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The booms typically lasted 7-8 years, though the one that began in 1933 spanned almost two decades.
Cold War IINEW YORK – The Cold War lasted four decades, in many ways both beginning and ending in Berlin.
It has been said that this global war against extremism will be the task of a generation, a war that could go on for years, much like the Cold War, which lasted for decades.
Each deceleration episode lasted for about two months, at which point the correction in equity prices began to reverse.
In that case, rather than bringing the hoped-for end of the Great Recession of 2008, a downturn that has lasted too long and caused too much suffering, 2012 may mark the beginning of a new and more frightening phase of the world’s worst economic calamity in three-quarters of a century.
As Cohen learned the hard way, working for Trump is not easy, which is why so few – aside from his daughter and son-in-law – have lasted long in his White House.
The experiment failed, and the country suffered a deep economic and social crisis, with a recession that lasted from 1998 to 2002.
America's founding fathers wrote a Constitution that has lasted over 200 years.
In Europe, wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants lasted for nearly a century and a half.
The West must address its great TFP slowdown, which has lasted since the late 1960s.
The war lasted less than a week, but its legacy remains pronounced a half-century later.
It lasted more than 50 years, cost a quarter-million lives, and displaced six million people.
The current expansion, one of the longest since World War II, has now lasted 114 months since the upturn began in June 2009.
But there were two problems: centrist politics did not always take root, and it seldom lasted.
And Free Flows the NileNEW DELHI – For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half-minute: “President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office….”
As long as the Cold War lasted, US administrations consistently favored military strongmen and civilian dictators in the name of fighting Communism – anything to keep the left down, even the kind of left that would have been regarded as simply liberal in the democratic West.
In Sweden, the decline in GDP lasted for three years, and the economy was then lifted by a dramatic increase in exports, owing to the sharp depreciation of the krona, with annual industrial output rising by around 10% on average over two years.
Argentina also recovered access to international credit markets following a settlement with so-called vulture funds over a debt dispute that had lasted more than a decade.
Their unsuccessful stint in power following the military coup in 2010 appears to have taught them that they should wait to see if their political allies can break Thaksin’s electoral stranglehold, which has lasted 12 years and five general elections, before deciding what to do next.
The challenge is massive: a 10% unemployment rate that has lasted for 20 years, with more than 20% of people under 25 unemployed, and five million people - nearly a quarter of the working population - employed by the state.
Still, the illusion was nice while it lasted, and Obamamania may contain an element of nostalgia, as well as hope.
But because Norwegian voters rejected a referendum on EU membership 11 months later, the EEA has now lasted for 24 years.
Instead, those operations lasted eight more years, and US troops remain in Iraq to this day.
After all, that mandate lasted for more than a decade.
Many of us realize and understand that America's fantastic economic success - a success story that has lasted for more than a century - has made you scarcely interested in the rest of the world, particularly during your electoral campaigns.
Eighteen months later, the magic most certainly has not lasted.
When Internet Boom Went BustWhile the internet boom lasted, nothing seemed able to deflate the bubble.
Norway’s EU relationship via the European Economic Area, also designed as a brief transition, has now lasted 24 years.
The shock was regional rather than global, with the market impact concentrated in the United Kingdom and Europe; and the volatility lasted only about a week, compared to the previous two severe risk-off episodes, which lasted about two months and led to a sharp correction in US and global equity prices.
Neither agreement lasted long.
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