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The International Court of Justice also confirmed in 2007 that genocide occurred in Srebrenica and held that Serbia had failed in its legal duty to prevent it.
And, while depressed economic activity may slow somewhat the rate of greenhouse-gas build-up in the atmosphere, it will also slow the types of costly programs that governments must enact to address emissions that have already occurred.
Some say a tipping point has occurred.
At least as I read the history, by 1829, Western Europe’s technocratic economists had figured out why these periodic grand mal economic seizures occurred.
If capital is flowing out of Italy and into Germany, there is no scope for an Italian depreciation, as would have occurred prior to the common currency.
It is inconceivable that the Fund, with its qualified and dedicated staff, would have failed so miserably in detecting and calling attention to the vulnerabilities piling up in the US mortgage market had they occurred in a developing country.
“There will be difficulties on the way, and three of them have already occurred,” he told me.
At the same time, the currencies of countries that chose not to intervene became targets of speculative inflows, owing to the expectation that they would appreciate.In other words, spillovers occurred not only between advanced and emerging economies, but also among emerging economies.
Since then, huge technological advances have occurred, and demand for resources has increased massively.
The Industrial Revolution occurred in a setting where the economy’s basic institutional incentives were unchanged for hundreds of years, and, if anything, were getting worse.
All but one of the ten warmest years since 1880, when global records began to be kept, have occurred in the twenty-first century.
The same thing occurred in the 2007-2008 crisis, though the shift is less acute this time, and is confined to the eurozone.
Such eruptions have occurred before in a more politically toxic manner.
But a Henry Wallace presidency (which would have occurred if FDR had not switched him for Harry Truman as vice president in 1944) might have changed the style of the US response.
The most dramatic breakthrough of this kind occurred when General Electric, one of the world’s most important, innovative, and respected companies, announced that it was going “green” with a major new corporate focus on environmentally sound technologies and a commitment to limit its own greenhouse gas emissions.
Chinese researchers have detected antibodies to SARS-like viruses in 2% of people from whom blood samples were taken in 2001 - a year before the disease first occurred.
No student-led, urban protests like those of Tiananmen Square of 1989, however, have occurred.
But, as with so many peace processes, finding a balance between creating a stable accord and acknowledging the terrible injustices that occurred during the conflict can be difficult to achieve.
History has shown that years of La Nina, such as 1998, are typically characterized by fierce hurricane activity in the Caribbean, exactly what occurred with Hurricane Mitch.
The only surprise is that more calamities haven’t occurred – at least not yet.
In China, the leadership transition has occurred smoothly.
Neither of these steps has yet occurred, but, based on my experiences in 1991, when I led a UN team studying the environmental effects of the first Persian Gulf war, several initial observations are possible.
For example, it generally would say that a recession had occurred if GDP had fallen very sharply in two quarters, even if they were separated by one quarter of weak growth.
Japan may have taken what seemed like forever to recover from its 1990’s crisis, but it is an exception – the crisis occurred as the Japanese economy needed to restructure in the face of the huge challenges posed by China’s emergence.
During April, the rise in inflationary expectations and the euro’s appreciation occurred more or less concurrently.
These gains occurred only because of the commitment of leaders, agencies, and individuals who realized that lessening the malaria burden is not only an opportunity, but also a responsibility.
There was also excess in the securitized products that converted these debts into toxic financial derivatives; in borrowing by local governments; in financing for leveraged buyouts that should never have occurred; in corporate bonds that will now suffer massive losses in a surge of defaults; in the dangerous and unregulated credit default swap market.
We are told not to worry about large-scale cyber meltdowns, because none has occurred, and governments are being vigilant.
But because these gains follow the massive contraction that occurred during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, they are a far cry from the trajectory of a classic V-shaped recovery.
Some 90% of the 1.6 million tuberculosis deaths in 2003 occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
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