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If economic growth seems to be falling far below the 6.5% target, the government will employ macroeconomic stabilization tools, despite the high heavy future costs, while working to prevent financial vulnerabilities from turning into systemic financial risks.
The half-century of a Soviet-style economy, exacerbated by the US trade embargo and related policies, took a heavy toll.
Turkey is already bearing a heavy burden of Syrian refugees, having absorbed more than one million since the crisis began in 2011.
Generals have promised an extended campaign to extinguish the terrorist threat, bringing in heavy armor and firing missiles at training camps to back up their pledge.
As it stands, non-performing loans are on the rise, owing largely to the weaknesses in heavy industry and real estate.
Anyone who has stood near a helicopter taking off will understand that a lot of energy is required to lift a heavy object vertically into the air.
Modern cars may be dangerous, but a dead battery or a broken rotor blade in a flying taxi would cause a heavy vehicle to fall onto a densely populated area.
He exerts heavy pressure on private television channels, and has blocked licenses and cable access for the independent television channel TVi, which has exposed the most serious corruption cases of his administration.
The burden of bailing out the country’s ailing financial institutions was too heavy for an already-indebted Cypriot state, and the International Monetary Fund was adamant that it would not pretend otherwise.
Yet governments continue to repeat the same mistakes, treating debt as a boon for long-term growth, rather than what it is: a heavy burden and a source of massive long-term risks.
Economic integration of the northern Tamil region will require heavy public investment in infrastructure, education, technology, and much else.
The IMF’s heavy engagement in resolving Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis adds another element of political complexity.
Chinese critics of the government, or even those who simply wish to report mistakes or wrongdoing, are silenced with a heavy hand: beatings in police stations, draconian jail sentences, or even murder.
It requires a heavy dose of institutional reform, which consumes financial, bureaucratic, and political resources.
While there was a “fifth generation” computer project and one on HDTV, the vast bulk of Japanese subsidies went not to new technologies, but to old-line, high-employment industries like agriculture, mining, and heavy manufacturing.
And the Russian government has agreed to sell Pakistan as many as 20 Mil Mi-35 “Hind E” heavy attack helicopters to aid in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.
Cronyism is rife, and Russia’s heavy dependence on oil revenues means that it will suffer whenever oil prices are low.
Even on the Golan Heights, where there is no Syrian presence, the settlements, located only a few kilometers from enormous Syrian troop concentrations, create a heavy burden, because, in the event of war, the Israeli army would be forced to evacuate them quickly, as was the case during the Yom Kippur war of October 1973.
Japan’s heavy burden of atrocities during World War II effectively erased from America’s popular memory the Immigration Act of 1924 and other federal legislation aimed at excluding the Japanese and the Chinese from the United States, as well as racist state legislation, such as California’s 1913 Alien Land Act.
And now, their weight is perhaps becoming too heavy for the Party hierarchy to bear.
China, for its part, has realized that its heavy dependence on coal is causing such devastating pollution and smog that it is leading to massive loss of life, with life expectancy down as much as five years in regions with heavy coal consumption.
Krugman’s heavy pounding of Chicago School economics goaded Cochrane, a professor of finance, into some bad-tempered counter-punching on the university’s Web site, much of which consisted of a personal attack on Krugman’s scientific integrity.
If other pollutants – such as nitrates, fluorides, pesticides, and heavy metals – were considered, the figure would be significantly higher.
The events of recent months have exacted a heavy short-term economic toll, but they have potentially far-reaching long-term implications.
To be sure, most taxes entail heavy "excess burdens": the cost is significantly greater than the value of the revenue raised because of potential taxpayers' myriad attempts at evasion and avoidance.
Fighting against the Taliban has been heavy at times.
More likely, they will bolster China’s determination to escape from its continued partial dependency on US finances and trade, and lead the Chinese authorities to double down on a military build-up, heavy investments in cutting-edge technologies, and the creation of a renminbi-based global payments system as an alternative to the dollar system.
The price for this absence is heavy in the international arena.
A fundamental shift from heavy reliance on coal to clean energy must be accomplished.
In the near term, the most likely counterweight could be a liberal coalition with a heavy component of former members of deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) – that is, those who have not been discredited by their association with Mubarak.
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