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But achieving it is not – in no small part because Europe's heavy reliance on bank finance stems from structural and cultural factors.
In both cases, Berlusconi won, but he has paid a heavy price.
The result was a heavy burden on consumers – and not much else.
Given this legacy of heavy investment by the Western public and private sectors in Russia’s future, the Putin government’s position on foreign and foreign-funded organizations seems puzzling.
Defensive barriers would not necessarily require heavy investment; they could be mounds of sand several meters high located along and near the shoreline.
Just last week, a Ukrainian freighter carrying heavy weaponry, including tanks, was hijacked.
Unless and until Israel pays a heavy price for its illegal activities in the occupied territories, it is hard to imagine a successful peace process taking shape.
When President Richard Nixon was intent on being re-elected in 1972, he put heavy pressure on then-Fed Chair Arthur Burns to “juice” the economy.
Should he wake up one morning and decide to impose heavy import tariffs on European cars, things could get very ugly, very fast.
The UN Secretary General led a steering group last year that determined that African agriculture needs around $8 billion per year in donor financing – roughly four times the current total – with a heavy emphasis on improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigation systems, and extension training.
The high food and fuel prices that prevailed until recently have taken a heavy toll on the finances of many African economies.
The reality is that Spain now faces the daunting challenge of boosting productivity amid persistently low inflation, a heavy burden of domestic and external debt, restrictive macroeconomic policies, and serious demographic challenges.
As long as capital consisted largely of factories, heavy equipment and raw materials, there was little fear that assets could or would move, so governments held all the cards.
It can and does move when the hand of government becomes too heavy or grasping.
The EU’s next five decades, on the other hand, will see the baby boomers moving into retirement, leaving a shrunken labor force with the heavy burden of supporting their elders’ health care and pension needs.
But rapid urban development comes at a heavy cost.
But they now bear a heavy responsibility.
But another reason behind North Korea's dynastic succession was that Kim Il Sung created a national ideology, Juche , that mixed communism with a heavy dose of Confucian values.
Another danger is heavy taxation.
It may turn out that most businesses are hit by heavy taxation of both varieties – so heavy that the economy cannot grow, as appears to be the case in Ukraine.
Keynes demonstrated that the main cause of bouts of heavy and prolonged unemployment was not worker encroachment on profits, but the fluctuating prospects of private investment in an uncertain world.
Likewise, defeating the Islamic State – another appropriately major US goal – requires heavy doses of diplomacy with the Saudis.
But there is another path that Turkey can follow, one that has been traveled by countries with historical burdens that are at least as heavy: ending the politics of denial and embracing acknowledgement, thereby opening the way for reconciliation and progress.
Regardless of the form it took, IT began to receive some heavy blows a few years ago (analogous to the crises that hit exchange-rate targets in the 1990’s).
Willingness to tackle inflation is impeded by Asia’s heavy reliance on exports and external demand.
Asia can avoid this problem and get on with the heavy lifting of pro-consumption rebalancing only by nipping inflation in the bud.
The atmosphere is filling with greenhouse gases from heavy use of fossil fuels.
With companies and institutional players too frightened to invest in the real economy, share prices have boomed, the top 0.1% can’t believe their luck, and the rest are helplessly watching as the grapes of wrath are “…filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
Only when the importance of the task warrants the effort do we shift gear and deploy the System-II heavy artillery.
Britain’s Cultural KowtowLONDON – You would think that the British, having practically invented appeasement, and paid a heavy price for it, would know better.
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