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Moreover, many African countries hit bottom and rebounded from long
periods
of civil war and economic decline.
Both societies have a mixed history that included
periods
of peaceful, cooperative politics and
periods
of violence and bloodletting.
While CO2 can remain in the atmosphere for centuries, other pollutants, including black carbon and ozone, remain for relatively
periods
– days, weeks, months, or years – so that reducing or ending emissions promises almost immediate climate benefits.
All students must still spend one or two class
periods
per week on the Ruhnama , and, although many classrooms in Ashgabat are now equipped with the latest computers, Internet access remains available only to a few government officials and foreign guests.
Most agreed that it will center on a bipolar confrontation between the US and China; but they doubted that it will resemble the Cold War and interwar
periods.
That is a thin basis on which to propose a new set of capital requirements, which would be “built up during upswings of the financial cycle and run down during
periods
of financial stress.”
And achieving the first period’s INDCs at low cost will be an important determinant of countries’ willingness to take further steps in future
periods.
Here, too, China’s incursions, after increasing in frequency, are now being staged intermittently for longer
periods.
This has to do with another characteristic of the great ideas that define historical periods, namely the fact that they come from the margin of prevailing orthodoxies.
And there have been
periods
of reform, when governments tried to redress the balance.
Exceptional
periods
sometimes create exceptional leaders.
Countries run into trouble when they do not use high-growth
periods
to strengthen their institutional underpinnings.
Of course, these differences are over very short periods, so it is probably unwise to draw too many conclusions – except that India is not alone in suffering a fall-off in trade.
The past couple of weeks have been among the most momentous
periods
since our reunification with China in 1997, and it has left me in the hot seat as Hong Kong’s Acting Chief Executive.
His answers are, basically: less often, only in emergencies or crises that pose systemic risk, and for short
periods
of time.
Political revolutions rarely arise out of brief
periods
of acute crisis.
But the stock market does not guarantee returns; it does not even guarantee that the stock values will keep up with inflation – and there have been
periods
in which they have not.
General SDR allocations are to be based on “a long-term global need to supplement existing reserve assets,” with decisions made for successive
periods
of up to five years.
Just phasing in more efficient air-conditioning systems would be the emissions equivalent of retiring 2,500 medium-size peak power plants (power plants that come on-stream during
periods
of high demand, such as during the summer).
The US presidency gives direction and guidance to the entire system, a kind of rudder that guides the world toward calm waters or, when necessary, through
periods
of creative disruption.
Partially delayed integration rather than transition
periods
or quotas is a market-oriented solution that can maintain Europe's welfare states and enable it to grow and develop to its true potential.
In Singapore, regulators are developing an innovative Electricity Vending System to give 1.2 million consumers real-time price signals so that they can learn to conserve electricity during peak
periods.
Just because the dollar weakened twice during the last two
periods
of Fed tightening does not prove that the same thing will happen again.
In digital technologies and software, for example, new advances have much shorter gestation
periods
and typically build on previous innovations in an incremental fashion, meaning that much shorter patent terms may be appropriate.
Tribalism has strong appeal in
periods
of rapid, tumultuous change, as what the political philosopher Karl Popper called the “the strain of civilization” exerts its pressures on society.
Some researchers are finding that long-lasting injury signals in neural pathways can change the way those pathways function, and over long
periods
of time, relentless signals of injury can even alter neural structures themselves.
Proponents of this view point to furious trading in New York and London, with average holding
periods
for major stocks diminishing in recent decades.
In fact, the change may be driven by a rapidly trading minority, and not by major stockholders shortening their holding
periods.
For starters, zero inflation and persistent
periods
of deflation – when the target is 0% and inflation is below target – may lead to debt deflation.
The bilateral relationship has been rocky ever since, alternating between
periods
of friction and conciliation.
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