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The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 30 miles from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
A successful attack or accident at the Indian Point power plant near New York City, apparently part of Al Qaeda’s original plan for September 11, 2001, would have resulted in 43,700 immediate fatalities and 518,000 cancer deaths, with cleanup costs reaching $2 trillion.
More recently, they misjudged the immediate impact that the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote would have on its economy.
This would be not only fair, but it also would teach an important lesson to those who bankroll dictators – a lesson that is likely to have an immediate positive impact worldwide.
In the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, I was lucky enough to meet young idealistic Russians like Nemtsov.
Similarly, much like the misleading “ticking time bomb” scenario has served to rationalize torture, the “imminent massacre” argument is used to justify immediate intervention.
Whereas her two immediate predecessors greatly tarnished the Fed’s reputation by looking the other way as massive risk was accumulating – and massive fraud occurring – within the financial sector, Yellen restored the Fed’s reputation.
We took up arms only to protect ourselves and our property from an immediate extreme Islamist threat that tolerated no dissent.
And when the president does go overseas, the US press often demands that he bring back tangible bounty, in the form of export deals, or assurances on some other immediate “deliverable” – in short, enough transactions to justify the expense.
An immediate consequence is that developing countries are turning into service economies at substantially lower levels of income.
But Russia is also now extending its grasp of energy markets beyond those of its immediate neighbors.
Gone are the 1990’s, when for a brief moment in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War, the world looked as if it would be permanently peaceful and unconcerned with power.
While he has seemingly lost touch with the French people, he is deeply aware of and wounded by his declining popularity, and no one should underestimate his ability to reinvent himself with a new government after the municipal elections and greater distance from his immediate entourage.
Nonetheless, it is worth considering Macron’s broader goal, which extends well beyond immediate concerns such as Trump and Brexit.
To ensure that the post-Grexit eurozone’s integrity faces no further immediate threats, China must join international partners in establishing a fully credible firewall, via the IMF.
The nuclear threat posed by North Korea is serious, immediate, and requires a bold response.
Had such controls served as a bridge to an immediate, substantial IMF program and financial sector clean-up, all might have been well.
Local communities initiated immediate decontamination of sensitive areas outside evacuated zones (for example, kindergartens and schools), in parallel with efforts by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to develop the technology for remediation within these zones.
Shaping a shared vision of the world should start with Europe’s immediate neighborhood.
It is regularly argued (to the point of having become conventional wisdom) that cheap and easy portfolio reconfiguration, technical trading strategies, and investors’ moves from one sector to another force managers to pay too much attention to immediate financial results.
The immediate ethical issue facing us is the real harm inflicted on unsuspecting subjects through a vast array of indignities, adverse events, injuries, and death.
In 1991, after a 16-year conflict, the UN managed to broker a truce between the two parties, which included an immediate ceasefire.
To secure the immediate removal of the Soviet missiles, the US considered two main strategies: a naval blockade or an air strike.
Despite immediate attempts by his lawyers to locate him, his whereabouts remained unknown for days.
The “Impact” Illusion in ScienceSTANFORD – Government-funded scientific research runs the gamut from studies of basic physical and biological processes to the development of applications to meet immediate needs.
It would certainly behoove the Assembly to give serious and immediate consideration to the country’s deplorable socioeconomic conditions.
France’s most immediate problems are anemic growth and inadequate job creation.
Yet, to its immediate south, energy resources and raw materials are plentiful.
The immediate risk is continuing stagnation, or recession, in Europe.
The immediate cause of this disaster is clear: the rains have failed for two years running in the dry regions of East Africa.
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