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Much has been written about the extraordinary bonuses paid to investment bankers during the
height
of the financial crisis.
It was considered a great achievement of the last government that it brought unemployment down to 5% at the
height
of an unsustainable boom.
Many feared that the example of the coup in Niger could encourage Nigeria’s military to move at the
height
of the country’s crisis in executive authority over President Umaru Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence.
An investor who bought German government bonds in 2013 has, by now, gained a 7% return, whereas a buyer of a Greek government bond issued at the
height
of the country’s debt crisis in 2012 would have earned a colossal 231% return.
It was then, with the fighting between Qaddafi’s forces and the rebels at its height, that the United Nations Security Council adopted its historic Resolution 1973 – the first time it had authorized a humanitarian intervention by “all necessary measures” against the wishes of a functioning state.
Specifically, we should be focused on better understanding the technologies and diagnostic techniques that China used to keep its (apparent) death toll so low compared to other countries, and to restart parts of its economy within weeks of the
height
of the outbreak.
For Europeans, it would be the
height
of folly to sit back and wait for the fateful tweet to arrive.
The US defense budget is now the largest it has been since World War II, barring a handful of years at the
height
of the Iraq War.
In China, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment estimates that hospitals in Wuhan produced more than 240 tons of waste daily at the
height
of the outbreak, compared with 40 tons during normal times.
In November 2008, at the
height
of the crisis, the US Federal Reserve started purchasing securities in the then-frozen mortgage market.
And US President Donald Trump’s televised address on March 11, in which he announced a suspension of most travel from Europe to the United States, brought the crisis to an entirely new
height
and plunged financial markets into unmitigated panic.
As former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi demonstrated at the
height
of the eurozone crisis, a stated commitment to do “whatever it takes” may well be the most powerful weapon in monetary policymakers’ arsenal.
To be sure, PEPP’s ability to target asset purchases, and without imposing policy conditions on the beneficiaries, makes it a more potent weapon than the outright monetary transactions scheme introduced by then-ECB President Mario Draghi at the
height
of the 2012 euro crisis.
He was born as Kirill Budniewicz in Moscow at the
height
of Stalin’s Great Purge, which took both his maternal grandfather and father.
The BBC’s Katya Adler reported from Brussels that EU officials spoke of “Varoufakis the sequel” – namely, “‘lots of pointless meetings’ with Prime Minister Johnson – as they believe was the case with Greece’s controversial finance minister at the
height
of the Greek debt crisis.”
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies,” quipped Lord Palmerston, who twice served as prime minister of Britain at its imperial
height.
At the
height
of the global financial crisis, the G20 repudiated trade protectionism and committed to pursuing simultaneous fiscal and monetary expansion.
Formed in the 1970s, at the
height
of the Cold War, it was supposed to serve as a forum for the major developed economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Where would we be today if all-out nuclear war had not been averted by the actions of Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, a lone Second Captain who, at the
height
of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urged restraint when the other commanders aboard his Soviet nuclear B-59 submarine mistakenly believed they were under attack by the United States?
When others were trying to pull apart the World Health Organization at the
height
of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the EU that led the negotiations resulting in an agreement to set up an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus.
With central bankers at the
height
of their reputation, it is not surprising that many would now want them to make a substantive contribution to the fight against climate change.
The AIDS crisis was at its height, with news outlets describing the virus as a “malevolent scythe” cutting across Sub-Saharan Africa.
His decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal with no thought for what would come afterward has proven to be the
height
of folly and will be very dangerous.
In 1982, at the
height
of El Salvador’s civil war, Colonel Mario Reyes Mena ordered his troops to set up an ambush just outside of the city of El Paraiso.
Under these circumstances, the outrage that Fox News commentators have been voicing over a few cases of looting in New York and other cities represents the
height
of moral hypocrisy.
At the
height
of the crisis, the popular view was that, without large-scale external help, Africa’s economies would be in grave danger.
And even earlier, at the
height
of the crisis in April 2009, my government worked with that of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to ensure that the world’s largest economies reaffirmed their commitments to achieving the MDGs despite the crisis.
After reaching the
height
of its fortunes in the late sixteenth century, it suffered a long decline, owing to shifting trade routes, new competition from poorer but more dynamic cities, and proximity to disease.
China, buoyed by its camera-friendly demonstrations of generosity at the
height
of the crisis, might step up to fill the leadership vacuum.
They should recall the way leaders in the United Nations initiated “peacekeeping” (which is not mentioned in the UN Charter) and expanded the use of the office of the Secretary-General to advance peace at the
height
of the Cold War.
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