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Trump on the WarpathNEW YORK – Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran and North Korea in similarly vitriolic terms.
Fifteen years on, the Taliban controls considerable territory, and Trump has just ordered an increase in troops.
They were admitted to the EU only fifteen years after the fall of communism, and not all of them had previous experience with democracy.
Moreover, only fifteen years ago, eight of the ten new members had state-controlled economies, which meant that a period of painful transition toward a market economy was followed by, or overlapped with, sometimes painful reforms necessary for EU membership.
Much of American foreign policy is now in the hands of people who have been out of international diplomacy for fifteen to twenty years, and so continue to sing from the old Cold War hymn book.
Fifteen years ago, when I wrote Globalization and its Discontents, I argued that this “shock therapy” approach to economic reform was a dismal failure.
Fifteen years later, Jensen wrote a paper about the costs of excessive sensitivity of pay to performance.
Weak Growth in the West - A Threat to Eastern Europe's Strong GrowthFRANKFURT: Current economic trends in Western and Eastern Europe are back to a familiar pattern of the past fifteen years: divergence.
If the ongoing process of European integration were to stop at the gates of today's NATO, the consequences of such a rupture, regardless of the form it assumes, and regardless of whether they befall us in three years or fifteen, could cost much more than the two World Wars Europe "donated" in this century combined.
Since September 11th, Saudi Arabia has felt intense pressure to explain (and explain away) its links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network because fifteen of the nineteen plane hijackers were Saudis (indeed, the majority of prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are said to be Saudi citizens) and Saudis are often viewed as a major source of al-Qaeda’s finances.
Certainly, everyone anticipated fifteen years ago that the current state of both economies would be much better.
In fact, since 1985, fifteen Latin American presidents – most without legislative majorities – have not finished their term.
Fifteen years ago, the Renault-Nissan Alliance evaluated the environmental impact of its vehicles over their life cycle.
The per capita income of the new countries is less than half of that of the fifteen members they are joining.
Fifteen years prior to onset, a positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed amyloid-beta being deposited in plaques in the brain itself.
At present, all fifteen member nations of the European Union are represented on its Board.
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.
So, fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world remains more in need of new thinking than ever.
Fifteen months later, Europe and the IMF, by endorsing unqualified fiscal restraint, fail to recognize that the European crisis calls for differentiated policies to achieve multiple and different objectives.
Even before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, America's image as a rights proponent had been tarnished, particularly in Europe, by its continued practice of capital punishment and, to a lesser degree, by its high incarceration rate--approximately seven times the average in the European Union's fifteen member countries.
The SADC’s regional plan establishes a timeframe for policy implementation over the next fifteen years that takes these constraints into account, focusing on macroeconomic policies, debt problems, and establishing a stable and secure investment climate.
For example, rich countries’ voters in Europe could perhaps be persuaded to engage in a much larger bailout for Greece (one that is actually big enough to work), in exchange for higher payments in ten to fifteen years if Greek growth outperforms.
Growth of per capita income decelerated between 1902 and 1930 and declined further in the last fifteen years of British rule until 1947.
Fifteen years later, no country has done that.
Fifteen years ago, the world adopted the Millennium Development Goals to achieve specific targets for improving human welfare in the new century.
After four failed bailout plans in the past fifteen months (Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, and Russia), the IMF is verging on a fifth failure.
This is of vital importance, especially in light of the fact that Asia’s populations are still booming: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will see an increase in the next fifteen years from 1.4 billion to 1.73 billion inhabitants, while China’s population will grow from 1.3 billion to 1.42 billion.
Acceptance of the Protocol in the last year by such influential African countries as Algeria, South Africa, and Libya gave the final and sudden impetus to the Court's establishment, and the critical threshold of fifteen ratifications was reached shortly before the New Year, when the Comoros signed on.
Fifteen of the world’s 20 biggest trade fairs (measured by indoor exhibition space) are held in Germany, and the country tops the list in world commodity exports.
Fifteen years ago, an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in New York City induced near panic, before a massive infusion of funds into the public health infrastructure turned the tide in the United States, and public interest waned.
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