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Yet, once in office, Rabin initiated talks aimed at securing peace with Syria in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the strategic heights.
Fourth, feverish real-estate development throughout China continues to propel land prices to new heights.
Pakistan after BhuttoThe assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan’s state of turmoil to new heights.
At its introduction the euro reached impressive heights, like a high-tech IPO.
The Eurozone’s Delayed ReckoningNEW YORK – The risks facing the eurozone have been reduced since the summer, when a Greek exit looked imminent and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy reached new and unsustainable heights.
Today, it is the Digital Revolution that promises to lift growth to new heights.
A decade of excessively low interest rates has pushed asset prices to extreme heights.
This “commanding heights of the economy” model was rejected largely because it seriously under-performed, especially when state-owned sectors were protected from competition (as was the norm).
But if debt levels are at onerous heights as a result of easy-money monetary policies, it is not obvious that the solution to the problem is still more easy money.
Growth in China (which accounts for about 40% of global growth) fell to its lowest rate since 1996, even as its stock market soared to unsustainable heights.
Until the recent crisis, economists were talking up the “great moderation”: economic fluctuations were supposedly becoming milder, and many concluded that economic stabilization policy had reached new heights of effectiveness.
The strategic importance of the dramatic heights, overlooking most of the northern Israeli region of Galilee, is obvious.
In the meantime, the easing of sovereign interest-rate spreads provides little comfort to the growing army of unemployed in southern Europe, where youth unemployment has reached dramatic heights – close to 60% in Greece and Spain, and almost 40% in Italy.
By standardizing design elements like ceiling heights, fixtures, and flooring, construction companies can cut costs and raise productivity, as workers gain experience with repetitive tasks.
It is also the Bank’s most contentious, and with the release of Doing Business 2018 last October, the controversy surrounding the report has reached new heights, with some critics accusing it of obfuscation, data rigging, and political manipulation.
While Greece has reached the heights of corporatism, Italy and France are not far behind – and not far behind them is Germany.
For 45 years, bureaucrats had occupied its commanding heights, stifling enterprise under a straitjacket of regulations and licenses, erecting protectionist barriers against foreign trade and investment in the name of self-reliance, subsidizing an unproductive public sector, and struggling to redistribute the country’s poverty.
US and global equity markets would reach new heights, justified by stronger fundamentals.
Murder, kidnapping, and extortion have reached record heights.
Baker is a consultant for the two companies at the commanding heights of the Russian economy, Gazprom and Rosneft.
The Pyongyang PurgeTOKYO – During the Cold War, the term “Kremlinology” referred to efforts to understand what was taking place at the commanding heights of the Soviet Union – indeed, behind the entire Iron Curtain.
Why did the ratio of household debt to income soar to unprecedented heights in the pre-recession days?
It is still too early to know for sure, given that the stock market continues to reach new heights, while US bond yields have softened.
The violence of Tudor's rhetoric, directed against everybody who opposed him, rose to heights not seen since the Fascist era.
They tell their fellow citizens that if they do not understand the brilliance of the intellectual project offered to them, it is because they are of dull mind, and have not yet risen to the heights inhabited by the project’s proponents.
Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds, which had risen to unsustainable heights over fears of a eurozone breakup, fell sharply after the announcement.
To be sure, central bankers cannot know for sure when asset prices have reached unsustainable heights.
The long post-Industrial Revolution boom, which carried unskilled workers’ wages to previously unheard-of heights – keeping them within shouting (or at least dreaming) distance of the lifestyles of the rich and famous – is not necessarily a good guide to what will come next.
In Athens, exasperation has reached new heights, and the bitterness of the disputes has started to echo dangerously the rabid disputes over German reparations of the 1920’s.
A confluence of events is to blame, including the collapse of Russia’s social safety net at the very moment when petty crime, and thus imprisonment, was reaching new heights.
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