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Analogous guarantees and bank bailouts have occurred in the other major economies (the ECB does not play this role for Europe; national governments do).
This year, two small studies of blood tests seemed to predict Alzheimer’s 1-3 years before it occurred, but the tests are complicated and require the measurement of ten or more substances.
Each time in the last hundred years that a shift of this magnitude has occurred in beliefs about state-market relations, a major political-economic upheaval has ensued.
Foshan’s net exports declined from 30% of GDP in 2006 to 18% in 2012, reflecting a much earlier shift to domestic markets than occurred in other Chinese manufacturing cities like Wenzhou (25% of GDP), Dongguan (32%), and Shenzhen (37%).
While some adjustment has occurred, much of the change is not permanent.
This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, Maryland, a retrogression has occurred in the process.
These were significant declines – larger one-day drops in the Dow, for example, have occurred only 35 times since January 1950, or about once every twenty months.
Globalization 1.0 – the surge in global trade and international capital flows that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – met its demise between World War I and the Great Depression.
The connectivity of Globalization 1.0 occurred via ships and eventually railroads and motor vehicles.
Blowouts were not infrequent, but most occurred on land or in shallow water, and most could be stopped relatively easily.
Tragic as this was for Thomas Duncan, the only one of these patients who has died, if all of the more than 13,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths had occurred in Africa, Ebola would never have aroused nearly as much attention in rich countries.
The lackluster trend in consumption is all the more pronounced when judged against the unprecedented decline that occurred in the depths of the Great Recession.
Ugly executions of military and other captives have undoubtedly occurred in Mosul, Tikrit, and other cities seized by ISIS.
But, based on the evidence currently available, it would be premature to conclude that violence against the defenseless has already occurred – or is imminent – on the scale necessary to justify outside military intervention.
The Internet bubble is the most recent example, but a similar phenomenon occurred with the construction of railways more than a century ago.
Specifically, it would boost confidence, which would lower interest rates and offset any direct effect on demand, as occurred in Ireland and Denmark in the 1980’s.
The most recent example of this “dialogue of the deaf” occurred in Europe, from January to July 2015.
There are several reasons why such measures weren’t taken in anticipation of a tsunami on the scale that occurred.
The fact that a disaster of a particular type has not occurred recently or even within human memory (or even ever) is a bad reason to ignore it.
The underlying structural changes that have occurred in China in recent years reinforce this optimism.
But in the case of the World Cup infrastructure, large-scale fraud, theft, and graft is unlikely to have occurred.
By far the bloodiest attacks against Sufi places of worship have occurred in Pakistan, where the Taliban has desecrated Sufi holy places in more than a dozen bombings since 2005.
Consider, for example, what has occurred over the past 20 years in the United States.
Even when the police have investigated cases and referred them to the courts, prosecution has proceeded at a glacial pace or has not occurred at all.
Many journalists spent time behind bars, and there was a price to be paid when the morning newspapers contained even accidental typos, such as occurred when a headline concerning a royal birthday read “suspicious” instead of “auspicious.”
The European Central Bank deserves credit for the economic improvements that have occurred in the past few years.
When candidates repeatedly call Muslims dangerous, for example, no one should be surprised by a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes, as has occurred in the wake of both the Brexit vote and Trump’s victory.
But this process has not occurred, and, as the interminable Greek crisis has shown, the eurozone remains rife with structural weaknesses and extremely vulnerable to internal shocks.
Major changes have occurred in the minds and lives of women, helping them to break through the shackles of the past, and to demand their freedom and dignity.
Some argue that fiscal consolidation by gradual permanent reductions in spending would be expansionary for high-debt countries, as occurred in some historical episodes.
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