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For the first time in its history, Europe has a chance to establish its internal order on the principle of cooperation and equality of the large and the small, the strong and the weak, on shared democratic values.
But the islanders carefully cleaned the seeds to remove the toxin before eating them, and they did not consume large enough quantities to cause damage.
Even in the best of times, Lebanon muddles through with a politically dysfunctional government and an army that operates in the shadow of a large Shia-dominated militant organization.
By and large, America now has a relative disadvantage in manufacturing, while China has a relative advantage.
If, someday, America's creditors decide that they want to hold fewer dollars, it could set off large exchange rate movements, causing global instability.
Small economies closely integrated with their trading partners might set exchange rate targets, or fix their exchange rate to the currencies of their trading partners, but large and relatively closed economies like the US, EU, and Japan, do better to focus on their own business conditions, letting markets determine the exchange rate.
If successfully implemented, this agenda is likely to reverse global savings and consumption patterns that have underpinned large imbalances in recent years.
So today's pay-as-you-go system must be accompanied by a capitalized system that will be voluntary for a large part of today's employees and mandatory for new entrants.
This is on top of large increases in life expectancy already seen: in the United Kingdom, public-service pensioners who stop working at 60 can expect to spend about 40-45% of their adult lives in retirement, compared to about one-third for such pensioners in the 1980’s.
Starting with President Miguel de la Madrid in the early 1980’s, however, the PRI responded to free market critics of Mexico’s weak economic performance by selling many government-owned enterprises, partially privatizing the Mexican social security system, and becoming a strong advocate of a free trade agreement with its large “enemy” to the north, the US.
All reconstruction plans depend in the long run on the ability of Iraq to export oil in large quantities.
There are a time and place for tighter budgets and higher interest rates, especially when monetization of large government budget deficits fuels inflation.
For most of the twentieth century, large chunks of the world remained desperately poor for one or more of four related reasons: (1) criminal misgovernment; (2) lack of the machines to do anything useful and productive in the world economy besides subsistence agriculture and unskilled service work; (3) lack of the public education system needed to give people the literacy and the skills to operate the machines; and (4) barriers (legal and physical) that kept people where demand was low from selling the products of their work where demand was high.
Obviously, issues like reproductive rights and gay marriage have large economic consequences as well.
Moreover, an outside candidate must be likely to generate backing by a sufficiently large coalition in the parliament.
The report charges that as much as $5 million might go to one of these institutions in a year, but that a large portion is then siphoned off to her secret foreign bank accounts.
Mubarak’s two sons are said by the report to receive profit-making partnerships – without making any investment – in a large number of companies, including Phillip Morris, Skoda Auto, Movenpick, Vodafone, McDonalds, and many others.
Thousands lost their homes, and in the end, the disparity in wealth, already large, increased even more.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that in America people have to prove themselves continually, whereas in traditional Korean society people have only to prove themselves once, then they can be set for life due in large measure to the network of crony contacts that initial success will have provided.
Energy producers also started to use large quantities of CO2-neutral biomass on power plants.
Oil Dictator DominosLONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain to some and benefit others.
While US consumers have so far saved a large proportion of the windfall they have received through cheaper gasoline prices, the gains for households are starting to translate into higher levels of spending.
But, ultimately, emerge they will, as they have every time such a large fall has occurred.
King Abdullah pledged large numbers of new housing units, an important gesture in a country where young people, especially young married couples, cannot easily access the housing market.
Throwing money around won’t work in Yemen, which is too large and complex to be pacified.
Countries where there are large populations of refugees need enough funding to enable them to give refugee children access to local schools.
A very large share of these are US treasury bonds and mortgages.
This dynamic will be particularly important for France, given President Emmanuel Macron’s goal of consolidating the eurozone by providing it with more attributes of statehood, and his desire to push ahead with a two-speed Europe comprising a eurozone and a large non-euro fringe consisting of northern and eastern EU countries.
Unpredictable shifts in supply and demand will, of course, cause fluctuations within this trading range, which past experience suggests could be quite large.
A large number of pilgrims remain in detention, among them 15 teenage boys.
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