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This globally acclaimed and masterful film was definitely one of the most risky and dared projects in cinema history and thus it also easily could have been one of the biggest failures ever.
The supporting cast is a trashy group of lower-class failures that love to stand around like idiots and live disgusting lives.
For these failures, the Fund has never offered any apology, certainly not in the abject manner of Lagarde’s recent statement.
The current balance of probabilities is that two years from now, the North Atlantic’s principal labor-market failures will not be demand-side market failures that could be easily remedied by more aggressive policies to boost economic activity and employment.
Rather, they will be structural market failures of participation that are not amenable to any straightforward and easily implemented cure.
Equally harmful are the government’s sensitivity to its own policy failures and the stigma attached to a disease that is often sexually transmitted.
By contrast, their greatest failures have come from funding grandiose projects that benefit the current elite, but do not properly balance environmental, social, and development priorities.
Structuralists typically advised governments to adopt import-substitution strategies, using public-sector intervention to overcome “market failures.”
In all cases, they have been at the center of today's economic successes and failures.
Much has been said about Merkel’s achievements and failures.
While Mansour’s killing may be, as Obama put it, “an important milestone” in the effort to bring peace to Afghanistan, it also exposed America’s policy failures under the Obama administration, rooted in the desire not to confront either Pakistan or even the Taliban too strongly.
Iraq's Next Shock Will be Shock TherapyWith one exception - the actual military "victory," which looks increasingly Pyrrhic - President Bush's Iraqi adventure has been marked by repeated failures.
Blinded by ideology, however, the Bush administration seems determined to continue its record of dismal failures by ignoring past experience.
Indeed, shock therapy's advocates argue that its failures were due not to excessive speed - too much shock and not enough therapy - but to insufficient shock.
If they do not want to repeat the failures of past administrations, they will be well advised to do what none of Obama’s predecessors have tried.
If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega-storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.
China’s adaptive policymaking approach has produced both spectacular failures, with entire markets being shut down, and remarkable successes, yielding models that could be applied across the country.
Ultimately, such failures made those policies less effective for the entire population, and could lead to long-term security consequences for Germany.
So, what lessons can we draw from the successes and failures of Russia’s last two decades of post-Soviet transition?
But the macroeconomic model on which he bases his claim can hardly be called reliable, given its manifest failures to predict either the crisis or the euro’s survival.
Of course, China’s approach has brought significant stresses, setbacks, and failures.
And the reasons for these failures are not specific to financial management.
But, even in advanced countries, the influence of vested interests can lead to collective-action failures and, in turn, to incorrect benchmark rates.
Instead, the exigencies of domestic politics have induced many European leaders to underscore the difficulties and accentuate the failures of expansion.
In Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, preventing bank failures, not military escalation, was the most pressing problem.
President Herbert Hoover’s failures should be a sanguinary lesson.
Their successes and failures are more germane to current discussions than, say, the fiscal implications of Scottish independence.
Other currency-centered conferences were dismal failures.
These failures suggest that we should have less confidence in the supposed professional skills of technocrats--or at least less confidence than they have in themselves.
Markets for innovation and new ideas work poorly and governments can help to address those market failures.
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