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As for what lies ahead, three immediate approaches have emerged.
On the other hand, because it required significant and expensive short-run cuts in emissions by industrial countries, it threatened to impose large immediate costs on the American, European, and Japanese economies.
The war in Afghanistan bleeds more lives and treasure into the inhospitable terrain of that sad land, with little immediate chance of whatever might constitute sufficient success to allow America and its allies to quit.
The immediate aim was to secure the British position by extending control over the whole of Lower Mesopotamia, although Baghdad was always seen as the ultimate prize.
The irony, of course, was that most of the 15 old member states had refused to give the new members full and immediate access to the Western job markets.
The immediate causes of recovery are not difficult to discern.
The financial impact was immediate: in anticipation of monetary easing, and after it began, the euro fell sharply, bond yields in the eurozone’s core and periphery fell to very low levels, and stock markets started to rally robustly.
While the long-term implications are still hazy, the immediate consequences are clear.
The immediate beneficiaries would be Catalans, the people of Northern Ireland, and maybe the Scots (who would in this manner snatch an opportunity out of the jaws of Brexit).
The trouble is that today’s best climate models show that immediate action will do little good.
On the other hand, the experts rated immediate responses to climate change at the bottom of the world’s priorities.
The parties in Montreal should rule out more Kyoto-style immediate cuts, which would be prohibitively expensive, do little good, and cause many nations to abandon the entire process.
The reversal of sought-after economic diversification, and the reduction of “modernization” to little more than a slogan, caused no immediate concern.
But even a weakened Russia will still be a strong power in its immediate neighborhood.
These long-forgotten battles seem suddenly very immediate once again.
If so, the immediate prognosis for the global economy is not good.
The immediate problem is a credit crunch not so much in China as in the United States and Europe, where many small and medium-size importers cannot get the trade credits they need to buy inventory from abroad.
This is because the Joint Plan of Action to which the parties agreed in November 2013, while addressing virtually all of the West’s immediate nuclear concerns, does not map out the necessary pathway to Iran’s normalization.
After all, as Mao Zedong told Edgar Snow in 1936, "It is the immediate task of China to regain all our lost territories," explicitly including "Formosa."
Moreover, these bonds are priced as spreads on the government-bond yield curve, implying that QE will have an immediate impact on enterprises’ financing costs.
In the US, for example, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes trigger immediate Federal assistance.
But some leaders see moral obligations beyond their immediate group and educate their followers.
The US preempted this process by backing the military rebellion and insisting on Assad’s immediate departure.
Russia argued that America’s insistence on Assad’s immediate departure was an impediment to peace.
And where this does not suffice, banks will need immediate capital injections by their governments.
In fact, there is plenty of room for everyone, and the sooner China feels comfortable with the Republic of Korea as an immediate neighbor, the better for everyone.
What is the immediate and longer-term outlook for US monetary policy?
By then, Obama would have almost doubled the government debt-to-GDP ratio from an inherited safety zone of 40% to a danger zone of almost 80%, a level not seen since the immediate aftermath of World War II.
One proposal – immediate tax deductibility for capital investment – should be part of a permanent (and overdue) corporate-tax reform, but Obama has proposed it as a one-year measure to induce businesses to move capital spending forward to 2011.
An employee anywhere in the world can pick up a phone and get an immediate answer, instead of working through a translator.
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