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Indeed, in a world that has grown nervous about emerging economies, Mexico stands out as an island of opportunity, with a stable fiscal position and the prospect of rising demand for its goods as the US recovery gathers momentum.
But when the bank announced a first-half loss of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.
But now that Japan finally has a leader who agrees, the US is getting nervous, with Secretary of State John Kerry supposedly calling Japan under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “unpredictable.”
Europe’s central bankers had been nervous, even superstitious, about the late summer long before 1931.
Montagu Norman, the longest-serving Governor of the Bank of England and a romantic and temperamental man, regularly left his office for several weeks at this time of year, owing to nervous exhaustion.
That the West seems nervous about Putin only enhances his prestige at home.
Hospitals were flooded with patients showing symptoms of damage to the central nervous system.
In the meantime, both party establishments have reason to be nervous.
The rabies virus hijacks the nervous system and actually manipulates neural processes to make its host move faster.
As Japan grows increasingly nervous about China’s rise, the case for increasing investment in the other Asian giant strengthens.
A Nice Mess in NiceLONDON: A hundred years ago, the humorous English magazine Punch carried a cartoon which depicted a young and nervous curate eating breakfast with his bishop.
Inextricably bound to consciousness, it is an experience that all living creatures with advanced nervous systems share.
Neuropathic pain, by contrast, arises after a lesion or disease affects the nervous system.
The current Japanese empress and her daughter-in-law, both from non-aristocratic families, have had nervous breakdowns as a result.
In short, many investors are nervous because China’s future growth story is unclear to them.
This makes most employers a little nervous.
On the other hand, if the system is defied, or reinterpreted in a way that alters its intended meaning, bond markets could once again become nervous.
In April, PBOC Deputy Governor Yi Gang tried to reassure nervous investors in a presentation in New York by saying that the level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the Chinese banking sector had “pretty much stabilized after a long time of climbing.”
“Unused to planning and possessed of limited human capacity, senior officials in the ministries are very nervous,” an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reported.
With another era of automation upon us, how nervous about the future of our own livelihoods should we be?
It was also during this time that the Republican Party began to suffer a nervous breakdown.
The Dayton agreement represented not so much the defeat of their plans as the international legitimation of their division of Bosnia, with Bosnian Muslim enclaves left in a nervous see-saw with Tudjman's vicious Hercegovinian minions.
But, for all the recent PLA and other activity, when the country’s leadership transition (which has made many key central officials nervous) is completed at the end of this year, there is reason to hope that a more restrained Chinese position will be articulated.
No wonder that the French, who have rarely had a hard currency to call their own, are nervous and want something, anything, to be done.
Rubio’s slick speaking style and Hispanic heritage make Democrats nervous.
It is no coincidence that nervous investors are flocking to the dollar, even though what has made them nervous is Trump’s election.
But such approaches are anathema to the US Republican Party, and to its Tea Party faction in particular, and they might unnerve the many Asians who are nervous at China’s growing military might.
Never before has an American presidential inauguration been met with so many hosannas from the United States’ oldest foe, Russia, and with such nervous anguish from its closest allies.
Especially in nervous markets, which we certainly have today, any perception that the ECB’s decisions might not take into account the interests of the whole eurozone, or could commit the major countries to significant losses, could itself be destabilizing.
In attempting to explain this phenomenon, scientists observed that most of the island’s inhabitants ate cycad seeds, which contained beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a toxin that interferes with the nervous system’s functioning.
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