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This strategy will exact a heavy price, just as it did in Japan twenty years ago.
Indeed, by animating the economy’s animal spirits, the Trump administration has laid the groundwork for the private sector to do a lot of the heavy lifting.
Although the postwar population boom and heavy regulation meant that real estate prices in many countries went up more often than down, a sudden collapse of the property market--such as happened in Japan a decade ago--may dramatically reduce the value of most people's savings.
Citizens’ attention can be channeled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media’s heavy breathing).
Africa is paying a particularly heavy price.
The world’s “great powers” do not adhere to UN agreements meant to regulate industries that emit greenhouse gases and dump heavy metals in the sea and soil.
If it is led into a more adventurous strategy, its sustained policy of research and heavy investment in up-market steel products may be weakened.
In turn, Lukashenko has decided for economic reasons that his country needs EU support and can no longer depend exclusively on Russia without paying a heavy political price.
The Kremlin is considering a request from Belarus for $2 billion of credit, but, if this money is forthcoming, Belarus can expect to pay a heavy political price.
Officials argued that no heavy artillery fire was ever directed at civilians or hospitals, that any collateral injury to civilians was minimal, and that they fully respected international law, including the proscription against execution of captured prisoners.
The opioid epidemic, for example, has become a heavy burden for the US government (and thus taxpayers), as it has strained law enforcement and the health system.
As a result of policymakers’ heavy focus on the exchange rate, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has now accumulated more than $4 trillion in reserves – far exceeding the amount needed to cover any imaginable currency emergency.
The message to China’s new leadership is unmistakable: There has never been a more urgent time to get on with the heavy lifting of rebalancing and reform.
Food for Thought on GM CropsCOPENHAGEN – As the world continues to debate the impact of climate-change while seeking a new global treaty to prevent it, Kenya has endured a prolonged drought followed by heavy flooding.
The origin of the universal banking system goes back to a situation facing the 19th century Germany that was in some ways similar to that confronting the transition economies today: the financial needs of the rapidly growing heavy industries which -- in the face of the underdeveloped capital markets in Germany-- could only be met by commercial banks, many of which were founded by industrial leaders themselves.
Bond investors’ heavy reliance on credit-rating agencies, which tend to be laxer with powerful issuers, has not been fixed.
Europe, in particular, is paying a heavy price for underusing its fiscal capacity – a decision that has been driven by the political unpopularity of debt and fiscal transfers.
They seem condemned by their heavy debt burdens to years of stagnation or slow growth, widening inequality, and possible social strife.
Russia has the know-how, skilled engineering, and natural-resource base to become a global competitor in a range of major high-tech industries, including nuclear energy, commercial aviation, commercial space technology (including satellites and GPS), ICT hardware and software, electric vehicles, high-speed rail, petrochemicals, and heavy equipment for the mining and hydrocarbon sectors.
Why, people ask, should the allied countries pay the heavy price of war, and perhaps sacrifice the lives of their soldiers, when there is no danger to their national security or vital national interests?
The Soviet threat generated a readiness to defend oneself and to bear heavy burdens.
Leaders in some countries, particularly Belarus, are shifting economic output from heavy manufacturing to technology startups.
Policymakers shut down energy-intensive factories in the heavy chemical industry, promoted innovation, and took steps to address air and water pollution.
In the fission reactions that nuclear power generation relies on today, heavy elements such as uranium break into smaller ones, while in nuclear fusion small elements such as hydrogen stick together and form heavier elements (helium).
First, the nuclear fuel is not seawater, but a mixture of the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, a radioactive element that has been produced in small quantities for hydrogen bombs.
But those charges seem odd coming from countries with weak rule of law and heavy Internet censorship.
But, because the ban treaty goes beyond the NPT in two key respects, it has also drawn heavy opposition.
No other country in the past half-century has suffered so heavy a toll in human lives and physical destruction.
On the contrary, MAPs would put heavy demands on Ukraine and Georgia.
Recently, Facebook has been under heavy criticism for its cavalier record on protecting users’ privacy.
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