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Gang members emerge out of dysfunctional and violent families, the historic and systematic socioeconomic marginalization of the region’s poor, and a culture of aggression.
Political polarization in the US and the United Kingdom is at or near historic highs, depending on the measure used.
But the yield curve in the major advanced economies is very flat, with both real and nominal longer-term rates at historic lows.
A Speech of Hope for GreeceATHENS – On September 6, 1946 US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes traveled to Stuttgart to deliver his historic “Speech of Hope.”
It is absurd to think that Europe’s historic nation-states are an answer to the globalized political, economic, and technological realities of the twenty-first century.
Globalizing the Security CouncilBRASILIA – The 1945 United Nations Charter represented a historic breakthrough in the pursuit of peace on a multilateral basis.
Indeed, in 2012, annual nuclear generation worldwide dropped by an unprecedented 7%, exceeding the previous year’s record-breaking drop of 4% and bringing total annual nuclear-power generation to 12% below its historic maximum, achieved in 2006.
Only the Czech Republic reached its historic maximum nuclear share last year.
Both the US and Latin America are still coming to terms with those historic divisions.
Europe's InvisiblesIn a historic turnabout, the new German government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is poised to offer citizenship to four million of its foreign (mostly Turkish) residents.
Not confined by any fixed orthodoxy, Indonesian Muslims have taken the historic step of welcoming dissident Muslim thinkers like the Pakistani Fazlur Rahman, the Palestinian Ismail al-Faruqi, and the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr, even when their ideas were unwelcome in their native lands.
The Rights of Apes – and HumansMELBOURNE – On June 25, in a historic vote, the Spanish parliament’s Commission for the Environment, Agriculture, and Fisheries declared its support for The Great Ape Project, a proposal to grant rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture to our closest nonhuman relatives: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.
In an historic referendum, they have decisively rejected the deal offered by their country’s creditors.
And the broader impetus behind this Economists’ Declaration, convened by The Rockefeller Foundation and now with more than 300 signatures, has placed global health and development at a historic crossroads.
Russians are justified, I believe, in their view that the West took advantage of Russia’s post-communist weakness to encroach on their country’s historic space.
That historic triumph depended on bringing in Sinn Fein politicians – leaders of the Irish Republican movement who in many cases could not be distinguished from the IRA, which bombed, shot, and maimed civilians in pursuit of its political goals.
Ten-year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.
Marginalized People’s Neglected DiseasesWASHINGTON, DC – When Pope Francis visited the United States in September, he delivered historic addresses to the US Congress and the United Nations General Assembly.
The pope’s historic visit to the US came at an important time.
In the 1980s, Volcker’s historic responsibility was to reduce inflation and prevent it from ever rising again to dangerously high levels.
Today, Yellen’s historic responsibility is to increase inflation and prevent it from ever falling again to dangerously low levels.
And even assuming that interest rates reach 1-1.5% by the end of 2016, they will still be very low by historic standards, both in absolute terms and relative to inflation.
Adding to the supply-side changes was Saudi Arabia’s subsequent historic announcement that it would no longer lead OPEC in playing the role of swing producer.
Trump’s subsequent turn toward diplomacy – which led to his historic summit with Kim – should also be applauded, though his administration has yet to achieve anything more than symbolic progress toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
But, for both sides, as well as external powers, the events of 1948 and what has followed – the occupation since 1967 of the remaining lands of historic Palestine – represents a tragic failure.
That compelled the Fed to keep interest rates at historic lows for an extended period, and rates were raised only gradually because of fears about the recovery’s fragility.
One reason for this historic mispricing of risk is that traders’ models went back only a few years, or at most a few decades (the period of the late “Great Moderation”).
It is easy to imagine what the euro’s failure would mean for the EU as a whole: a disaster of historic proportions.
In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism.
They understood the historic nature of the task and embraced the challenge.
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