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Heavily subsidized, the loans are attractive to borrowing governments, especially those whose credit ratings have plummeted.
There were similar fears recently when it became known that US-based money-market funds had lent heavily to European banks.
The Commission retains a monopoly on proposing new legislation, the character of which is heavily influenced by the president.
Loans were repaid in heavily depreciated rubles at a fraction of their value.
That will require more use of the soft power of attraction rather than relying so heavily on hard military power, as the Bush administration has done.
The responsibility to deal with them will merely fall more heavily on state and local governments, which will have to tackle them in innovative ways.
This would be the right policy if Germany was a freestanding country, but the eurozone’s heavily indebted member countries badly need stronger demand from Germany to avoid recession.
The heavily indebted countries will either fail to implement the necessary measures, or, if they do, they will fail to meet their targets, as collapsing growth drives down budget revenues.
The sanctions imposed on Iran are starting to weigh heavily on its economy, and a settlement to the dispute is a prerequisite for any effort by the two countries to cooperate on a peace deal in Syria or to address the threat posed by the Islamic State.
Romney understands that America’s strength relies heavily on free enterprise.
Another line of reasoning is that businesses that depend heavily on continuity – for example, hospitals, outsourcing firms in India, and stock exchanges – will invest in their own backup systems.
This has led energy-intensive European industries – including producers of glass, steel, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals – to invest heavily in the US.
And only cooperation can enable humanity to face up to urgent planetary challenges, including the destruction of biodiversity, the poisoning of the oceans, and the threat posed by global warming to the world’s food supply, vast drylands, and heavily populated coastal regions.
Keynes may have relied so heavily on such a simplistic characterization of human needs to make his point “that the economic problem is not…the permanent problem of the human race.”
For forty years, India invested heavily in a series of leading science-based universities, especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
The first, multi-stakeholder approach, originated organically from the community that developed the Internet, which ensured technical proficiency but not international legitimacy, because it was heavily dominated by American technocrats.
I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.
They might be proud homeowners on paper, but their mortgage was probably underwritten by quasi-governmental institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which in turn rely heavily on capital from China for their own refinancing.
For more than 20 years, the world’s major capitalist economies have been led to borrow heavily and unabashedly, in large by a new rule, adopted worldwide beginning in the 1970’s and 1980’s, that tied monetary policy to targets for price growth.
Indeed, financial markets are unlikely to differentiate between Greek debt and that of other heavily indebted economies, including Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and even Italy – the most recent eurozone member to come under speculative attack.
The bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 heavily damaged its economy, with serious consequences for neighboring countries.
Many Russian banks were heavily exposed in foreign markets, and therefore faced severe financial problems once the crisis hit.
The odds heavily favored the second outcome: global macroeconomic distress.
Meanwhile, its British counterpart, Tesco, is shifting away from the large hypermarket format and investing heavily in online systems.
Indeed, small shops’ advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.
In Libya, Europe finally had the will to lead, but it lacked the means, and still relied heavily on the US.
That has undermined the case for fiscal consolidation, which is so heavily favored in Europe.
The EU initially invested heavily in the development of machine translation, but has essentially abandoned the project.
The biopharmed plant would be pooled into a large harvest, where its pharmaceuticals would be heavily diluted.
Once again, the continued uncertainty weighs most heavily not only on Cuba, but on potential investors, who must assume the worst.
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