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This approach allows higher consumer electricity prices to be phased in gradually, yet establishes strong, immediate incentives for adopting solar power.
A small and gradually rising carbon tax that funds a feed-in tariff system could win political support in the US.
That is one percentage point below the European Central Bank’s target of “below, but close to, 2%.”With the economy clearly operating below full capacity and unemployment above 12%, the risk of a further decline cannot be excluded, especially given downward pressure from a gradually appreciating exchange rate and a global context of negative growth surprises and subdued commodity prices.
The US and other coalition forces would have to withdraw gradually, beginning from the south of Iraq.
Alternatively, an executive wishing to unload equity could be permitted to sell the shares in the market, but only gradually, according to a pre-specified, automatic plan that would be self-executing (say, one-sixth of the number of shares the executive seeks to sell on the first trading day of each of the subsequent six months).
This suggests that the government’s policy of shifting gradually to a market-based exchange rate may have been better executed than generally believed; even the measures to support the stock market now look less futile than they did in July.
Gradually, the SCO shifted its focus to fighting Islamic radicals.
Republicans point to Europe and other parts of the world where a VAT rate started low and gradually increased to double-digit levels, exceeding 20% in many countries.
Given ambivalence among Arab moderates, there remains a chance to isolate the extremists and gradually build stable polities with broader participation.
Eventually, this will feed back into prices, but only slowly and gradually: Futures markets have oil prices rising to $60 per barrel only by 2020.
The EU was originally conceived to be an ever-closer association of sovereign states willing to pool a gradually increasing share of their sovereignty for the common good.
Smart taxes should be phased in gradually to allow households and firms time to adjust and for new technologies to come on stream.
There is a fundamental conflict between the call to give priority to European needs and the dictates of member states’ constitutions, which cannot be resolved by gradually shifting competences de facto from the national to the European level, or by expanding the EU budget.
Now, they are gradually coming to understand that the government has failed them.
If this continues, Europe will lose its influence in world affairs and gradually become irrelevant.
Over the course of the last year, Germany debated whether it should take on a more active international role, but the German public is adjusting only gradually to new expectations.
Most of world trade is still invoiced in dollars, but the euro has gradually emerged as a viable alternative – a strong currency backed by the hard-earned inflation credibility of the European Central Bank.
For example, the decadent House of Saud, backed by the United States, not only practices Wahhabi Islam – the source of modern Islamic fundamentalism – but also exports this fringe form of the faith, gradually snuffing out more liberal Islamic traditions.
There’s a diffuse but gradually sharpening trend for people to manage their own information online – not just their finances at Mint or Wesabe, but also their book preferences at Amazon, cellphone records (Skydeck), physical activities (Nike, Garmin, and the like), friendships and friends’ activities (Facebook/Friendfeed and others), travel (Dopplr and TripIt), health (Polka.com),
Indeed, I believe that “West” should gradually become a morally neutral word again.
But the same basic framework could be used by starting with a higher cap and gradually reducing it over several years.
Those changes should also be phased in gradually to protect beneficiaries and avoid an economic downturn.
Last year, the Fed’s mere announcement that it would gradually wind down its monthly purchases of long-term financial assets triggered a “taper” tantrum in global financial markets and emerging markets.
Austerity was bound to hurt Greece’s rigid economy – one of the least flexible in Europe – much more than Ireland’s, where flexible labor and product markets allowed massive job losses in the housing, construction, and banking sectors to be offset gradually by job gains in other sectors.
While the US economy is gradually healing, a lot more needs to happen – indeed, urgently – to restore its traditional vigor and vitality.
The UN refugee camps in the countries surrounding Syria are thus being gradually relocated to Germany.
Policymakers should pair fiscal measures to ameliorate the jobs and investment deficits now with a multi-year plan to reduce the long-run fiscal deficit gradually.
And, in opposition to the cliché that first there was memory, before memory was gradually erased and replaced by oblivion, she believed that, for the generation that survived the camps, oblivion came first.
This is economists’ polite code for the message that the US must gradually cut its budget deficit, while other countries – like China and Japan – must gradually let the value of the dollar fall and that of their own currencies rise.
The European Union, for its part, has gradually lost its hold on the public imagination.
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