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On an individual level, adults who were stunted in their childhood – a condition that has affected nearly 70% of the working population in some areas – often face a diminished capacity to work and earn a living, owing to the developmental challenges they faced.
Tony Blair, who in July was faced with the shortcomings of integration in the UK, should take advantage of the country’s current presidency of the European Union to make affirmative action programs the top priority at next month’s summit of European government leaders in Brussels.
The child was cured within the home; a few years ago, that same child would have faced a high risk of death unless he was somehow brought to a distant clinic in time.
Two-thirds reported that they had faced “intimidation, threats, or abuse,” mostly by bosses, supervisors, or co-workers.
Not long before that, his successor at the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn, faced pimping charges in France.
Faced with such challenges, open data has become a key tool in redefining the urban-planning process.
On the contrary, as in 1989, we are faced with the urgent need for change and responsible leadership.
Instead, each proposal faced its own opposition.
In technology, Apple and Foxconn have faced criticism for working conditions at their Chinese production sites.
Some central bankers tell us not to worry, because they will be much more disciplined than central banks were in the 1970’s, when the world faced a similar commodity price spike.
Although the problem faced by Kopacz and Civic Platform was specifically Polish, it contains a universal truth: to win, politicians must define the context in which they operate.
Revisiting the challenges that the AKP and the Muslim Brotherhood faced in becoming two of the world’s most influential Islamist parties can provide valuable insight into this fundamental question.
The dilemmas faced by Moshe Kahlon, the finance minister, and Naftali Bennett, the education minister, are instructive.
Balancing economic growth and poverty reduction with policies aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability is undoubtedly the greatest challenge that our globally interconnected society has ever faced.
In his novel of that title Joseph Heller described the situation faced by some fighter pilots in WWII: medics can ground anyone who is crazy, provided that the pilot requests to be grounded.
Those who could left the Soviet zone and settled in the West; those who could not faced the sullen existence of subjects rather than citizens.
Then there is France, where President Emmanuel Macron – once hailed as Europe’s next de facto leader – has faced a wave of protests and civil disorder in recent weeks.
Most notably, eurozone countries have faced powerful asymmetric shocks, to which their lack of independent monetary-policy instruments made it virtually impossible to respond.
Confidence must now be restored and the only way to accomplish this is to establish stable and sound public finance - the same problem Russia faced and failed to solve for the past decade.
Instead, they were faced with a $4.8 billion funding gap.
What seems indisputable is that today’s anti-liberal, authoritarian Russia is as much a product of the souring of relations with the West as it is of Russian history or the threat of disintegration that Russia faced in the 1990s.
Much international attention has focused on the USA Patriot Act's sanctioning of grave violations of civil liberties, and on the subsequent treatment of thousands of immigrants--particularly south Asian Muslims--who have faced secret detention and deportation.
Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.
Watering the Middle EastFEZ – The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – have faced the worst water shortages in decades in 2016.
Libya has faced even greater instability, wrought by years of internal conflict.
As the only leading candidate to take a firm line against Russian President Vladimir Putin, he faced a last-minute leak of hacked (and fake) emails and other attempts to smear him.
Like Chirac – who faced Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, in the second round in 2002 – Macron won the runoff by a landslide not because he swept French voters off their feet, but because many could not bring themselves to vote for the National Front.
Over the last 50 years, MENA countries have faced economic slowdowns and even stagnation.
In any case, the possibility of unexpected restrictions or sanctions on businesses or individuals, imposed in the name of national security, sharply increases the risks faced by Chinese, American, and other businesses.
Yet it is this centralized, one-party system of governance that the US is trying to change, in what amounts to the first significant external shock with a prominent national-security dimension that China has faced in the last 40 years.
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