Height
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US President Donald Trump, who has already reached the
height
of political power in his country, and former UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who aspires to keep rising in the ranks, have in common not just their crude nationalism, but also their apparent inability to control their sexual appetites.
On May 27, 1999, at the
height
of the NATO bombing campaign, Judge Louise Arbour of Canada, Mrs. del Ponte’s predecessor as the Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor, issued a warrant for the arrest of President Slobodan Milosevic.
Japan is deploying vast government aid and private-sector engagement reminiscent of its investments in China at the
height
of Japanese global economic power in the 1980’s.
Returning priceless artifacts of cultural significance purloined at the
height
of imperial rule might be a good place to start.
At the end of 2000, at the
height
of the Internet stock boom and just before the 2001 crash, the economists James Glassman and Kevin Hassett published Dow 36,000 .
At the
height
of the New Order’s political repression of Islam during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, a new pattern of thinking emerged among younger intellectuals.
At the era’s height, major financial players built vastly expensive collections of highly abstract modern art.
To be sure, no single problem compares with the Cold War at its height, but the sheer number and complexity of difficult issues is without precedent in modern times.
Autumn’s Known UnknownsNEW YORK – During the
height
of the Iraq war, then-US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke of “known unknowns” – foreseeable risks whose realization is uncertain.
Compared to these failures, Vladimir Putin’s achievements in Chechnya look like the
height
of success.
But the Ivory Coast’s dilemma is notable both because the country’s decline came from a relatively greater height, and for the lessons it holds concerning how states fail.
At the
height
of the Industrial Age, the epoch of mass production was reflected in a politics that revolved around the mass organizations of society.
How long will the American public tolerate the almost-daily doses of new evidence of conflicts of interest, starting with the licensing to Chinese investors, at the
height
of the presidential primary, of the Trump brand for use on spas, luxury hotels, and other real-estate projects?
In 1985 during the
height
of the Cold War, when negotiations were bogged down at the US – Soviet Union Geneva Summit, the negotiators were instructed by their leaders annoyed by lack of progress, “we do not want your explanations why this can’t be done.
Indeed, at the
height
of the fighting for control of the northern town of Rutshuru last October, the IRC teams that were stationed there decided to evacuate temporarily because the risk was simply too great.
As Jean-Claude Juncker, then Luxembourg’s prime minister, said at the
height
of the euro crisis, “We all know what to do; we just don't know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it!”
Then, without pause, he leaps once, twice, and I gasp at the
height
of his grandes jetés and then gasp again because his pointed toe is heading right for a barre .
Cultural pressure is already pushing people to favor particular traits in their offspring; in the United States, for example, buyers in the market for human eggs can shop for height, hair color, and intelligence.
A 100-meter belt of mangroves, for example, can reduce wave
height
by up to 66% and lower peak water levels during floods.
In 1930, at the
height
of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes declared that the standard of living in “progressive economies” would increase 4-8 times over the subsequent 100 years.
The private-sector financial balance swung from a deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 2006, at the
height
of the boom, to a surplus of about 6.8% of GDP in 2010 and about 5% today.
Fatima, a young woman from Mecca, sent me an email at the
height
of the Egyptian revolution: “Forget about the cries for freedom;I can’t even give birth without being accompanied to hospital by a mihrim (male guardian).”
Our efforts to establish a regional security and cooperation arrangement in the Persian Gulf date back to 1986, at the
height
of the war with Iraq.
Is it any surprise that at the
height
of the Fillon affair, the right-wing bosses and their phantom coaches turned (doctrinal and stylistic differences be damned!) to their benchwarmers, who were supposed to be waiting to enter the game?
The Fed began an aggressive policy of quantitative easing in the summer of 2008 at the
height
of the economic and financial crisis.
CHICAGO – At the
height
of the financial crisis, the Queen of England asked my friends at the London School of Economics a simple question, but one for which there is no easy answer: Why did academic economists fail to foresee the crisis?
Weimar Russia RevisitedThe phrase “Weimar Russia” first appeared about 13 years ago, at the
height
of the confrontation between then President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet that ended when Yeltsin’s tanks shelled the parliament.
At the
height
of the migrant crisis, it hoped, for once, to receive some.
Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the
height
of the Cold War to 20,000 today.
During the
height
of the Sunni insurrection, US forces devoted considerable efforts to closing borders and otherwise seeking to monitor and interdict elicit money flows from extremist groups in Sunni states to Iraq.
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