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For example, forty years ago, when fear of nuclear proliferation was new, my teacher and friend Vassili Leontief, who invented the macroeconomic table of inter-industrial flows, argued that the best indicator of an illegal arms program is massive electricity consumption.
Forty years ago, Bhutan’s fourth king, young and newly installed, made a remarkable choice: Bhutan should pursue “gross national happiness” rather than gross national product.
America no longer has to be the protector of Western Europe, as she was during forty Cold-War years; but she still has to be the moderator of European imbalances.
Forty years after the Six Day War peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems as distant as ever.
For forty years, India invested heavily in a series of leading science-based universities, especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Forty of the countries studied still exhibit high or very high levels of gender inequality in most aspects of work – especially labor-force participation rates, wages, leadership positions, and unpaid care work – as well as in legal protections, political representation, and violence against women.
The Living Legacy of HelsinkiVIENNA – Forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded with the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a historic triumph of cooperation over conflict that set the stage for the end of the Cold War.
Forty million Americans lack any form of health insurance; many more face losing their job-linked coverage in company layoffs.
I have known Blix for over forty years.
Forty years is a long time, but it is worth looking back and reminding ourselves of how much Galbraith and his readers had to be uncertain about.
Forty years ago, a great American statesman, Dean Acheson, looked back at the excitement he felt in helping to build the post-World War II order.
Forty years later, a counterrevolution took hold, reflecting sharp criticism of fiscal activism.
The ties that bind us together were frayed by forty years of Soviet domination, but this did not fundamentally change these states’ European character.
Absent serious reform, both are on tract to go into deep hibernation as the Bank for International Settlements did for forty years prior to its recent resurgence.
Forty years ago, after legal segregation of blacks and whites formally ended in America, the United States was confronted by similar problems.
The OPEC Oil Embargo at 40DENVER – Forty years ago, the United States and much of Europe learned difficult lessons about their dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.
John Paul II had a specific task that he implemented during his nearly 27-year papacy: following through on the changes in the teaching and behavior of the Catholic Church that were started by the Second Vatican Council over forty years ago.
European Defense and European SolidarityPRAGUE - Perhaps it is the experience of a man who endured forty years of Communist rule, and the Nazi Occupation before that.
He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.
Europe’s Ethical EggsPRINCETON – Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens.
Forty years ago, I helped to create one such organization, Helsinki Watch, which evolved over the next several years into what is known today as Human Rights Watch.
The world’s output grew by a factor of forty, water use by nine, energy use by thirteen, and the emission of carbon dioxide by seventeen.
These are only a few of the differences between West and East European students in that springtime of rebellion of forty years ago.
Forty years after rich countries promised to dedicate 0.7% of GDP to aid, their commitments remain at less than half that level.
In forty years, a demographic implosion within China, the consequence of its one-child policy, will make European and Japanese concerns about aging populations look trivial.
Forty years later, those words on March 22, 1968, by Jean Baudrillard – then an assistant professor at Nanterre University – still sound right.
The Long March from ShanghaiSHANGHAI – Forty years ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China.
Forty years later, the US-China relationship has grown exponentially to become arguably the most important and complex bilateral relationship in the world.
Forty years ago, the Chinese worried about a Soviet plot to encircle their country.
China’s Boldest ExperimentBEIJING – Forty years ago this month, China’s leaders set the country on a path of reform that has produced the most dramatic economic transformation in history.
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