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In this sense, the looming prospect of a full-blown Italian debt crisis could prove beneficial by focusing European minds.
First, there are errors of omission – cases in which blind spots in the consensus prevent economists from being able to see troubles looming ahead.
South Korea’s leaders do not have to look far to find out what will happen if they fail to address looming challenges quickly and resolutely.
Addressing the looming retirement crisis in the US requires increasing worker coverage in employer-based plans.
The current obsession with government deficits and budgetary constraints should not deflect attention from the need for reforms that address the looming retirement crisis confronting many Americans.
Twenty years ago, in the weeks that preceded Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, many observers saw signs of a looming crisis.
Meanwhile, with investment in Gazprom’s core activity – production – steadily declining, a crisis is looming, one that requires the stewardship and steady hand of the EU.
The attempt by opposition parties last year to impeach South Korea’s President Roh Moo Hyun on the flimsiest of excuses;Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s inability to pass legislation through a parliament controlled by the opposition Kuomintang;Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s stalemated first term and the repeated rumors of looming coup attempts against her: each bears testimony to a form of democratic paralysis in Asia.
What the Kremlin will care about is the looming choice of Chechnya's president.
Russia's oligarchs are undoubtedly unpopular, and Khodorovsky's arrest was evidently aimed at boosting Putin's prospects in the looming parliamentary and presidential elections.
But in this looming war of all against all, it is Iraq’s small community of Assyrian Christians that is at risk of annihilation.
The most urgent is the looming war between America and Iraq.
Looking ahead, China and India are the looming giants of Asia, with their huge populations and rapid economic growth rates.
But, despite its forward momentum, the Chinese economy faces looming risks in the coming decade.
Faced with looming chaos and increasing devastation in Europe and beyond, I say to myself, and must say aloud: Benalla is a small fish.
Let us hope that the looming debate goes well.
Looming over them both is the country’s relationship with Russia.
Despite the looming challenges, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been slow to implement the promised economic reforms.
These have been renewed, not only due to the looming expansion of NATO which partly excludes Russia from Europe's security order, but also because of the swift, brutal development of Russian capitalism, which makes Russia unique in Europe and Asia.
And looming in the background is a mountain of debt that makes markets nervous and increases the system’s vulnerability to destabilizing shocks.
PARIS – With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue.
It will be easy to interpret future looming crises as minor road bumps that can be absorbed.
But with tectonic shifts looming in the global macroeconomic landscape, this is no time for complacency.
Berlin, Birthplace of Modern AsiaNEW DELHI – By marking the Cold War’s end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics.
Europe’s economy is dead in the water, and the dreaded specter of deflation is looming ever larger.
The looming end of President Hosni Mubarak’s long rule in Egypt might lead to the emergence of a formidable bid by the Muslim Brotherhood for power in Cairo, possibly forcing Mubarak’s successor either to reach a modus vivendi or to wage a fight to the death.
But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.
Even those who encouraged the military intervention, believing that it was needed to restore law and order or to maintain stability during the looming royal succession, are having second thoughts.
The decade ahead will be a particularly opportune time to create a transfer union, owing to the looming demographic crisis that is threatening most European countries, with the exception of France.
Recent moves to internationalize China’s renminbi have led to anticipation of a looming shift in the global monetary system.
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