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The historic influx of new entrants into the global work force, each aspiring to Western consumption standards, is simply pushing global growth past the safety marker on the speed dial.
By contrast, in the US – where a president typically earns $400,000, and President Donald Trump donates his salary to various causes – public trust in government is near historic lows.
If ordinary people are to observe this historic event, buses will have to transport them.
It would be a mistake of historic proportions to delay it.
When you discuss this issue with our American allies, they fail to understand why an EU of 350 million people hesitates to absorb less than 8 million people in order to mend historic fences.
Europe has one – and only one – chance to manage this historic transition.
Quite simply, the historic responsibility for the planet’s future rests on the shoulders of us all.
If the Europeans continue to look inward, allowing accountants to dominate discussions of Europe’s future, they will miss a historic opportunity – one that will directly affect Europe’s security.
Recently, the Armenian Diaspora has been calling on Turkey to face-up to its past and recognize its historic crime.
But, despite almost half a century of membership in the Council of Europe – ostensibly a guardian of human rights, including freedom of speech and conscience – Turkey still punishes a crime against national honor any suggestion that the Armenian genocide is an historic truth.
The revolutions of 2011 are a historic opportunity for all Arabs.
China portrayed the 1997 restoration of its sovereignty over Hong Kong, following more than a century of British administration, as righting a historic injustice.
But, just as the wealth created by European integration helped to reconcile historic divisions, such as those that once roiled Northern Ireland, a genuine economic community in Southeast Asia can provide the dynamism needed to address deep-rooted domestic disputes effectively.
On his second trip to China, which followed Kim Jung Il’s historic meeting with President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea last June, North Korea’s leader was taken to Shanghai by Premier Zhu Rongji and shown its stock exchange and the vast Pudong development zone.
The old historic Left had lost its ideological purpose by the 1980s-- not because it failed, but because it succeeded.
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The historic volatility of oil prices reflects these psychological shifts as well as changes in objective reality.
It was also a celebration of the sense of shared experience that defined the Tunisian revolution – and the many other historic protests and revolutions that erupted in 2011.
Given all this, the recession will lead to a sharp increase in corporate defaults, which had been very low over the last two years, averaging 0.6% per year, compared to an historic average of 3.8%.
Anyone who has been paying attention has known for some time that the historic changes taking place today did not originate in Germany.
Europeans avoided a disaster of historic proportions in last month’s French presidential election.
Moreover, the GDVC figures show that historic trends in Vietnam’s trade ties have remained intact;Vietnam continues to run a large trade deficit with China and a surplus with the US.
At 15%, America’s tax rates on dividends and capital gains are at historic lows, while the profit share of national income is at an all-time high.
In the unlikely event that circumstances change, Obama could step in as an active peacemaker, giving his trip to Israel historic significance as a turning point in Israel-Palestine relations.
As historical scholarship documenting the crimes of the Nazi regime continued to pile up in the 1980s and 1990s, the German political establishment reached a consensus that the country’s historic guilt and responsibility must be a central part of its national story.
While China would inevitably cover a substantial share of these costs, owing to its geographic proximity and historic ties to the North, it needs reassurance that it would not be left to shoulder the burden alone.
It would be a colossal and historic error to believe that the attraction of populist and simplistic messages emanating from the extremes is solely the result of the economic crisis.
Another frequent cause of companies’ blind spots is historic bias, or what psychologists call an “anchoring bias” – the assumption that something that was true in the past will continue to be true in the future.
Overcoming historic biases requires questioning an industry’s taboos.
Heir to the historic Persian Empire, Iran has the region’s second-largest GDP and population (behind Saudi Arabia and Egypt, respectively), and Saudi Arabia worries that a possible agreement – resulting in sanctions being lifted – would allow Iran to revive its economy and extend its influence.
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