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But the second atomic bombing, of Nagasaki, was utterly indefensible and took place through sheer bureaucratic momentum: the bombing apparently occurred without Truman’s explicit order.
Moreover, the system for payments and settlement has been made safer, thereby lowering the threat of a “sudden stop” in economic activity, like the one that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2008.
All of these incidents occurred within just one week.
The People’s Bank of China should maintain reserve requirements for commercial banks to contain credit creation, rather than reject them as old-fashioned, as occurred in the advanced economies in the decades before 2008.
Since Venezuela became independent, defaults on its bonded external debt have occurred in 1826, 1848, 1860, 1865, 1892, 1898, 1983, 1990, 1995, and 2004.
This productivity slowdown has occurred across advanced economies, for reasons – adverse demographic trends, lower investment demand, or any of a slew of other possible explanations – that remain unclear.
The first formal manifestation of today’s trade tensions occurred in the steel sector – an “old economy” industry par excellence, one that is plagued, especially in China, by enormous excess capacity.
But change has occurred, though sometimes more in rhetoric than reality.
The same thing occurred in East Asia in the 1990s: the crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 with the collapse of the baht, and quickly spread to other East Asian countries.
Fast-paced social change has occurred, often adversely affecting people’s traditional adherence to Catholic teaching and values.”
Episodes of “burning books and burying intellectuals alive” had occurred before, but none was more radical than the destructive force unleashed by Mao.
In Guangxi province, where some of the worst violence occurred, nearly 100,000 people were killed during July and August 1968.
In Beijing, deaths occurred mostly in areas wuth trees and lakes.
This indicates that the “Denisovans” must have existed not just in Siberia, but also along the southeast Asian route that early modern humans used to reach Australasia, where the hypothesized hybridization occurred.
Only a miniscule fraction of possible sequences has ever occurred, through duplication, multiplication, and modification of a small starter set of genes.
One is the “perfect storm” position: there were very many failures, misperceptions, informational asymmetries, and complexities, as well as much repugnant behavior, but it never occurred to market participants, regulators, or academics that the aggregate effect would be a near-collapse of the system.
If so, the volatility in home prices after 2000 was the result of faulty thinking, not of the natural effects of global economic growth, which has occurred at a relatively smooth rate for decades now.
What is surprising is that this aggressive behavior occurred in response to no visible danger.
Great civil-society protest movements – such as have occurred in Egypt and Tunisia – can overthrow a dictatorship, but a true democracy requires parties, negotiations, election rules, and agreement on constitutional changes.
After all, they reasoned, Kim would not have missed attending important events, including a ceremony honoring his father and grandfather, Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-Sung, unless something serious had occurred.
On the contrary, some of the biggest stock-market crashes have occurred during periods of rapid growth, usually triggered by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates.
The Art of FinancePRINCETON – In the middle of September’s financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London.
Declines occurred in all three leading ethnic communities: from 39% to 35% among Shiites, from 20% to 6% among Sunnis, and from 11% to 5% among Kurds.
Moreover, disruptive technologies will cause value to shift among economic sectors, as occurred when television overtook radio or, more recently, when online media gained predominance over print publication.
The transformation from state socialism into a postindustrial society had never occurred anywhere else.
But the reason it has occurred is not that our greenhouse-gas emissions are no longer changing the earth’s climate; it is that surface temperature is a poor metric for human-induced warming.
For emerging markets, the first seven-year phase of plentiful capital flows occurred in 1975-1981, with the recycling of petrodollars in the form of loans to developing countries.
The third cycle of inflows occurred in 2004-2011, persisting even through the global financial crisis.
The first run on a bank occurred against the British mortgage lender Northern Rock.
Bismarck’s unification of Germany in the nineteenth century occurred at the high-water mark of European nationalism.
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