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Instead of Russia's borders draining his country's economy, he envisions Russia as a transit point between east and west, and also as an engine of growth for countries in search of the heavy industrial equipment Russia makes.
But the heavy industries in which many were employed have now closed, and unemployment is widespread.
And yet, despite Cargill’s heavy reliance on stevia in its promotional material, EverSweet does not contain a single leaf of the plant.
Given this top-down approach, all initial efforts have been focused on creating a global climate treaty, leading to a heavy focus on global negotiations while neglecting concrete de-carbonization efforts by industrialized and industrializing countries.
As China shifts its economic model away from heavy infrastructure investment and bulk manufacturing, many of these small industrial cities will lose their core industry.
Dithering over Greece and key national governments’ devotion to austerity began to exact a heavy toll last year.
The question is whether China’s leaders – preoccupied with challenges like financial instability stemming from risky shadow-banking activities and a heavy burden of local-government debt – have the policy space to put the economy on a sounder footing.
Kaczynski’s government suffered a heavy defeat.
It also claims to have captured heavy mortars, two ZU-23 anti-aircraft autocannons, five DShK heavy machine guns, and dozens of AK assault rifles.
With a heavy and stifling bureaucracy and the prospect of a dynastic political succession, sheer lack of hope drove hundreds of thousands of Egyptians onto the streets.
If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega-storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.
That is a heavy burden for one man.
According to case studies of 17 countries, the world’s leading economic powers (America, Germany, Japan), as well as a wide range of other countries, are pursuing fiscal policies that inflict heavy burdens on future generations.
As a result, generational imbalances - and the lifetime net taxes of future generations - will continue to pile up, until the tax burden will be too heavy to be imposed.
The first is the climate event or trend – for example, heat waves, heavy rain, or gradual drying.
Russia is no longer implementing the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which led to the removal of tens of thousands of tanks and heavy weapons from Europe in the years after 1990.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea was met with heavy economic sanctions from Europe and the United States, weakening Russia’s ties with the West and leaving the Kremlin eager to strengthen ties with China.
These structural adjustments are aimed at reducing China’s dependence on heavy industry and manufacturing exports while fostering domestic consumption, promoting higher-tech activities, and strengthening the services sector.
One reason why a dynastic succession is taking place is that Kim Il-sung created a national ideology, Juche, which mixes communism and autarky with a heavy dose of Confucian values.
The heavy artillery of monetary and fiscal stimulus is being wasted on attempts to short-circuit balance-sheet repair.
The strategic rebalancing toward Asia that Obama worked so hard to advance may be thrown into reverse, dealing a heavy blow to Asia and the US alike.
But Blair is under heavy fire from his parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee for having overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
The then 64-year-old artist was head-butted, but escaped serious injury thanks to heavy police protection.
After independence in 1947, India adopted an inward-looking planning system that focused on heavy industry.
China's heavy floods in recent years are partly the result, it seems, of the excessive melting of mountain snows on the Tibetan Plateau, which was caused by higher temperatures.
These wars are inflicting heavy punishment on precisely those peoples who have held fully free and fair elections in the region, while eroding the legitimacy of Israel’s democracy.
With private investment remaining weak, owing to the corporate sector's heavy debt burden and banks' huge volume of bad assets, the government has clearly decided to jumpstart the process through infrastructure spending.
Countries that deliberately avoided world markets through heavy protectionism lost out in the past twenty years.
Following the end of the Rwandan genocide, the heavy burden of rebuilding a devastated society was borne by the country's women.
Whether they will fight after heavy bombing depends on the success of the air campaign.
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