Gravity
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The depth and
gravity
of the current economic and social crisis in countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain present women with a new opportunity.
Financial markets and Russia’s government understand the
gravity
of the medium-term risks.
For, as inflationary fears in the BRIC giants grow, second thoughts about the shift in the world economy’s center of
gravity
are beginning to gain currency.
So, if the Fund is to resume its identity as a cooperative, it makes sense to shift its center of
gravity.
That is a serious competitive disadvantage to add to the penalty of being at a greater distance from the EU’s center of economic
gravity.
And the new geography of power implied by the shift in the world’s economic center of
gravity
from the transatlantic region toward the Asia-Pacific region does not conform to the conceptual map of twentieth-century – let alone nineteenth-century – geopolitics.
Unfortunately, Dubai ultimately proved subject to the laws of financial
gravity.
Despite the
gravity
of the situation, Hollande has three advantages: excessive austerity is unrealistic, given growing social opposition; public deficits are only a small part of Europe’s problems (and are not necessarily the source of the crisis); and a strong consensus has emerged outside of Germany to change tack.
Understanding the
gravity
of the economic crisis that erupted in 2008, he reacted swiftly and with considerable energy.
So far, traditional center-right and center-left pro-European parties have dominated it, with more extreme parties never really pulling the institution far from its center of
gravity.
Given the
gravity
of the situation, it seems foolhardy to continue to grant Russia the privileged partnership with NATO that it has enjoyed since the late 1990s.
In recent months, the Fund played an important role in resolving the crisis, in particular by assessing the
gravity
of the situation and providing countries with external finance.
As Israel’s political center of
gravity
has shifted to the right, if not the extreme right, one consequence whose long-term effects are not sufficiently appreciated is the growing alienation of Arab citizens, who represent 20% of the population.
Rockets into PloughsharesMOSCOW: The first law of scientific research - that it costs big money - is as immutable as the laws of
gravity.
In sum, the fact that the US trade balance has defied
gravity
for so many years has made it possible for the dollar to do so, too.
One answer that can be easily dismissed is that politicians simply don’t understand the
gravity
of the situation.
As the world’s center of economic
gravity
shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.
The weaknesses of global policy cooperation are especially worrisome in view of the
gravity
of the challenges that must be met.
She noted with
gravity
today’s migrations from poor to prosperous countries, the globalization of evil, the contradictions and conflicts of modernity, the angry terrorist response to it, and the contrast between a rational, pragmatic West and a more idealistic and superstitious East, prone to religious fanaticism and political extremism.
That insistence reflects the attachment of policymakers in the EU – especially in Germany – to a conceptual framework that has led them consistently to underestimate the
gravity
of the situation and recommend policies that make matters worse.
The
gravity
of Venezuela’s situation and its effects on the entire hemisphere have thus far proved insufficient to mobilize a majority of OAS governments to convince Maduro that the region’s democracies will not stand by idly while a totalitarian dictatorship and base for international organized crime emerges.
Environmentalists correctly note that producing heat for either process uses more energy than does overcoming
gravity
to pump up ordinary oil.
Alternatively (or coincidentally), Russia might discover a new business center of
gravity
in Central Asia and East Asia, though this would hardly be the “liberal empire” that Anatoli Chubais once envisaged, for it would be based on the mutual attraction of autocrats.
By contrast, the trouble with using military force to punish is that necessity and proportionality cannot easily be applied to the calculus: a slap on the wrist would trivialize the
gravity
of the offense, while large-scale intervention would wreak death and destruction on many who are innocent.
Over the past two decades, Turkey has made remarkable economic strides, transforming itself from Europe’s sick man into one of its most vibrant economies and a new center of
gravity
for trade in the Middle East.
Perhaps the most important change is the shift in the region’s political and military center of
gravity.
One Hundred Years of RelativitySTOCKHOLM – This year marks the centenary of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, his masterwork describing
gravity
as the curvature of space and time.
According to Einstein's theory, gravity, unlike all other physical forces known to man, is not quantized.
This mismatch between our understanding of
gravity
and the quantum theories of matter poses a huge conundrum for theoretical physicists, because it leads to mathematical contradictions.
Clearly, there is something about the combination of quantum theory and
gravity
that remains unknown, and our understanding of space, time, and matter hinges on unraveling this connection.
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