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While India seeks to downplay such reports, one incident that did make it into the Indian press occurred inside the “Line of Actual Control” (LAC) on the western sector of the border at Demchok, in India’s Ladakh district.
It is a much bigger storm than any that has occurred since the end of World War II.
Moreover, many are concerned that the country’s newly established cyber-crime investigative agency will carry out “unchecked government surveillance on Tunisian citizens,” as occurred under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in the Arab Spring revolution.
To disregard a patient’s preferences once he loses the ability to make decisions – as occurred when DeBakey’s wife reportedly stormed into a late-night hospital ethics committee meeting and demanded that the surgery take place – violates the hard-won respect for patients’ autonomy gained over the past 20 years.
Similar stock market booms and busts have occurred in many other countries.
If the 2011 uprisings had not occurred, we would now be witnessing another year of autocracy, with more talk of dynastic successions.
A similar fate occurred to a Robin Hood tax, which, according to Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, should have forced banks and oil producers to provide resources for the poor.
In fact, the most phenomenal export-oriented growth experiences to date – Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China – all occurred when import tariffs in the US and Europe were at moderate levels, and higher than where they are today.
Bank losses have already occurred, and their gains must now come at taxpayers’ expense.
Its conservative philosophy has consistently failed to produce economic growth, and the benefits of what growth has occurred have disproportionately gone to the wealthy.
In fact, the sharpest decline in public trust in the government occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
But a dramatic change to European policy and economic conditions occurred in March 2015, when the European Central Bank belatedly launched a bond-buying program similar to America’s, but on a far larger scale.
Historically, job displacement has occurred in waves, first with the structural shift from agriculture to manufacturing, and then with the move from manufacturing to services.
This diplomatic strike occurred at roughly the same time that Taiwan was failing - for the thirteenth time - in its bid to re-enter the United Nations, having been expelled when China was admitted in 1971.
Guarantees, soft loans, and equity investments backed by development aid can help attract investors, as has occurred with solar energy projects in Mali and manufacturing plants in Ethiopia.
Another factor supporting a more positive outlook is the rebalancing that has occurred between the US and China, the world’s two largest economies.
The latest attempted infiltration – which Indian military leaders say could not have occurred without the Pakistani army’s complicity – has added to the outcry against the government for its alleged naiveté.
Fitting a rising power into a decaying international system has rarely occurred peacefully.
Similar shifts have occurred in other European countries when established parties and traditions fell apart.
With nationalist sentiment aroused, few Chinese are asking why the violence occurred.
And precedents from Argentina, Chile, and Peru have shown how even in countries where the atrocities occurred, amnesties granted under pressure of violence can be ruled invalid.
In addition, the 1987 crash occurred against the backdrop of monetary-policy tightening by the US Federal Reserve.
The 1987 crash also occurred in a period of dollar weakness.
And while the Fed’s interest-rate hikes could hardly have been more carefully signaled in advance, there are still concerns that the desired financial tightening in credit markets has scarcely occurred yet, and that, if and when it does, some borrowers could find themselves uncomfortably exposed.
Cutting spending is made more difficult by the reductions in relative outlays that have already occurred.
They should have said, “We can say with 95% certainty that between 8,000 and 194,000 excess Iraqi deaths occurred during the period.”
In contrast to the Clinton era, under Bush the US Treasury Secretary was closer to industry than to banks, and so America’s response to Argentina’s default was notably more tolerant than probably would have been true had it occurred during the Clinton administration.
Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.
A similar transformation occurred in Europe in the tenth century, with the emergence of guilds – associations of skilled workers who controlled the practice of their craft in a particular town – which paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.
Because construction has occurred with scant regard for the provision of adequate waste disposal and sewage systems, the city’s rivers and canals have become garbage dumps, so choked that they can no longer serve as effective conduits to channel rainwater to the sea.
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