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Today, 50 years and 1,500 nuclear explosions later, we have an historic opportunity to learn from the failures of the past.
And I, like many others, will not try to hide my satisfaction at seeing the smug scoundrels of the FN break down and resume speaking in their historic register, with their authentic voice, which is one of hatred and mob rage.
The new pact between France and the UK could be a historic step toward rationalizing defense spending rather than toward demilitarizing Europe.
An amendment to Argentina's Constitution giving international treaties constitutional force lay behind an Argentine court's historic decision this month, reversing amnesties adopted under military pressure in the 1980s for atrocities committed during the country's 1976-83 "dirty war."
The 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan is, of course, a highly exceptional event – an event so rare that its probability cannot be well assessed with models based on limited historic data.
A solid majority voted against independence in their historic referendum last month.
If the political appeal of anti-trade policies proves durable, it will mark a historic turning point in global economic affairs, one that bodes ill for the future of American leadership.
Both took comfort from the political cover provided by the European unification effort – an historic initiative aimed at securing the continent’s well-being through closer economic and political integration on the basis of credible rules and effective institutions.
Most likely, they will end up getting off too easy, especially compared to the real victims of this historic tragedy – the most vulnerable segments of the Greek population, who will become much worse off, today and for many years to come, as jobs disappear, savings evaporate, and livelihoods are destroyed.
But Italy is resuming its historic role as a source of Europe’s best ideas and leadership in politics, and also, most surprisingly, in economics.
In doing so, they are passing up an historic opportunity to take the lead on nuclear disarmament.
Two other fundamental and inter-related security challenges in the region – the Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing danger of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) – also must be resolved in order to ensure that the Middle East’s historic transformation leads to security, stability, and prosperity.
Another highlight was the historic approval of a sophisticated cancer treatment, CAR T-cell therapy, which uses a patient’s own immune cells to attack tumors.
Finally, rounding out my list was the historic Universal Health Coverage Forum held in Tokyo, where global leaders gathered to discuss how to improve health-care access.
While prices of oil, metals, and food rose very significantly after 2003, reaching historic highs sometime between 2008 and 2011, nobody expects similar price increases in the future.
The differences between radicals and conservatives in the Party are now sharper than those between the Party and its historic rival, the Kuomintang.
These calls will eventually form the mainstream, and the liberal forces within the Party will undoubtedly respond by seizing a historic opportunity not only to reverse the verdict but to move toward discarding the Communist system.
The rise of Islamic fundamentalism poses another historic challenge, though one that is far more inchoate than any that the US has faced before.
Bill Gates is doing this, with historic results, for public health.
With a clear SDG plan, the World Bank would find partners to help it fulfill its core, historic, and vital mission.
He argued that, in historic terms, “the absurd anarchy of European international organization” has been “the most propitious terrain imaginable for the full expression of racism.”
And, despite her candidacy’s historic significance, Clinton’s performance with white women voters was no better than Obama’s performance in 2012.
In fact, Tibet is ruled by China, and half of its historic territory has been incorporated into other Chinese provinces.
Such transfers of wealth might be justified as a one-time historic bargain, in which young and old share the burden of transition.
These include startups, IT companies that use local talent, organic-agro small and medium-size enterprises, export-oriented pharmaceutical companies, efforts to attract the international film industry to Greek locations, and educational programs that take advantage of Greek intellectual output and unrivaled historic sites.
Ghebreyesus’s candidacy presents the WHO with an historic opportunity, which its Executive Board should seize on January 25.
By adopting an aggressive, revisionist stance, Putin has made a historic and strategic mistake.
And historic infrastructure-spending gaps continue to widen: by 2020 or 2021, annual per capita transportation-infrastructure spending will reach £1,900 in London, but will be less than £300 in the northeast.
The RRR now stands at 18.5%, a historic high, even in global terms.
The spectacular and historic global economic boom of the past six years is about to hit a wall.
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