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What better way to mark the occasion than by implementing it?
To mark the fifth anniversary of that occasion, we should acknowledge a simple reality: without this deal, Iran could have developed nuclear weapons by now, adding yet another source of instability to a volatile region.
On one occasion, when Cohen was still, in his own words, prepared to “take a bullet” for his boss, he had to delay his son’s bar mitzvah ceremony, because Trump decided to show up late.
A large-scale conversion would also be an occasion for many countries to issue innovative instruments with stabilizing properties, such as GDP-indexed and commodity-price-indexed bonds, without requiring them to pay a novelty premium.
And the global science community, for its part, has risen to the occasion in unprecedented ways, not only to develop vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics, but also to improve our understanding of the virus and the best strategies to protect ourselves.
On that occasion, the brave Chinese whistleblower Jiang Yanyong helped to end the cover-up.
The question, then, is whether this 75th anniversary could serve as another UN moment, an occasion for the world to come together behind a renewed multilateralism in response to the pandemic.
But May 4 is too important to ignore or suppress, so Chinese President Xi Jinping had to commemorate the occasion, somewhat diffidently, by calling for “Chinese youth of the new era” to be “brave in their struggles” and live up to “the spirit of May 4.”Even as he said this, student dissidents at Peking University were being arrested for expressing subversive ideas that might upset the official celebrations.
The US will most likely continue its protectionist drift at the upcoming summit in Osaka, but other G20 countries should use the occasion to make a clear case for free trade.
The start of a new decade is thus an occasion for pause and reflection.
For example, Trump presented to a sumo wrestling champion the “United States President’s Cup,” a nearly five-foot-tall (137-centimeter) trophy that Japan made up for the occasion.
On that occasion, then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s monetary policy – and his pleas to Republican legislators and austerity hawks to put the national interest ahead of partisan point-scoring and support aggressive fiscal stimulus – were completely ineffective in generating growth above previous trend rates.
On that occasion, President Abraham Lincoln famously warned that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
On that occasion, relying on fiscal policy to stimulate demand was declared politically unfeasible.
Now, it’s crunch time, which means that Europe must rise to the occasion once again.
(I do not, however, support his belittling of the Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on that same occasion.)
It is the UN’s 75th anniversary, and one would have wished for a better way to mark the occasion.
After all, she is already on record criticizing Chief Justice John Roberts for his failure to dismantle the law on a previous occasion.
With the 75th anniversary of the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions approaching in 2020, the international community should mark the occasion by heeding the lesson of the 2008 financial crisis.
But the publication of the long-awaited American plan for peace is an occasion to take stock.
On another occasion, a Western magazine tried to edit my initial draft to suggest that a refugee’s deceased parents were killed by armed militias when, in fact, her father’s death was undisclosed and her mother died from an illness.
Nancy Pelosi’s Great Wall of ResistanceWASHINGTON, DC – Whoever explained to then-President-elect Donald Trump what it meant to be president – if anyone did – neglected to tell him that on occasion a president loses a policy fight.
The Trump administration instead used the occasion to attack China for its own designs on the region.
Pompeo used the occasion to decry former President Barack Obama’s own pronouncements from the same stage a decade earlier, and to issue an implicit endorsement of the Middle East’s reigning autocrats.
A less skeptical observer than Rogoff would have looked more closely at proposals to strengthen automatic fiscal stabilizers, rather than dismissing them on the grounds that they will have (bad) “incentive effects” and that policymakers will override them on occasion.
And here we are: we have had bluffing, bullying, blackmail, and betrayal, not least on the occasion of the inconclusive EU summit of February 20-21, and Europe appears to be headed for minimal changes.
We urge them to rise to the occasion.
By contrast, the mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, emphasized the importance of the occasion.
For many, including me, the occasion will be tinged with regret.
When the usual top-down leadership is not forthcoming, others must rise to the occasion.
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