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Forty years ago, for example, the US spent roughly 4% of its GDP on finance.
Many men attend yeshivas (Orthodox Jewish schools of higher instruction) until the age of forty, thus failing to accumulate valuable human capital applicable to the secular market place.
After all, forty cents out of every euro of GDP is a lot to fight about.
Europeans spent the previous forty years slaughtering each other on a scale unprecedented in human history.
Forty years ago, France’s GDP was about 9% larger than the United Kingdom’s; today, it is smaller.
Forty years after leaving New Zealand in the lurch to join the European Economic Community, the UK might soon have less access to the European market than New Zealand does.
No Time for NostalgiaFrance and Germany have every reason to celebrate the miracle of their friendship, sealed forty years ago by the Elysée Treaty.
Forty years ago, Charles de Gaulle said "Non" to Britain's request to join the European Community.
Forty years later, Charles Kindleberger applied the theory in a global context, emphasizing the problems that arise in a world lacking coordinated and consistent monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policies, as well as an international lender of last resort.
China’s Myth-Busting MiraclePARIS – Forty years ago, on December 29, 1978, the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released the official communiqué from its third plenary session, launching the greatest economic-growth experiment in human history.
Belindia Has SpokenSANTIAGO – Forty years ago, the Brazilian economist Edmar Bacha named his country Belindia: a combination of prosperous and modern Belgium and poor and backward India.
These decisions have had devastating consequences for forty years.
Forty years ago, the US opening to Mao’s China shocked Japan and all of Asia.
Forty years ago, South Korea had a comparative advantage in growing rice.
Nuclear VigilantesLOS ANGELES – Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
The present government is a coalition of the Liberal Democrats, Japan's ruling party for forty years, and the Socialists, Japan's longtime ineffectual opposition.
“Health for All” Forty Years OnGENEVA – Forty years ago last month, thousands of delegates from 134 countries gathered in Kazakhstan, then a part of the former Soviet Union, to adopt the Declaration of Alma-Ata.
Yet it was a British social scientist (and Labour Party politician), Michael Young, who forty years ago wrote a much debated book entitled The Rise of the Meritocracy .
Small members of the EU have more votes than would be proportional to their population, and they have enjoyed this voting premium for forty years.
EMBARGO 6 SEPTEMBER 2004More than forty years ago, Turkey applied for associate membership of the European Economic Community.
Forty years after the 1979 election of Margaret Thatcher confirmed the ascendancy of various forms of monetarism, the intellectual pendulum is swinging back to the Keynesian idea that fiscal policy – decisions about government spending, taxation, and borrowing – offers the most effective instruments for managing demand and stabilizing economic cycles.
Forty years after the revolution that ousted the Shah, Iran’s unique political-religious system and government appears strong enough to withstand US pressure and to ride out the economic difficulties.
Forty percent of that cohort did not even know the election was taking place.
Forty years ago, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, though often inflexible and dogmatic, helped to break the proverbial glass ceiling.
In the boxes sat the same kind of ladies with the same kind of officers behind them as usual; the same kind of people, heaven only knew who; the same gaily dressed women, uniforms, frock coats; the same dirty crowd in the gallery; and in the whole of that throng, in the boxes and front seats, some forty real men and women.
When he had gone some forty paces he stepped behind a spindle bush with pink and red earring-shaped blossoms, and paused, knowing that he could no longer be seen.
while one of forty was un jeune homme.
He smiled ironically as he glanced at the raven trotter of the char-a-banc, deciding that that horse was good for nothing but a promenade, and could not do its forty versts on a hot day at one go.
The Justice's Court is forty versts from my house.
Levin went to the table, paid the forty roubles he had lost betting on the aces, paid the club bill to an old footman who stood by the door and who seemed in some miraculous way to know what it came to, and, swinging his arms in a peculiar way, passed through the whole suite of rooms to the exit.
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