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To understand how this shift occurred is to see why, more often than not, such intervention has failed to attain its objectives.
A 2012 study reported that its use averted an estimated 272,040 maternal deaths in 2008, 44% fewer than might otherwise have occurred.
But all of the other 30 drops occurred at times when stock prices were much more volatile.
Pakistani reactions were a curious mixture, ranging from dismissive declarations (backed by orchestrated bus tours of journalists to selected parts of the LoC) that no surgical strikes had even occurred, to angry statements declaring that irresponsible Indian firing across the LoC had killed two Pakistani soldiers.
It has since emerged that the operation announced by Singh was not India’s first military strike across the LoC; several had occurred under the previous government as well, in response to military raids on Indian territory.
But, so far, none of this has occurred, largely because nicotine is viewed as a highly addictive and toxic substance, with even smokers hesitating to try NRT or PNV for this reason.
But this occurred after a world war that had created huge pent-up demand for new equipment, transport infrastructure, and household appliances, together with a military-industrial complex that armed the West during the Cold War.
The spin that worked so well back then – that the attacks occurred because “they hate our freedoms” – does not ring true anymore.
That group met for four years before it occurred to members that such one-sidedness might result in bias.
A serious problem is that no debate about how clean is clean enough occurred before the regional cleanup was initiated.
Yet, though morality was always at the center of his thinking, many of the moral truths that we now take for granted never occurred to him.
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however, an intellectual revolution occurred.
Reviving Europe’s UniversitiesCOPENHAGEN -- Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world’s top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans are in a similar situation with education.
The last great oil bust occurred in the 1980s – and it changed the world.
This means that there is a high probability of an intervention on a particular day if an intervention occurred the previous day.
Little wonder, then, that the largest drops in popular support for enlargement registered by the Eurobarometer Survey occurred in EU countries with the most generous welfare states.
No more large-scale attacks have occurred inside the US, and everyday life has recovered well.
Given the high economic costs of a banking crisis, governments are likely to take on the liabilities of their financial sector when a crisis hits – as recently occurred in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and in financial crises in Latin America and Asia in the 1990’s.
Consider, for example, an episode that occurred just hours before MBS launched his anti-corruption purge: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, while visiting Saudi Arabia, announced his resignation from office.
The authorities’ overblown reaction – and that of much of the press – was all the odder for having occurred just as the US Senate was voting down a bill that would have made it harder for known killers and mentally disturbed people to buy guns, or for private individuals to acquire weapons normally used only in warfare.
When regimes change, such contracts could come up for review, as has occurred in many other African countries.
And, given that this year’s growth has largely already occurred, Germany’s economy has now plateaued – and could even be contracting.
But note that it occurred near a health facility.
Only when the credit bubble burst – triggering an abrupt adjustment, rather than the gradual adaptation of skills and human capital that would have occurred in more normal times – did millions of workers suddenly find themselves unemployed.
Although some of the losses may have resulted from productivity gains from information technology and digitization, many occurred when companies shifted segments of their supply chains to other parts of the global economy, particularly China.
If this occurred, oil prices could be expected to rise again relatively quickly.
Trade rules need to be updated to reflect the market and policy shifts that have occurred – particularly the increasing importance of emerging economies – since the WTO was established in 1995.
The EU’s large states feel particularly vulnerable, and it is there that the biggest shock to expectations has occurred.
Thus, China did not suffer a severe recession – as occurred in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere in emerging Asia in 2009 – only because fixed investment exploded.
As occurred in Japan decades ago, China is starting to face lower-cost competition, such as from Vietnam; its stock market is frothy; and Xi’s anti-corruption program, though popular with ordinary citizens, has led to widespread uncertainty about the “rules of the game.”
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