome of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum.
After 30 years of transformation, China’s economy, society, and, to some extent, its political system, have changed profoundly.
It is no wonder, therefore, that locally trained young people in America, and to a large
extent
in Europe, tend to avoid university science departments, with new students largely recruited from among recent immigrants.
But the
extent
to which digitally oriented younger consumers are driving rapid growth in China’s service industries has not yet received ample attention.
To the
extent
that unconventional monetary policy – including various forms of quantitative easing, as well as pronouncements about prolonging low interest rates – serves these roles, it might be justified.
An even bigger shock to the pre-2008 orthodoxy than the collapse itself was the revelation of the corrupt power of the financial system and the
extent
to which post-crash governments had allowed their policies to be scripted by the bankers.
To a large extent, this discrepancy reflects a low and delayed exchange-rate pass-through into US import prices, linked to America’s unique advantage of having more than 90% of its imported goods priced in its own currency, with dollar prices remaining unchanged for ten months at a time.
In Indonesia (and to a lesser
extent
Malaysia), science and technology, commerce and modern management as well as the all-important challenges of democracy, human rights, and gender equality are being tackled head-on in authentic terms of Muslim discourse.
What they failed to recognize was the
extent
of economic anxiety felt by working-class families in key states, owing to the dislocations caused by technology and globalization.
The repeated claim by shocked Clinton voters that no one they knew voted for Trump reveals the
extent
to which too many people – Republicans as well as Democrats – live in social, economic, informational, cultural, and communication bubbles.
All leaders lie and dissemble to some extent; but the scale of disinformation coming from the Kremlin has been epic.
To the
extent
that the Fed manages to push this price down (and some economists will dispute its ability to push any meaningful interest rate down), it taxes the producers of savings and subsidizes the spenders of savings.
If all of this is true, psychotherapy succeeds to the
extent
that it activates and enhances the lifelong processes of neural plasticity.
The Tibetans, by contrast, can share this feeling only to the
extent
that they become fully Chinese.
Consider, for example, that no one has ever developed a precise way to measure whether and to what
extent
a government is effective.
Given the
extent
of the proposed reforms, the election’s outcome could lead to significant destabilization of the chaebol.
Yet these experts have failed to grasp the
extent
to which new technologies, particularly social media, enable wrongdoing.
But Sweden’s current political muddle is also rooted in longer-term changes, which to some
extent
reflect broader European trends.
Of course, the
extent
to which an electoral system favors large parties – by having high popular-vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner-take-all constituencies – affects the degree of political fragmentation.
To the
extent
that this sense of decline is grounded in reality, can Japan recover?
An increase in the official retirement age - currently close to 65 in most countries - is pointless to the
extent
that many people no longer exit the labor force directly into official retirement systems.
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