Height
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It was Hammarskjold who, at the
height
of the Cold War, first argued that an impartial civil servant could be “politically celibate” without being “politically virgin.”
Heat shortages at the
height
of this year’s bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
To be sure, at the
height
of the financial crisis, politicians were right to conclude that they could not rely on business as usual.
The record shows that the period 1950-1973, when government intervention in market economies was at its peacetime height, was uniquely successful economically, with no global recessions and faster rates of GDP growth – and growth of GDP per capita – than in any comparable period before or since.
There are also Putin’s repeated contacts with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who went to Moscow at the
height
of Greece’s recent showdown with the European Union, allegedly seeking $10 billion to print a new drachma.
Consider the Internet, a network of connected nodes invented in the 1960’s, at the
height
of the Cold War, to preserve the United States from total chaos after a nuclear attack on its nerve centers.
The success of US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in reaching the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, at the
height
of the Cold War, provides an instructive lesson.
Hayek introduced his proposal for privately issued competitive currencies at the
height
of the inflationary surge of the mid-1970s, which he attributed to excessive credit creation by central banks.
To be sure, at the
height
of the crisis, the combined effect of fiscal stimulus and massive monetary easing had a big impact in preventing a credit freeze and limiting the downward spiral in asset prices and real economic activity.
Bankers without BordersFRANKFURT – At the
height
of the financial crisis in 2008-2009, it seemed as if Western banks would pull up their foreign stakes and go home, leaving financial markets much more fragmented along national lines.
India's main forces, especially its armored forces, even now at the
height
of mobilization, remain deployed in a strategically defensive posture across the region outside Kashmir.
At its height, the polio epidemic caused 350,000 cases of paralysis in children every year.
The last thing that Europe needs is another sudden reversal, as we saw at the
height
of the Greek debt crisis.
On the contrary, they regard the idea of foreign forces elbowing their way into a Muslim country, and then preaching democracy and human rights, as the
height
of political foolhardiness.
To these solutions, Keynes would have added a fourth, one known to us today as the “Greenspan put” – using monetary policy to validate the asset prices reached at the
height
of the bubble.
At the
height
of the global crisis in 2009, many low-income countries experienced a slowdown in growth marked by falling exports, lower remittances from expatriate workers, and subdued foreign investment.
Consider, moreover, that at the
height
of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1973, Egypt’s armed forces stood at one million troops.
It is the
height
of folly to ignore the lessons of history.
And Merkel was at the
height
of her power on the international stage, having been deemed the new “leader of the free world,” supplanting the “very stable genius” in the White House, Donald Trump.
An encouraging illustration of the co-localization approach is the launch of a Renault project in Morocco (which, unfortunately, prompted a public backlash at the
height
of pre-election fever in France).
Moreover, banks and other financial institutions, which held large volumes of RMBS, were ill-equipped to measure the risk, and in some cases would have been bankrupted had they been forced to sell their holdings at the fire-sale prices prevailing at the
height
of the crisis.
The market prices of most RMBS rebounded as losses due to homeowners simply abandoning their properties were much lower than had been feared at the
height
of the crisis.
In the end, the US authorities even made a small profit on the assets that they had acquired at the
height
of the crisis.
During the
height
of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the US were the two main nuclear-armed states – accounting for the bulk of the 70,000 weapons then in existence.
Renewal of US-Chinese relations shifted the global balance of power at the Cold War’s height, and prepared the way for China to open its economy – the decision that, more than any other, has defined today’s world.
But, unlike the advanced economies, they maintained high GDP growth rates and relative stability even at the
height
of the crisis.
Even at the
height
of the famine, some Somali farmers were successfully growing and selling their crops.
Two years later, near the very
height
of the bubbles in the equity and housing markets, he declared that, “We can be pleased that the economy is on a good and sustainable path.”
He traffics in ethnic and religious divisiveness, hostility to neighbors (insisting again at the summit that the US will build a wall on the Mexican border and that Mexico will pay for it), and Manichean images of a Western civilization vulnerable to collapse at the hands of radical Islam, rather than at the
height
of unimaginable wealth and technological prowess.
The wave’s
height
reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars.
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