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It was no longer laughable to say that he could be the Republican nominee.
American-European cooperation in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf can contribute to longer term stability in that region, which cannot be indefinitely based on American supremacy.
The longer they wait, the more the raft gains speed.
Both may be necessary, because, while average fuel economy has made slight gains in recent years, the longer distances that people are traveling have offset any improvement.
In the longer term, we must transform our energy system even more fundamentally.
The longer Germany takes to recognize this, the higher the price it will have to pay.
In the longer term, however, the attention the decision has attracted could spur wider use of the SDR.
Despite these challenges, China’s leaders anticipate that, in the longer term, the renminbi’s inclusion in the SDR basket will help to bring about the currency’s steady appreciation and, by serving as a kind of certification of credibility, support its continued internationalization.
Thus, a growing proportion of the workforce – often below the radar screen of official statistics – is losing hope of finding gainful employment, while the unemployment rate (especially for poor, unskilled workers) will remain high for a much longer period of time than in previous recessions.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has recently emphasized the importance of an additional channel: the confidence channel, through which the Fed’s commitment to maintaining generous monetary conditions for longer could improve private spending.
In Germany and other member states, economic growth no longer seems certain.
This aristocratic tradition of standing above the narrow strains of ethnic nationalism may be the best argument to hang on to royalty a little longer.
A US that moves toward isolationist nationalism will remain the world’s most powerful country by a wide margin; but it will no longer guarantee Western countries’ security or defend an international order based on free trade and globalization.
Such resilience will be tested over the longer run, though, owing to the fiscal and external imbalances, which were unaffected by the data revision.
But they must also recognize that political backlashes and setbacks are inevitable – and thus that the road from vision to reality may be longer than expected.
Sachs is concerned with how such a system’s rules will shape the world’s economies in the longer run.
The US is pushing for longer copyright protection for published works, music, and films.
It also wants technical changes that would effectively mean much longer patent terms for pharmaceuticals, make the approval process lengthier for generic drug makers, and extend protections for biologic medicines.
In this sense, the US demand for longer terms of patent and copyright protection is arbitrary, because they are not founded on a clear-cut case for enhanced economic efficiency.
But the European Union’s restrictions on financing and trade are unlikely to last much longer in any case, especially now that the United Kingdom’s hawkish views will no longer shape that conversation.
But, because most of those countries had handed over monetary policy to the European Central Bank and could no longer print their own money, there was a heightened risk of default.
Her second term in office (1993-96) was longer and better, but her government again fell early, owing to charges of mismanagement and corruption.
(Americans think the French, with their shorter working hours and longer summer vacations, already put family ahead of work.)
Even as development improves conditions, however, reducing carbon emissions would become increasingly important over the longer term as the impact of climate change become more severe.
Newly displaced people need food and emergency support, but the longer refugees are away from their homes, the more they need access to institutions that enable self-determination.
Today, however, diversity no longer yields unity – the e pluribus unum that graces America's coins and banknotes.
But it’s no longer September 2007, and US unemployment stands at 9.4%, not 4.5%.
Based on past experience with quotas around the world, the predictable result would be reduced quality control and longer delivery times, because exporters would have no reason to compete for new customers.
It is hard to believe that he will stay on much longer at the World Bank, and it is time to start thinking more closely about the future of that institution.
During the emergency period, fiscal retrenchment and austerity are unavoidable; but, in the longer term, the debt burden will become unsustainable without growth – and so will the European Union itself.
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