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The movement’s frequent likening of Israel to apartheid South Africa is especially nasty, given that many South African Jews fought against apartheid, sometimes from within the ranks of the African National Congress.
For the US, on the other hand, soaring military expenditures and frequent tax cuts have created the economic conditions for trade deficits, and ineffective adjustment programs have only exacerbated the impact of trade on jobs.
Without a strong and internationally coordinated response to the sinking of the Cheonan, such reckless provocations are not only likely to continue, but may become more frequent.
But at times like these, when issues such as North Korea's bid to acquire nuclear weapons and a possible US-led war against Iraq provoke heated debate in the international community, the Japanese public is also engaged in frequent, daily exchanges about what Japan should do.
But what about the more frequent Sunni attacks?
They shield countries from frequent and unsettling volatility, be it economic, political, or social, and they reduce the risk of costly shocks.
Lying and LeadershipCAMBRIDGE – This election season has been marked by frequent charges of dishonesty.
As climate change leads to deeper and more frequent droughts, the resulting water shortages will require new, sometimes difficult, solutions that go beyond futile attempts to placate the public.
Preventable disease outbreaks, rare as they are in Western countries, are all too frequent occurrences in a region that is home to the world’s largest number of unvaccinated children.
Suddenly, non-fraternization with Germans--the American rule--was replaced by frequent contacts aimed at re-education, especially of the young.
This follows from Hamas leaders’ frequent statements since the 2008 Gaza war that they do not want to provoke another Israeli attack, which could cost them their governing position.
We are drawn to heartwarming stories of an understanding teacher who sees a student’s potential and helps her get into university, or a frequent diner who funds a kitchen worker’s dream to start his own restaurant.
Continued greenhouse-gas emissions on the massive scale of today would have devastating consequences, including more frequent and more intense weather events.
Local lawlessness has led to gang warfare and persistent illegal tapping into the pipelines to steal oil, leading to further massive oil spills and frequent explosions that kill dozens, including innocent bystanders.
Worse, given their frequent unwillingness to accommodate one another’s interests, impasses – even clashes – become likely.
But such research is inconclusive for several reasons, not least that public schools face incentive problems of their own, leading to low effort, absenteeism, and frequent strikes.
Implementing the plan will prove to be a cost-effective solution for countries saddled with responding to frequent cholera outbreaks.
One thing that has struck me in the course of my frequent visits to Kurdistan is that the Kurds are a multilingual people.
I was working for a very large American bank at the time, and I can still remember joining frequent transatlantic conference calls to discuss Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s most recent Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007 alone, nearly two-thirds of the countries in the region experienced an acute energy crisis marked by frequent and extended electricity outages.
Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.
Another frequent cause of companies’ blind spots is historic bias, or what psychologists call an “anchoring bias” – the assumption that something that was true in the past will continue to be true in the future.
Dogged by a small, disorganized, yet wily and persistent opposition that follows his every step and publicizes his frequent missteps, the President's popularity ratings have plummeted from above 80% in 1999 to half that today.
While it cannot be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.
The fact that heat waves like the one in Russia become more frequent and extreme in a warmer world is easy to understand.
Extreme rainfall events will also become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate, owing to another simple fact of physics: warm air can hold more moisture.
China’s financial system is failing in that respect, owing to frequent administrative and political intervention.
Macroeconomists celebrated the “Great Moderation” of the global business cycle, with recessions seeming to become milder and less frequent.
Even when the frequent appearance of asset-price bubbles was acknowledged, most believed that efforts to detect and prick them at an early stage would be impossible – and potentially harmful.
A second area of consensus has emerged from frequent debates on the potential conflict between nominal and real economic convergence between the EU accession countries and the current member states.
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