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Daredevil has a new enemy though, the super-enhanced Bullseye (Colin Farrell), who never misses his targets, hired by big villain Wilson Fisk, aka The Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan).
Much of the current talk about the draft’s various provisions thus misses the point.
But this assumption misses multiple points.
And yet, in a fundamental way, the current debate about OMT misses the point.
But this argument misses a crucial point: cooperation is a matter of degree, and the degree is affected by attraction or repulsion.
What he misses are two fundamental drivers of that depreciation: his own fiscal and trade policies.
But, even worse, it misses the point, and shows why public policy should be based on valid economic theory, not gut feelings.
Trump misses the point entirely when he says that India, but not the US, is “allowed” to continue its coal-power production.
But a trade war completely misses the point.
But this consensus misses an important point: the financial sector in the US and globally has become much more unstable in recent decades, and there is nothing in any of the reform efforts undertaken since the near-meltdown in 2008 that will make it safer.
The recurring criticism directed at President Barack Obama for not following through on his threat to attack Syria if it used chemical weapons completely misses the point.
In any case, arguments about the size of world oil reserves and when global production will peak misses the key security issue.
But his assessment of the relationship between basic research and technological innovation – in short, that “‘basic science’ isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think”– misses the mark.
The history of nuclear weapons since 1945 is studded with near misses – both before and after the Cuban missile crisis.
But this reading misses a critical development: the demise of America’s decades-long policy of engagement with China.
Recent history is peppered with a litany of false alerts and near misses, each unforeseen, each a combination of technical and human failure.
But claiming that unconventional monetary-policy measures would carry the risk of “much stronger politicizing of exchange rates” misses the mark.
But the debate about austerity and the cost of high public-debt levels misses a key point: Public debt owed to foreigners is different from debt owed to residents.
That misses the point.
Finally, Trump’s belief that bilateral negotiations give the US more leverage misses the mark.
But this misses the point: It is harder to reach agreement precisely because all of the key leaders (representing around two-thirds of the world’s population and 80% of global GDP), whose support is needed for any truly global decision, are in the room.
Anyone who believes devaluation is an answer to China's problems misses the point.
But this debate misses a crucial point: the hypermarket model is itself under serious threat everywhere from online shopping.
But this view misses the point.
But, in another sense, this misses the point.
It fixates on country-specific sources of the trade deficit, like China and Mexico, but misses the fundamental point that these bilateral deficits are symptoms of America’s far deeper saving problem.
But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability: the identity of the state’s creditor.
Blaming China misses the obvious and important point that the Chinese current-account surplus has fallen sharply in recent years, from 9.9% of GDP in 2007 to an estimated 1% in 2018.
Fear of jobs lost to low-wage countries strikes a populist chord, but misses a vital point: the prosperity of developed countries depends primarily on entrepreneurship.
But this misses two obvious points.
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