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This paradigm shift marked the coming of modern economic growth, and contributed to the global economy’s “Great Divergence.”
Elected in 1996, after a campaign marked by strong claims of religious revival, the Welfare Party's Necmettin Erbakan made a conspicuous point of making his first official visits to Iran, Libya, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Desperate Central BankersNEW HAVEN – The final day of the summer marked the start of yet another season of futile policymaking by two of the world’s major central banks – the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.
This decade has been marked by a number of stunning extremes.
Twenty years after the European Parliament was elected by universal suffrage in 1979, the introduction of the euro marked a logical extension of the European dream.
That strike marked a significant departure from former President Barack Obama’s widely discredited policy toward Syria – one that could change the Syrian conflict’s rules of engagement, if not its course.
Forecasts of economic growth are being marked down sharply.
Of course, the upswing was marked by super-abundant credit.
That approach became more marked with the global financial crisis that began in the fall of 2008.
Chinese interests are served by a Middle East marked by regional cooperation.
But do the talks now underway have any better chance of success than the countless failed negotiations that have marked the past fifty years?
Gender Equality and Earth's FutureNEW YORK – Twenty years ago, the adoption by 189 governments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action marked a turning point in the history of women's rights.
A high point of the meeting was the speech by Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, who stressed the marked change in her institution, at least at the top: deep concern about women’s rights; renewed emphasis on the link between inequality and instability; and recognition that collective bargaining and minimum wages could play an important role in reducing inequality.
China’s problems arise mainly from widening income disparities, which are inciting hitherto unheard of levels of labor unrest – though this should not be viewed as a precursor to change of the sort that marked the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the end of communism in Poland.
For example, in Egypt in 1994, when the education minister banned primary school girls from wearing headscarfs, a strong backlash resulted and there followed a marked retrogression in women’s rights generally.
The postwar years marked a complete change of direction, as countries opened up, allowing freer flows of trade, capital, ideas, and people.
The Health of American PoliticsCAMBRIDGE – When the United States Congress approved President Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s.
With little fanfare, January 25, 2004, marked a milestone in the history of the protection of human rights in Africa: the entry into force of the Protocol for establishing an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
No purges marked the end of white rule.
Two years later, the country is marked by regional, social, ethnic, and ideological divisions, and its government is confused and disoriented.
The Global Economy’s New AbnormalNEW YORK – Since the beginning of the year, the world economy has faced a new bout of severe financial market volatility, marked by sharply falling prices for equities and other risky assets.
Another marked change in most societies is an increase in inequality.
Today, these initiatives are marked by outdated courses and rote learning methods that fail to prepare young people for the demands of the twenty-first-century job market.
Treason in the AirCOPENHAGEN – Discussions about global warming are marked by an increasing desire to stamp out “impure” thinking, to the point of questioning the value of democratic debate.
There has been marked progress on poverty reduction, disease control, and increased access to schooling and infrastructure in the poorest countries of the world, especially in Africa, as a result of the MDGs.
Kipling’s WisdomLONDON – The beginning of October marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the American-led bombardment of Afghanistan.
The oil crises marked a political as well as an economic turning point.
Then, there are the reactions to the new government, which have been marked by a temperateness of tone that is highly unusual – and all the more surprising, given that David Cameron, the new prime minister, has not exactly been the bearer of good news.
Indeed, it was the absence of debt that marked the United States’ emergence as a world power between 1914 and 1917.
The Other Europe’s 1968WARSAW – In Paris, West Berlin, London, and Rome, the spring of 1968 was marked by student protests against the Vietnam War.
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