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That November, he wondered “what was bad about” the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Nazi-Soviet agreement that opened the way to Stalin’s invasion of eastern Europe and annexation of the Baltic states and parts of Poland and Romania.
The third trend concerns the room this has opened for individual and collective action.
In Japan, the isolationist temptation is expressed in the current nostalgia for the Edo period, from 1600 to 1868, before Emperor Meiji opened Japan to the world.
Only then is a society’s space for decision opened up, enabling its members to move in many more directions than previously deemed possible.
Kennedy’s eyes had been opened by a July 1962 US atmospheric nuclear test that inadvertently destroyed at least six satellites, including some belonging to the USSR.
But this door, having been opened, will not now be easily closed.
Now, it seems, the floodgates have opened.
Just as the Millennium Development Goals opened our eyes to extreme poverty and promoted unprecedented global action to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, the SDGs can open the eyes of today’s youth to climate change, biodiversity loss, and the disasters of desertification.
It is opened to possibilities that, until recently, were mere fairy-tales.
No country has opened such a repository, although Sweden has made significant progress in doing so.
In early June, I found a recently opened complex of expensive restaurants opposite the new luxury Grand Hotel in Shiraz packed with affluent customers.
The country was opened to foreign trade and investment and state-owned companies were privatized.
A fundamental change occurred in Europe when the failure of Soviet communism opened up entirely new opportunities.
Modi’s 2007 and 2012 visits to Japan opened new avenues for Japanese investment in business-friendly Gujarat.
The door was opened for devaluation – and for a political fight.
By contrast, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, weighed in with a piece on the Tsarnaev brothers that opened with Stalin’s banishment of the Chechen people “from their homeland in the northern Caucasus to Central Asia and the Siberian wastes.”
But devoting resources to promote imports – as China is doing with its inaugural International Import Expo, which just opened in Shanghai – is truly rare.
The most dramatic of these episodes accompanied the coup in July 2013, when Egyptian police and army opened fire on crowds protesting Morsi’s ouster in Cairo’s Rab’a Square, killing more than 1,000 protesters in less than ten hours.
A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much on income, education, or gender as on the voters’ generation.
Meanwhile, the Bayern Munich Football Club has opened a training camp for refugees, and Siemens has launched a traineeship program in Germany for asylum-seekers.
Indian information technology firms have opened offices in Shanghai and Hangzhou, and Infosys recruited nine Chinese this year for its headquarters in Bangalore.
The total failure of the Bush administration's Iraq policy has opened the door for Europe to offer a serious alternative vision for Iraq's future.
The finding forms the basis of genetics and has opened up promising new research areas, such as synthetic biology, in which biological systems are created or modified to perform specific functions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky opened his classic 1862 account of prison life, The House of the Dead, with a paean to the importance of work – even for those in Siberian penal colonies.
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that China opened its economy only to maintain the country’s over-mighty rulers in power, not to respect and enhance the lives of ordinary Chinese.
Europe implemented financial assistance and technical assistance programs, opened trade talks, and promised an eastward enlargement of the European Union, which eventually led to the free movement of workers across the former Iron curtain.
The second key figure was West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who rushed into the opened breach, overriding his Allies’ caution, while the third actor was the East German people, who rushed into the streets, regardless of the risks, to demonstrate and push reunification forward.
Similarly, when emerging markets opened themselves up to financial globalization, they reasoned that capital flows would facilitate their economic development.
Theater season opened on February 23, when EU leaders held their first talks on the 2021-2027 framework.
The last reason why budget issues matter this time around is that French President Emmanuel Macron has opened a new discussion about establishing a specific eurozone budget.
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