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While the Third Way lasted, however, another set of ideas, which originally seemed marginal and even absurd, gained ground.
Investigations lasted several months, before pressure from international organizations and public opinion forced the prosecutor to drop the charges.
In total, at least 23 of the 66 units currently under construction have encountered delays, many of which have lasted for several years.
But, as is often the case, what began as temporary has lasted.
During the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies.
But how can these impulses be reconciled with the strategic partnerships that India, Brazil, and others are currently forming, or with those – like the US-Saudi relationship – that have lasted for decades?
Felix Houphouet-Boigny’s rule lasted more than 30 years, until his death in 1993, when power passed to his handpicked successor, Henri Konan Bedie.
This relative prosperity lasted until the second oil shock of 1979, when global stagflation depressed prices for the primary commodities that comprise the Ivory Coast’s narrow export base, while rising interest rates increased the cost of servicing the debt contracted by the Houphouet regime.
It lasted 50 days and was heartily supported by Beijing residents and people all around the country, from all walks of life.
The current consensus is that the recession will be V-shaped – short and shallow – and thus similar to the US recessions in 1990-91 and 2001, which lasted eight months each.
The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have argued that the major financial crises of the last century typically lasted a half-decade or longer.
The troubling fact about the Great Depression is that it was severe, global, and lasted over a decade – and that it followed the collapse of an equity and real-estate boom, roughly as happened before the current crisis.
The late Rudiger Dornbusch - who used to write this column - used to say that unsustainable situations lasted longer than economists who believed in market rationality and equilibrium could imagine possible.
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin’s son Ivan became deputy director of a Rosneft department at 25.Russia’s new model of crony capitalism seems to be a deliberate effort to emulate the success of Russia’s ancient feudal system – a system that, after all, lasted for centuries.
From 1929 to 1933, real GDP in the United States fell 30%, and the unemployment rate reached almost 25%, while the depression itself lasted more than a decade – all large multiples of the recent decline, and of the somewhat larger decline that the intervention helped to avert.
The treatment lasted six months, and during that time she could not attend school.
The crisis has lasted for a long time, and people are tired.
In the United States, where the boom has lasted the longest, many observers have no doubt that the market is in a bubble.
The same is true of the Party's relationship with the peasants, who provided Mao Zedong with the soldiers and supplies he needed in battles that lasted decades.
Turkey’s “Zero Problems” ProblemISTANBUL – It was good while it lasted.
This was the time of the “great population scare,” which transformed thinking worldwide, no doubt contributing to higher commodity prices while the fear lasted.
A troop surge that lasted up to 2010 was designed not to rout the Taliban militarily, but to strike a political deal with the enemy from a position of strength.
Only the Third Republic (1875-1940) lasted longer than the current Fifth Republic.
In Europe, the recession has lasted six years and counting; in Chile, it lasted ten months.
Australia’s Millennium drought, which lasted from the late 1990s until 2012, undermined energy production, causing prices to rise.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has lasted far too long.
It will take many months to determine what went wrong and why the trial lasted a scandalous four years.
Under the Soviets, this stage lasted about 40 years.
While the borrowing lasted, and speculation took the forefront, everybody could dream.Russia is now back to the starting line.
More immediately, they are also challenging the government’s ban on street demonstrations – a vestige of the state of emergency that lasted from 1992 until 2011.
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