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It simply presents a series of sometimes unorthodox, and even controversial, proposals aimed at sparking a serious, constructive debate about the challenges facing news media.
Facing accusations that he had transferred nearly $700 million from the state investment fund 1MDB to his personal bank accounts, Prime Minister Najib Razak attempted to block news outlets and blogs that reported on the scandal.
Like utilities, established financial institutions are facing external constraints on their pricing power, though not of the traditional form.
Even worse, it is highly probable that Americans advocating for a reduced US role in the world would seize on Brexit as further evidence that traditional allies were not doing their fair share, and that a US facing growing deficits and massive domestic needs should not be expected to make up the difference.
Europe is already facing a perfect storm of fiscal strains, anemic economic growth, massive inflows of migrants and refugees, and renewed Russian aggression.
A simplified description runs as follows: Facing low growth and high unemployment, and with other policymakers stuck on the sideline, a central bank like the US Federal Reserve feels that it has no choice but to adopt a highly accommodating monetary policy.
For a company facing sexual harassment claims, the comment displayed more than poor taste; it showed an appalling failure to grasp the gravity of the situation.
This policy has led the US into a trap, so that now the largest and most important power in the world is facing only bad options.
Six months before the referendum, the EU did not even appear among the ten most important issues facing Britain as mentioned by potential voters.
Some also suggest that China’s economy could follow in Japan’s footsteps, facing a “lost decade” (or two) of negligible growth.
Yet a great number of the threats facing the two sides are increasingly shared and can often best be confronted together.
In the wake of the resulting collapse of export receipts and budget revenues, OPEC adopted a new approach, based on a modernized production agreement with two key features: greater flexibility for countries facing especially complex internal conditions (such as Libya) and the inclusion of non-OPEC producers, particularly Russia.
So the question facing Americans as they toast their good times is this: If and when a correction occurs, will it take the shape of a stock market crash, as occurred in 1987, or will it take the shape of a slow and painful descent, as in Japan in the 1990s?
In 1933, his Lord Brothers Shoe Company in Brockton, Massachusetts, was facing imminent bankruptcy.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, experts named water risk as one of the top four risks facing business in the twenty-first century.
Through its Water Futures Partnership, the company has identified which of its facilities are located in areas facing water-security risks and has created partnerships in the local watersheds to address these risks.
FDI also often helps save jobs in the US, when firms facing competition from abroad must choose between offshoring their unskilled-labor activities and going out of business.
But deep historical resentments should not obscure the fact that South Korea is facing many of the same challenges as Japan.
The combination of the highest share of Catholics in the world with a decline in the share of religious adherents leaves Francis facing a strategic dilemma.
The regime is now facing its moment of truth.
But however justified criticism of growing US unilateralism may be--in the so-called war on terrorism and elsewhere--the gravest risks facing Russia lie elsewhere.
The second risk facing Russia is no less daunting.
When facing disasters, all of us feel a need to do something.
Today, the former allies are unable to work together, even when facing a common enemy like the Islamic State.
For the most important issue facing Taiwan today is not re-unification with China, but consolidating and deepening our democratic institutions.
Therein lies the real challenge facing China today.
But, with the real-estate sector finally facing a downturn, the time to rethink this investment strategy has arrived.
Given the broad range of threats facing marine life – including overfishing, climate change, pollution, and coastal development – it is easy, perhaps even rational, to be pessimistic.
The most significant of the many challenges facing the World Bank concerns the logic of its structure and internal functioning.
But the main challenge facing the World Bank consists in defining its mission and core activities.
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