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None of these catastrophic scenarios has occurred, but they certainly cannot be ruled out.
The limited nature of evidence on some environmental cancer hazards should not be confused with proof that no harm has occurred: the research is hard to do, and, in the US, very little of it is now funded by the government and private sector.
Relative price changes could have occurred in two ways: either the dollar price of gold could have increased or the dollar prices of all other goods and services could decrease.
The real drama, however, occurred not among the country’s main parties but on the boundaries of the political spectrum.
For Argentina, the path to its 2001 default started with the ballooning of its sovereign debt in the 1990s, which occurred alongside neoliberal “Washington Consensus” economic reforms that creditors believed would enrich the country.
In nearly every case and for every threshold value tested, a majority of Governing Council members voted for the policy change that actually occurred, and their votes could be predicted by the difference between their national inflation rate and the euro-area average.
While they have already concluded that a deep shift in American attitudes to China has occurred, they remain uncertain about what precise form that shift is taking, and whether a fundamental shift in their strategy (as opposed to tactics) is warranted.
Serious wrongdoing, involving bribery and institutional corruption, no doubt occurred along the way; but the scale of such offenses could hardly justify last year's military coup and the subsequent repression.
But Russia, China, and others are reluctant to provide a legal or political basis for actions such as what occurred in Libya.
If the UN cannot approve a resolution for implementing a no-fly zone, then the US and its allies in NATO and the Arab world must be prepared to prevent a massacre like the one that occurred in Srebrenica in 1995, when more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were slaughtered.
From the outset, both sides expected a defining fight, which occurred last November, after the government decided to align the retirement age in the public sector with that of the private sector.
And some of the government spending in the stimulus package will replace other outlays that would have occurred anyway.
The move – which established a model for China to annex other disputed territories – occurred despite a US-brokered deal for a mutual withdrawal of Chinese and Philippine vessels from the area.
The court has jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity that occurred on member states’ territory or that were committed by their citizens.
It is not completely clear whether humans have caused this tipping – though nothing like it has ever occurred during the 11,500-year Holocene period before humans started interfering with the planet’s energy balance.
Precisely for this reason, many of the changes in Europe have occurred despite German opposition.
While the Fed’s first round of quantitative easing helped to end the financial-market turmoil that occurred in the depths of the recent crisis, two subsequent rounds – including the current, open-ended QE3 – have done little to alleviate the lingering pressure on over-extended American consumers.
All of these trend reversals occurred simultaneously or within a very few months of each other.
The decline occurred over the better part of a decade, as we began to see the end of debt-driven overexpansion, and accelerated with the latest debt crisis.
But there were other important firsts that occurred on Annan’s watch: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created; $100 billion of African debt was forgiven; aid to the poorest countries rose fast; the Responsibility to Protect principle moved from one man’s aspiration to unanimous endorsement by the United Nations General Assembly; and the first steps toward the Paris climate agreement were taken.
Then a subtle change occurred.
The long-suffering Japanese tend to be more patient and disciplined than, say, Argentineans, but when social eruptions have occurred in Japanese history, they have been very violent.
Egypt after MorsiBERLIN – Egypt lies at the heart of the Arab revolution, even if the original spark occurred in Tunisia.
Contrary to the claims of food-biotech critics, who insist that genetically modified crops pose risks (none of which has actually occurred) of new allergens or toxins in the food supply, such products offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.
Without effective and timely action, this new, resistant form of malaria will become widespread – a pattern that has already occurred twice with older malaria medicines.
The significant loss of current and future potential output is all the more remarkable, because it has occurred despite a sustained and unprecedented effort by the Fed to boost demand and hasten the recovery.
The primary driver of this year’s faster GDP growth is the $10 trillion rise in household wealth that occurred in 2013.
But does it make sense to stick to such a simple analysis after what occurred on September 11, 2001?
Some of the few European corporate failures similar to those in the US have occurred in American-style companies-Vivendi in France or Marconi in Britain-with no controlling shareholder to monitor the company.
At that point, discrete carbon prices could gradually converge toward a single price, as has occurred with prices for commodities like oil.
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