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If we fail to address them adequately, the outcome is unlikely to be a safer and more prosperous society, but rather one in which frustration and hopelessness increase, potentially leading to extreme behaviors.
This does not mean that the US needs to go to the extreme of a full-on socialized health-care system, whereby the government directly provides health care to all (though the British are certainly attached to their National Health Service).
Second, unlike Kaczynski’s Law and Justice Party (PiS), Fidesz has an even more extreme party to its right – Jobbik – which enjoys significant support.
Is France just an extreme version of Europe’s traditional “Big Powers” predicament?
Markets are just moving towards a new equilibrium with higher interest-rate spreads, which reflect the higher default risk of some European countries – a bit like in pre-euro times, though much less extreme.
Such extreme policies are still only theoretical, and implementing them would most likely spur heightened congressional scrutiny.
Now we must resist the temptation to go to the other extreme.
After exposure to extreme stress, some victims report difficulties remembering things in everyday life.
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.
Sixth, some extreme political conservatives, especially in the United States, hyped gold in ways that ended up being counterproductive.
Yes, all investors should have a very modest share of gold in their portfolios as a hedge against extreme tail risks.
But as in any other debate, once extreme positions dominate, the real problems are trivialized and marginalized.
For years he championed extreme Serbian nationalism and led paramilitary formations in the wars of Yugoslavia's disintegration.
The onus, ironically, will remain on the Fed to “do the right thing” – namely, to normalize interest rates with extreme caution, while allowing the share of labor income in GDP to rise, even if that requires some overshooting of inflation.
Facing immediate credit rationing and large output contractions, they could be stabilized only by exceptional official financing from abroad, and, in some extreme cases, by defaulting on past commitments (including to bondholders and, most recently, bank depositors).
This incentive structure has only become more extreme since the financial crisis of 2008.
Jia’s movie is episodic; four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from contemporary newspaper stories.
He went so far as to support the election of an extreme nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic, who was an old ally of Milosevic’s, as the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament.
But whether they belong to the extreme right or the communist left, they represent barely 20% of the electorate.
Jacques Chirac was re-elected president with 82% of the vote because of the menace from the extreme right.
Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled “schizophrenic,” considered to be the most extreme form of “mental illness,” and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.
Moreover, secure land rights are essential to reduce disaster risk and build climate resilience, which is an urgent imperative at a time when climate change is already fueling more – and more frequent – extreme weather.
But realizing key SDG targets – which are fully aligned with the World Bank Group’s own twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity – will require a much larger investment program focused on strengthening land tenure across the developing world.
In fact, the European Patent Office (EPO) is not particularly committed to assessing the moral implications of the patents it grants; in its view, “ordre public” would be violated only in the extreme case of a truly outrageous invention.
Ignoring the female voice in a disaster context is foolish in the extreme.
Little comfort is to be taken if Brazil's crisis is less extreme than Russia's, but surely it is time tell the IMF to start adopting winning strategies rather than gamble on the seemingly less painful options peddled by client governments.
Faster economic growth, rising incomes, and wealth redistribution over the past decade – fueled by sound macroeconomic policies, foreign investment, and rocketing commodity prices – have helped to reduce poverty rates by 13 percentage points, and extreme poverty by five percentage points.
For example, how would Greece (or any country) exit the euro in order to cushion the extreme downward wage adjustment required to regain competitiveness, and to avoid the severe social unrest that could result from reining in debt too rapidly?
The US response to this prospect has been extreme.
Democracies have long known that extreme and indiscriminate punishment – which by definition affects friend and foe, combatant and civilian alike – is a grave violation of international law, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has pointed out.
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