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What is the cause of this malaise and is there an idea that can mobilize future generations and revitalize the European vision of the past fifty years?
For fifty years, Brussels bureaucrats moved with precise, logical steps, limiting their goals, and setting firm timetables.
Fifty Years of Climate DitheringSYDNEY – In November 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson was presented with the first-ever government report warning of the dangers that could result from burning large amounts of fossil fuels.
Fifty years is a long time in politics, so it is remarkable how little has been done since then to address the threat posed by carrying on with business as usual.
A Son of the Cultural RevolutionLONDON – Fifty years ago this month, Mao Zedong launched China’s Cultural Revolution – a decade of chaos, persecution, and violence, carried out in the name of ideology and in the interest of expanding Mao’s personal power.
Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution, its crimes and sins remain unexpurgated.
Even though four prisoners have recently been released, fifty five of the seventy five remain incarcerated in deplorable conditions.
Fifty years later, President Yeltsin resumed the war when Chechens made a new bid for independence.
Fifty years after WWII, it remains incapable of an unequivocal recognition of an apology for Japan's war crimes.
The UN's achievements in the area of human rights over the last fifty years are rooted in the universal acceptance of the rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration, and in the growing abhorrence of practices for which there can be no excuse, in any culture, under any circumstance.
But even if the French do vote “No,” that will not solve the British problem: on the contrary, it will precipitate a major political crisis, in France and across Europe, concerning the future of the EU – the type of crisis that the British have spent fifty years trying to evade.
Fifty years later, it exports goods worth almost $600 billion, mostly electronics, machinery, transportation equipment, and chemical products.
We have a historical obligation to protect by all prudent means at our disposal Europe's unification process begun by our forefathers more than fifty years ago after centuries of hatred and spilling of blood.
Last year, indeed, I witnessed that impotence myself during the preparations of the UN’s anniversary summit, when attempts were made behind the scenes to adopt a concise document of a declaratory nature that would respond, in a fundamental way, to the changes that have taken place in the world over the past fifty years.
Over fifty years ago, the UN’s General Assembly proclaimed a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
Hunting the HiggsCAMBRIDGE – Fifty years ago, particle physicists faced an unexpected challenge.
Consider this: Fifty years ago, emerging markets and developing economies accounted for about a quarter of world GDP.
Fifty years after the launch of this daring mission, the tremendous achievement that emerged from it is fading from memory.
Fifty years ago, US President John F. Kennedy said that we should to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard – it tested the best in us.
Seven hundred fifty billion euros is less than 5% of the stock of US government debt held by the public.
Fifty years ago, this would have been equivalent to full membership.
Farewell, Flat WorldPARIS – Fifty years ago, the conventional wisdom was that rich countries dominated poor countries, and it was widely assumed that the former would continue getting richer and the latter poorer, at least in relative terms.
The Public’s BusinessCAMBRIDGE – Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman published an article in the New York Times that articulated what has come to be known as the Friedman doctrine: “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”
To see this, consider that the stock market in the United States did not crater when, in September-October 1918, the news media first started covering the Spanish flu pandemic that eventually claimed 675,000 US lives (and over fifty million worldwide).
From Moon Walk to Space WarsNEW DELHI – Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the Moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat.
Fifty Shades of YellowPARIS – Who are the Yellow Vests?
That you receive for your work on the estate a profit, let's say of five thousand roubles, while our peasant host, work as he may, cannot get more than fifty, is just as dishonest as my receiving more than my head-clerk, or Malthus getting more than a railway mechanic.
'You say it is unjust for me to receive five thousand while the peasant gets only fifty roubles: that's true.
'Kostya, do you know I have only fifty roubles left?''Well, what of that?
The rye – after he had so long held out for a certain price – was sold fifty kopeks a chetvert cheaper than had been offered him a month ago.
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