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Seventy-three years ago, John Maynard Keynes thought about the reform and regulation of financial markets from the perspective of the first three purposes and found himself “moved toward... mak[ing] the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage...”But he immediately drew back: the fact “that each individual investor flatters himself that his commitment is ‘liquid’ (though this cannot be true for all investors collectively) calms his nerves and makes him much more willing to run a risk...”
Nerves in South Korea, and especially Japan, are raw.
It was the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s steely nerves and the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army – dispatched to enforce martial law and suppress the protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – that enabled the regime, at the cost of several hundred civilian lives, to avoid collapse.
The less determination the West demonstrates in Syria, the more the Iranians become convinced that they can play with the international community’s nerves and patience indefinitely.
But if the Fed’s ongoing withdrawal of stimulus has frayed African nerves, it has also spurred recognition that there are smarter ways to finance development than borrowing in dollars.
By the time Nixon fired Cox, the Watergate affair had been building for far longer than the allegations about Trump and Russia have, so nerves had been rubbed raw.
Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.
It will demand that decision-makers use their heads and hearts – and it will also test their nerves.
All of this has jarred regional nerves yet again, in South Korea and particularly in Japan.
The call to schedule elections for March of next year, although demanded by most Argentines, has failed to calm nerves.
The region’s reliance on commodities is fraying nerves.
But there are three specific talismanic issues on which he and his colleagues have taken worrying positions, jangling regional nerves.
On the contrary, the euro has plunged southern Europe and France into a deep economic crisis that is fraying the nerves of all involved.
In the US, such an agency could have weighed in on the costs and benefits of bailout plans, perhaps helping to end congressional paralysis and steeling nerves to give taxpayers more upside risk.
The innumerable blasts and attacks all across the country, the killing of Benazir Bhutto, and the routine television images of splatters of blood covered with flies have wrecked their nerves.
At the same time, the European refugee crisis has begun to fray British nerves.
There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
Early in his career, his work was often criticized for being overly dependent on economic analysis in dealing with big social problems, sometimes touching raw nerves on very sensitive issues.
Most complications of diphtheria – such as myocarditis (inflammation of the middle layer of the heart) and neuritis (inflammation of a peripheral nerve or nerves) – are attributable to the effects of the toxin.
I realized this during the nearly three months I spent in Mumbai during the lockdown, when family and friends told me of conflicts, showdowns, and frayed nerves in the city.
Nerves as usual!''Isn't it wonderfully good?' said Oblonsky, noticing that Levin kept looking at the portrait.
'I don't know myself whether it is this lonely life, or nerves...
Perhaps his nerves were twitching with curiosity for the first time in history.
"You never allow yourself any displays of bile or attacks of nerves!
Then his nerves grew calmer, his facial features recovered their usual icy composure, and turning to me:"Now, professor," he said, "if you'd like to inspect the Nautilus, I'm yours to command."
My nerves calmed a little, but with my brain so aroused, I did a swift review of my whole existence aboard the Nautilus, every pleasant or unpleasant incident that had crossed my path since I went overboard from the Abraham Lincoln: the underwater hunting trip, the Torres Strait, our running aground, the savages of Papua, the coral cemetery, the Suez passageway, the island of Santorini, the Cretan diver, the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the Ice Bank, the South Pole, our imprisonment in the ice, the battle with the devilfish, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and that horrible scene of the vessel sinking with its crew . . .
We were in dread, in the last stages of sheer horror, our blood frozen in our veins, our nerves numb, drenched in cold sweat as if from the throes of dying!
She constantly complained of her nerves, her chest, her liver.
"It is the nerves," said Emma."Do not speak to him of it; it would worry him."
Then far away, beyond the wood, on the other hills, she heard a vague prolonged cry, a voice which lingered, and in silence she heard it mingling like music with the last pulsations of her throbbing nerves.
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