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Consumer or market-driven demand – the kind most of us think of when we hear the word – is far less predictable, and therefore much riskier, than state-sponsored demand of the sort that landed a man on the moon.
Just as the landed gentry ridiculed the new industrialists who sullied farmland with huge factories, so some industrialists ridicule today’s knowledge workers, calling them hamburger flippers.
The Japanese authorities got lucky: When the pilot landed first in South Korea, the hijackers released their 129 hostages in exchange for permission to continue to Pyongyang, where they gained asylum.
While rejection of this presumption landed Michael Boskin, Chairman of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, in rough political waters, the presumption prompted a reporter to go and check the matter for himself.
Indeed, it was often more than a point of honor: failure to repay debt on time landed the debtor in prison.
Lesbos’s Ghosts, Europe’s DisgraceATHENS – In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees landed on Greece’s island shores.
Furthermore, in response to the outcry at the wasteful practice of shark finning, the European Union now requires that all sharks are landed intact, thereby preventing the removal of fins from sharks at sea and the disposal overboard of their less valuable bodies.
So it mobilized small-scale farmers, artisans, and small producers who shared the landed elite's belief that unfettered competition was harmful.
With home-ownership rates running at 80% in urban areas, household wealth, particularly in landed property, already exceeds that of many middle-income economies.
One prominent example is former Yukos Oil Company Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose expressions of doubt about Putin’s leadership landed him in jail and, later, exile.
One of the Apollo astronauts, James B. Irwin, who landed on the moon in 1971, said of his view of the earth, “It was so far away…a little ball in the blackness of space.
Moreover, the non-European refugees who landed on European shores this year are unlikely to be the last.
The US troops that landed on Normandy beaches in June 1944 were animated by a strong sense of mission.
It first landed on the warm and receptive shores of the Mediterranean, nurturing support for Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos.
His solution landed the housing market in the worst of all worlds: their managements knew that if the blank cheques were filled out they would lose their jobs, so they retrenched and made mortgages more expensive and less available.
Argentines today feel much like Dorothy did when she first landed in Oz – they are not in the safe and familiar “Kansas” anymore.
One learned religious teacher, for example, refused to believe that a man had landed on the moon.
Had she been politically active during the Nazi times, Merkel would have landed in a concentration camp.
But he landed softly, and his two sons have already had splendid careers.
At least her fate looks to be better than that of Ghosn, who was arrested in Tokyo when he landed there in a private jet, and now faces accusations that he misappropriated company funds and paid himself millions of dollars in hidden compensation.
People first landed on the Moon while I was a teenager, and I turned to other pursuits – journalism, the Internet, startup companies.
Shortly before his unmarked aircraft landed, Pakistan announced the capture in Quetta of Mullah Obaidullah, deputy to the elusive Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.
It has rehearsed quick missile salvos, showing that it could launch attacks on South Korea and Japan before any counter-strike could be landed.
The Driverless CityCAMBRIDGE – At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, the roulette wheel of innovation landed on something rather old-fashioned and unexpected: the automobile.
It has landed in force.
Trump is prone to taking out his frustrations on others – he is never to blame for his failures – and inevitably these landed on Bannon, who bragged more than was good for him about his power in the White House and asserted more than he should have.
Asia’s Patriotic GoreTOKYO – If a space alien landed in East Asia today, it would find a region shaped by rapid economic transformation, complex geopolitical dynamics, and deep historical animosities.
Europe’s Troika Should Grow UpPARIS – In early 2010, a group of men (and a few women) in dark suits landed in Athens.
Five days later, the North launched four ballistic missiles, one of which reportedly landed within 200 miles of Japan’s coastline.
In short, China’s regional exceptionalism has landed it in a strategic trap.
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