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But, apart from the political impossibility of nationalizing the whole economy peacefully, this approach suffered from the fatal flaw of ignoring the role of aggregate demand.
Though Ebola was known to be both contagious and often fatal, it was thought that only Africa’s impoverished rural population was at risk.
Pegged exchange rates had come under fatal speculative attack in many of these countries, whose authorities thus needed something new to anchor the public’s expectations concerning monetary policy.
Therefore, one of the “nudges” they recommend is to make organ donation as the default option in the case of a fatal accident.
But the marriage between Chinese savings and American consumption had a fatal flaw: it created non-repayable debts.
In 2017, there were 41.8 million flights without a single fatal passenger jet accident.
It has brought hope to millions of patients suffering from previously fatal organ failure.
Major disasters are often the result of a failure to think in such terms, as evidenced, tragically, by the fatal Grenfell Tower fire in the UK.
The response took one of two fatal forms in the interwar period: Socialists and communists chose social reform, while fascists chose national assertion.
Furthermore, the abrupt removal of Assad could deal a fatal blow to the Syrian state – an outcome that is in no one’s interest (with the exception of ISIS and other extremists).
In fact, the model was probably doomed from the start, owing to several fatal flaws that are embedded in its structure.
We have a just cause and many potential allies, but our failure to combine hard and soft power into a smart strategy could be fatal.
Indeed, the fatal flaw of free mobility in the EU is that it always presupposed a state to manage the movement.
So the regime is making a fatal error if it thinks that its old diversionary tactics will continue to provide it with immunity.
US President Barack Obama’s administration is now being forced to face up to the consequences of its own fatal mistake in Syria.
“BSE,” after all, calls to mind bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow disease,” a slow-developing but fatal degenerative disease.
States with high rates of cigarette smoking also vote Republican, as do states with high rates of fatal accidents from drunk driving.
The final misconception is that Hu might have demanded an explanation from Kim as to the causes of the fatal sinking of a South Korean vessel in late March.
Here, the Fed is making a fatal mistake, as it relies heavily on a timeworn inflation-forecasting methodology that filters out the “special factors” driving the often volatile prices of goods like food and energy.
If the banks went bankrupt now, the CBC would have to record the total amount – estimated at up to €12 billion ($15.7 billion) – as a loss, delivering a potentially fatal blow to the eurozone’s credibility.
In the view of Okinawans, they have been unfairly burdened since 1945 by the concentration of American forces on the island, which has resulted in fatal aircraft crashes and crimes against residents by US troops, including the brutal rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen in 1995.
In this context, just one fatal Osprey crash could trigger powerful anti-US sentiment on a strategically important island.
But this model suffers from two fatal weaknesses.
But Roy’s brutal murder (his wife was maimed, but survived) – together with the fatal stabbing of another atheist blogger, Washiqur Rahman, barely a month later – exposes another force at work in Bangladesh, one that is subverting the country’s tradition of secularism and intellectual discourse.
Facing Up to Chronic DiseaseMONTREAL – Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating stroke or a fatal heart attack.
More than six decades later, MNDs like ALS remain incurable and fatal.
Debt reduction is not fatal.
By 2008, in congressional testimony, Greenspan was willing to concede a fatal flaw in his thinking – deregulated financial markets can indeed go badly wrong.
Even so, the Commission’s proposal has fatal shortcomings.
Other diseases, such as sleeping sickness, transmitted by tsetse flies are fatal if untreated, as is leishmaniasis, if the parasites that cause it – transmitted by tiny sandflies – invade the liver and spleen.
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