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What happened at Abu Ghraib was not a case of a few bad apples, but a
pattern
tolerated and even encouraged by American authorities.
In 2011 and 2012, the United Kingdom stood out among the advanced economies in this regard; but the
pattern
holds even for Germany.
With the increasing
pattern
of internal, rather than international, armed conflicts, and the rising regularity of extreme weather events affecting millions of people, internal displacement poses an even greater challenge to future generations.
Indeed, in the course of trying to report to the university in 2004 what had happened to me in 1983, I found the same
pattern
of stonewalling victims and defending perpetrators.
Such “inadvertent escalation” can stem from a
pattern
of imprudent operational behavior, for example, or from persistent strategic miscalculation.
Within Eastern Europe, capital has sought out the countries with the most rapid growth, following the overwhelming
pattern
in emerging markets.
To change the economic structure and growth pattern, first the structure of demand must be changed.
Pain emerges into awareness only after sensory, emotional, and cognitive processes have combined to form a coherent, integrated
pattern
of experience.
On taking office, Russia’s new president, Dmitry Medvedev, should order an independent review process to help end the country’s
pattern
of stigmatizing and discriminating against people with disabilities.
It is too early to speculate whether Germany will be able to break this
pattern
and reverse that trend.
In addition, the precise
pattern
of technological change has put pressure on the middle class everywhere – by reducing the demand for workers who have only a secondary-school education.
We find that this
pattern
is due to markets’ learning over time to appreciate the difference in expected future profitability between firms that have good and bad governance (in terms of their levels of anti-takeover protection).
It is a familiar story, one that is consistent with the global
pattern
of this terrible disease, which claims a life every two minutes: those most in need of protection have the least access to it.
First, BNP’s infraction was part of a
pattern
of deliberate and repeated behavior.
The scale and structure of any out-of-court mortgage settlement should address the damage inflicted by the alleged
pattern
of behavior.
But if the old
pattern
continues, and massive poverty-stricken populations are left out of the political process, the country could explode in another orgy of violence.
As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by lowering interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).
This new
pattern
– which persisted through the 1980s and 1990s, and accelerated after 2000 – caused inequality to rise sharply, weakening the foundations of globalization.
A third feature of America’s new growth
pattern
is likely to be added pressure on large companies to maintain their reputations within the US.
So, not surprisingly, most other developing countries would gratefully seize the opportunity to replicate China’s growth
pattern
– including its pollution.
Mismanagement of natural-resource wealth underpins an especially potent self-limiting
pattern
of growth and development.
But the opposite of the excessive-consumption model – excessive reliance on investment to generate aggregate demand – is also a self-limiting growth
pattern.
Altering this growth
pattern
is a significant part of the challenge that China now faces.
Expectations come to exceed reality, and resetting the system to a sustainable growth
pattern
is difficult.
Contrary to the prevailing wisdom nowadays, some degree of Keynesian demand management in the transition to a more sustainable growth
pattern
is not in conflict with restoring fiscal balance over a sensible time period.
Prior to the highly publicized killing of a woman and her four little children last week, this
pattern
was illustrated by a previous report from B’Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organization: 106 Palestinians were killed between February 27 and March 3.Fifty-four of them were civilians who didn't take part in the fighting, and 25 were under 18 years of age.
All of these successes, and many more, share a similar
pattern.
That is a historical
pattern.
To be sure, Brazil’s government did make adjustments to its growth
pattern
following the global financial shocks of 2008-2009.
Second, today’s algorithms are becoming very good at
pattern
recognition when they are provided with large data sets – finding objects in YouTube videos or detecting credit card fraud – but they are much less effective with unusual circumstances that do not fit the usual pattern, or simply when the data are scarce or a bit “noisy.”
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