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Rejecting a deal with Israel in 2000, Fatah instead launched a violent revolt that has lasted ever since then, destroying the infrastructure built up in the Palestinian territories during the previous decade.
All this, and currency stabilization, made for an economic boom in Argentina that lasted until 1995, as foreign investors poured money in.
The proceedings lasted a total of 30 hours from the time the lower house officially announced its charges to the inauguration of Lugo’s successor, former Vice President Federico Franco.
When Bear Stearns’ creditors were bailed out to the tune of $30 billion in March, the rally in equity, money, and credit markets lasted eight weeks.
When the US Treasury announced a bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in July, the rally lasted just four weeks.
When the $200 billion rescue of these firms was undertaken and their $6 trillion in liabilities taken over by the US government, the rally lasted one day.
At the same time, efforts at nation-building along secular lines were reflected in Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabism and the Syrian Baath Party, resulting in the establishment of the United Arab Republic, a union between Egypt and Syria that lasted from 1958 to 1961.
Transforming the dollar standard into an SDR-based system would be a major break with a policy that has lasted more than 60 years.
That position lasted until 1970, when the US share of global GDP fell to its pre-war level of one-quarter.
Capital inflows produced a wealth effect, but only while they lasted.
With the qualified exception of the first, all riots were local, relatively minor, and lasted barely a day or two.
The fact that the two most recent presidents have not lasted indicates how difficult governing France has become.
The crisis has lasted so long that most governing parties (and technocrats) have been found wanting.
His tenure lasted just over three years, until, in 2012, he was forced at gunpoint to resign.
While they lasted, the booms that preceded these busts caused these economies to overheat.
More important, his presidency began a “revolution” from the political right – against the poor, the environment, and science and technology – that lasted for three decades, its tenets upheld, more or less, by all who followed him: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and, in some respects, by Obama in his first term.
The news lasted only 30 minutes, so everyone had to be absolutely quiet.
Excruciatingly laborious “stakeholder” consultations – of the type that lasted nearly ten years to construct the World Bank-funded Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric power plant in Laos – are not required of Chinese aid.
That system lasted for more than a century, until the 1840s, when Whig became synonymous with Liberal, and Tory with Conservative.
The resulting political balance lasted for almost a century, until the 1920s, when the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the alternative to Conservatism.
The new balance that it established between state and market set the stage for an unprecedented period of social cohesion, stability, and prosperity in the advanced economies that lasted until the mid-1970’s.
And the market-fundamentalist revolution that he helped to lead against Keynesian economics lasted for 30 years.
Historically, phases of resurgent radicalism have lasted 5-10 years, marked by greater aggressiveness against internal and external enemies.
The interruption associated with the Great Depression of the 1930s lasted several decades.
Yet the longest interruption in bond financing brought about by these shocks – which took place during the second half of 2015 – lasted just six months.
Furthermore, this period of monetary tightening had unexpected consequences; financial institutions like Citicorp found that only regulatory forbearance saved them from having to declare bankruptcy, and much of Latin America was plunged into a depression that lasted more than five years.
The first era of globalization, which lasted until 1914, was a success as long as economic and monetary policies remained insulated from domestic political pressures.
After WWII, America was able to use soft power resources and co-opt others into a set of alliances and institutions that lasted sixty years.
While the mirage lasted, the system could tolerate moderately competitive elections: it had become an illiberal democracy.
This chauvinist period, however, lasted for over six decades, and was marked by quotas for all those with not-quite-Russian-sounding names.
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