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Here the IMF made its fatal mistake.
The Lingering Shadow of Mad Cow DiseaseOptimists are proclaiming that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human form – always fatal – of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or “Mad Cow Disease,” is on the wane.
In order to end its fatal flirtation with jihadism and bolster stability, Gaza must pursue an economic and political deal with Israel that represses the temptation of war.
But they don’t disappear, and Darwin was so puzzled by this that he spoke of altruism as a problem that could prove fatal to his whole theory of evolution.
His love life is not seen as a human, romantic affair and a sign of youthful energy, but as a possibly fatal distraction, the ultimate proof of his “immaturity.”
And in a fatal tweet, Le Pen’s top aide seems to link himself to a cyber attack most likely conceived, if not executed, several thousand kilometers to the east.
As I argued in my Cass lecture, OMF is like a very powerful medicine, potentially valuable if taken in appropriate quantities in specific circumstances, but potentially fatal if taken in excess or when stimulus is not required.
India’s Data of DiscriminationNEW DELHI – Last December’s fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi triggered an unprecedented public outcry in India.
Faced with a rapidly growing health crisis, the British authorities – equipped with little scientific understanding of the disease, and under pressure from a powerful industrial lobby – made a fatal mistake.
But growing inter-state inequality may not be fatal to India's survival, for several reasons:The output data are not conclusive in showing any long-run divergence (although clearly capital flows--domestic as well as foreign--matter for growth);Internal labor mobility may well have some countervailing effects, which is not seen in data on output, but would be seen in figures on state incomes, if these were available;Indian states differed in their responses to reform, mostly because of disparities in their economic and social infrastructure--particularly education and health--at the time reforms were initiated.
The persistence of ISIS underscores three strategic flaws in US foreign policy, along with a fatal tactical flaw.
Continuing to stumble forward, however, would inevitably lead to a debilitating, if not fatal, fall.
A parasitic infection, it is often fatal when left untreated.
Nagana, too, is fatal if left untreated, leading to considerable livestock losses.
Oregon physicians may write a prescription for a lethal substance on the explicit request of a terminally ill patient, provided they can confirm the fatal prognosis, the patient’s decision-making capacity, and have informed the patient about any feasible alternative such as hospice care or pain-control options.
Children with high-risk cancers who receive dose-intensive chemotherapy have a greater than 80% chance of experiencing at least one severe, life-threatening, or fatal drug-related toxic event over the course of their treatment.
In the regulatory school where I was trained – the Bank of England – we were told never to use that fatal phrase, for fear of generating precisely the moral hazard we wished to avoid.
Some will say that the fatal mistake was allowing Greece to adopt the euro in the first place.
After the failure of President George W. Bush’s and Senator Edward Kennedy’s comprehensive immigration reform effort last spring, most observers thought the matter would remain dormant until 2009, since even touching it was potentially fatal for Democrats and Republicans alike.
In 2009, both Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of the 2007 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of Knox’s housemate, Meredith Kercher.
In developing countries, 200-300 million children of preschool age are at risk of vitamin A deficiency, which can be devastating and even fatal.
Drugs with serious adverse safety profiles are used to treat potentially fatal conditions – including various forms of cancer, inflammatory arthritis, and HIV – because they ultimately help more than they hurt.
This burden may not be fatal, but it should make the tax cut vulnerable to several objections.
The fatal divergences that are most frequently cited include differences in growth rates, job-creation, and unemployment rates, as well as dramatic disparities in current-account balances, all of which may be traceable to wide deviations in unit labor costs.
The big picture then was not the “anarchist plot” to destabilize empires, but the rise of exasperated nationalisms, coupled with the suicidal instinct of a decaying order and the fatal mechanism of the logic of “secret alliances.”
But long-term use of such medication can be fatal.
Even if a fatal calamity can be avoided, the division between creditor and debtor countries will be reinforced, and the “periphery” countries will have no chance to regain competitiveness, because the playing field is tilted against them.
But, ironically, this apparent strength is Trump’s fatal weakness.
American researchers in Bangladesh had shown that ORT could reverse fatal dehydration in cholera patients, but its effectiveness outside hospitals had not yet been proven.
This would provide temporary relief from a fatal flaw in the euro design’s until the member countries devise a more permanent solution.
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