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Unfortunately, this observation ignores the inconvenient truth that these countries’ private companies borrow in dollars.
Its models of human behavior are built not on close observation, but on hypotheses that, if not quite plucked from the air, are unconsciously plucked from economists’ intellectual and political environments.
This demands close observation by international observers.
Insofar as Palmerston’s observation is true of countries, it is even more valid for spies.
Americans’ desensitization to the pandemic’s skyrocketing death toll vindicates Joseph Stalin’s famous observation: “One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
Of 100 survivors in the study, 78 had evidence of previous heart inflammation, and 60 showed ongoing inflammation at the time of observation.
The world paid close attention to OSCE observation missions’ verdict on elections held in countries like Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.
It failed to purchase enough reagents, testing kits, protective suits, and other necessary equipment, and did not prepare observation and quarantine facilities.
Other suggestions reflect Mariana Mazzucato’s observation that the state is often the investor of both first and last resort.
This leads him to the observation that humans are the only social animal “guided by the interests of the entire species to which it belongs.”
But it is a powerful indicator of those debt-fearing times that Obama’s address – delivered when the US unemployment rate was still 9.7% – went against John Maynard Keynes’s 1937 observation that “the boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”
Financial analysts who limit their data to their own country and time period are like nineteenth-century British philosophers who concluded by induction from personal observation that all swans are white.
The Key to the Productivity PuzzleCAMBRIDGE – In a 1996 lecture entitled “Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk,” the late Mancur Olson made a powerful observation: an individual from a poor country – say, Haiti – who migrates to a richer country like the United States immediately becomes vastly more productive and earns a far higher wage than before.
The observation that what is collectively rational need not be individually appealing is the bread and butter of modern public economics.
What remains unclear is how this observation fits into their theory of social change.
My other observation relates to Italy, where public opinion is moving toward leaving the euro and the EU.
This last observation is crucial.
The observation of fundamental flaws with the methodological individualism that underpins conventional economic prescriptions is far from new.
During the service he would sometimes listen to the prayers, trying to see in them a meaning which would not clash with his opinions, or, finding that he could not understand and had to disapprove of them, he would try not to listen but to occupy his mind with observation of what was going on or with recollections which passed with extraordinary clearness through his brain as he stood idly in the church.
But, not to hinder his relating everything, she masked her observation and listened with an appreciative smile while he told her how he had spent the evening.
Conseil kept Ned under observation.
A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
As for me, I stared industriously in the direction under observation but without spotting a thing.
"With master's permission, I'll make an observation to him," Conseil then told me.
After breakfast we'll make our way ashore and choose an observation post."
Not even the swiftest fish or birds could keep up with us, and the natural curiosities in these seas completely eluded our observation.
Emma had a number in her cupboard that she squandered one after the other, without Charles allowing himself the slightest observation.
"First, having at the time of the cholera distinguished myself by a boundless devotion; second, by having published, at my expense, various works of public utility, such as" (and he recalled his pamphlet entitled, "Cider, its manufacture and effects," besides observation on the lanigerous plant-louse, sent to the Academy; his volume of statistics, and down to his pharmaceutical thesis); "without counting that I am a member of several learned societies" (he was member of a single one).
The philosopher's observation makes me excuse Madame de Renal, but there was no excuse for her at Verrieres, and the whole town, without her suspecting it, was exclusively occupied with the scandal of her love.
He tried to work out who the man actually was, first in silence, just through observation and by thinking about it, but the man didn't stay still to be looked at for very long.
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