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I have not excluded men a priori in this exercise, but none occurred to me, and in any case the EU establishment has too many middle-aged white men as it is.
Most of the loss of competitiveness in southern Europe occurred once unemployment there had fallen significantly.
To be sure, many outsiders claim that radicalization was not inevitable, and that it occurred precisely because external powers like the US failed to intervene earlier and more forcefully.
The rigidity and brutality of America’s behavior – resulting in many times more civilian deaths than occurred on September 11 – have blocked any useful intervention by countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or the United Arab Emirates.
My entire background was so self-evidently European that it never occurred to me to probe my thoughts.
As it stands, while the world tends to agree on constraining proliferation by limiting countries’ access to the relevant technology and material, the consensus often breaks down once proliferation has occurred.
Though Russia has formally announced that it will go ahead with its program, former President Mikhail Gorbachev – on whose watch the Chernobyl meltdown occurred 25 years ago – is not so sanguine.
For deniers, the problem is not that the Holocaust occurred, but that most people still consider it to be a bad thing.
In the current crisis, a substantial fraction of countries outside the G-20 are essentially defenseless: small relatively poor economies, no fiscal capacity for stimulus, and inadequate reserves to offset the capital outflows that occurred to shore up damaged balance sheets in advanced markets.
The spark that triggered unrest in the Tibetan part of what is now a largely ethnic Han Chinese city is unclear, but occurred somewhere near the Ramoche Temple when Chinese security forces attempted to stop a demonstration by monks.
In the aftermath of the Lhasa riots, similar disturbances occurred across the Tibetan Plateau, now divided into the Tibet Autonomous Region and several autonomous districts in the neighboring provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan.
While some warn that technological progress will leave many unemployed, others remain convinced that displaced workers will find new jobs that do not yet exist, as has occurred in the past.
The improvement of regulation and supervision, while a good idea, is better suited to avoiding future crises than to dealing with the consequences of a catastrophe that has already occurred.
So, have we learned anything from the policy failures of governments, institutions, and international diplomacy that occurred in the summer of 1914?
Over the past century – with the notable exception of the Great Depression – the US political system has been remarkably good at foreseeing crises long before they have happened, and at least setting the foundation for dealing with them when they have occurred.
The massive wealth of the original plutocrat is thus dissipated over several generations – as has occurred with the Rockefellers – with the rate of dissipation depending on how many children each heir has.
Any prediction concerning the boom's end requires understanding why it occurred in so many places.
Such an event occurred in December in Rome.
Then everything did change, exposing the extent of the transformation that had occurred beneath the surface.
Bo’s trial occurred at what is a critical moment for China.
That never happened, because new kinds of jobs emerged to offset what dislocation occurred.
Even in India, the sharp uptick in growth from 2003 occurred alongside a surge in overall investment.
Perhaps another occurred in 1998, when the Fed lowered interest rates in the face of what appeared to be an impending global financial crisis.
What needs to be avoided is a failure – such as occurred in Haiti following its devastating earthquake – to move from the first stage to the second.
Nevertheless, the same thing occurred with the first and second volumes of The Argentines, another look at our history by Jorge Lanata, one of Argentina’s best known journalists.
All of this is undeniable, and yet the most important change in Argentina – one that occurred a few years earlier – went unnoticed.
But, according to Branko Milanovic of the City University of New York, a big shift occurred between 1988 and 2008.
Such construction has occurred on seven previously unoccupied locations in the Spratlys: Mischief Reef, Subi Reef, Gaven Reef, and Hughes Reef (all previously submerged at high tide), and Johnson South Reef, Cuarteron Reef, and Fiery Cross Reef (all previously part-exposed at high tide, but uninhabitable).
The BIS hints at the possibility of a financial crisis that, with the US at its center, would dwarf by at least an order of magnitude all crises that have occurred since 1933.
The crucial lapse in Syria occurred in mid-2011, when the Assad regime’s violence was one-sided and containable.
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