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On top of the damage from the global economy’s woes, the eurozone was faced with a looming Greek government bankruptcy.
Cultivating EnergyFrom climate change to volatile oil prices, all signs point to a looming global energy crisis.
At the dawn of a new Arab era, it is up to them to build new, open political systems that can head off the looming threat of escalating crises.
The reformers believe that such reforms are the only way for Saudi Arabia to survive the threat of violence, instability, and national fragmentation that is looming on its horizon.
These scholarly gatherings have helped to foster academic interest in the ethical considerations of drug resistance, but represent only a tiny fraction of what is needed to help the world safely navigate the looming moral minefield.
With their traditional policy tools all but exhausted, the authorities had to be exceptionally creative in confronting the collapse in financial markets and a looming implosion of the real economy.
The second most serious problem is the looming long-term explosion in the costs of America’s health care programs.
But we are facing a looming challenge.
Climate and CompetitivenessBERLIN – As Europe’s debt crisis fades, another economic disaster seems to be looming – the price of energy.
Addressing them successfully would allow the country to generate the savings needed to meet its huge looming public-investment requirements: expansion of productive infrastructure (roads, ports, and airports) in order to remove severe bottlenecks to faster non-inflationary growth; unprecedentedly large planned investment in oil exploration and electricity generation; and forthcoming international sporting events (the World Cup and the Olympic Games) that Brazil will host in the next few years.
Looming particularly large over the next few months are escalating geopolitical conflicts that are nearing a tipping point, beyond which lies the specter of serious systemic disruptions in the global economy.
A moment of truth is looming for both sides of this co-dependent, and ultimately dysfunctional, economic relationship.
Looming over everything is the impending demographic crisis of Western Europe's social-insurance state as its population ages.
With Brexit looming, the UK has no choice but to redesign its future trading relationships.
He cannot run again and the looming presidential election promises to be close.
That is what voters want, that is the fashion, that is what looming social security deficits require.
The looming tenth anniversary concentrated minds.
The deep reason for this particular argument is the EU's looming enlargement, which will take the membership from 15 to 25 countries in May 2004.
Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
The threats looming over today's world, however, are to the threat of communism as metastasis is to an isolated tumor.
But inside the industrial core of the world’s rich countries there is already concern about these looming revolutions.
Making Old Age Less SafeIt is almost an optical illusion: looming on Japan’s horizon, and on Europe’s and on America’s, is a pensions crisis.
Indeed, though perhaps not on a par with global warming and looming water shortages, obesity – and especially childhood obesity – nonetheless is on the short list of major public-health challenges facing advanced countries in the twenty-first century, and it is rapidly affecting many emerging-market economies as well.
Cyber-warfare is a looming threat as well, and non-state actors and groups are creating conflict and chaos from the Middle East to North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Today, another technological revolution is looming.
This reflects not only worries about energy and shared security concerns, but also the need to head off any looming crisis in the Middle East that could plunge large parts of the world into turmoil, if not armed conflict.
A Looming Anti-Depressants CrisisThe widespread prescription of drugs for troubled minds has always ended badly, right back to the days of opiates and cocaine, up through bromides, barbiturates, and tranquilizers: all proved to be highly addictive drugs, but only after years of denial did doctors admit that this was so.
On the Richter scale of drug disasters, the looming anti-depressant crisis appears to range between 7 and 11, where thalidomide rates a 10.
With Brexit looming – and losing support at home – Britain can’t afford any further deterioration of its “special relationship” with the United States.
He could discern the looming industrial explosion of the 20th century, when a few major companies drove technical innovation and made electricity, chemistry, transport, communications, and computers key parts of everyday life.
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