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Oil prices
plunged
by 45% in1991, and by 35% in 2003, within a month of the US launching its attacks.
The price of oil may have
plunged
for now, but it will rise again.
Their currencies
plunged.
Not surprisingly, the contraction was most acute during the depths of the Great Crisis, when consumption
plunged
at a 4.5% rate in the third and fourth quarters of 2008.
The truth is that it was Bush who, having
plunged
the US into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, in 2008 signed the Status of Forces Agreement that allotted three years to withdraw all US troops from Iraqi territory.
Meanwhile, India’s growth rate has
plunged
as a result of faltering economic reforms and unsustainable budgetary choices: it now has record-high fiscal and current-account deficits.
Antoon opposed both Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship and the 2003 US-led invasion, which
plunged
the country into chaos, inflamed ethnic tensions, and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The price of coal, for example, has
plunged
to around half of its peak level, with plenty of room remaining on the downside.
So we must try to reconcile the “yes” and “no” countries if we are to overcome the crisis into which Europe has been
plunged.
Yet Botswana averaged 8.7% annual economic growth over the past thirty years, while Sierra Leone
plunged
into civil strife.
As developed countries were
plunged
into debt crises, with shrinking asset values and declining exchange rates, China’s international purchasing power grew.
Since the Great Disinflation of the early 1980s, when the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
plunged
from 14.7% in March 1980 to 2.4% in July 1983, inflation has generally remained in a relatively narrow 1-5% range for a quarter-century.
From 2001 when Thaksin first became prime minister, to 2007 under military rule, Thailand’s corruption ranking
plunged
from an already low 61 to 84, which puts the country in the same league as Gabon and Swaziland, two countries notorious for violent and corrupt leaders who routinely trample on their citizens’ rights.
The pound
plunged
to its lowest level in more than three decades immediately after the vote, and financial markets worldwide are likely to remain in turmoil as the long, complicated process of political and economic divorce from the EU is negotiated.
Is it really any wonder that popular support for the governing parties that complied with this diktat
plunged
from 69% in the 2009 European Parliament election to 31% in 2014, that a far-left coalition demanding debt justice topped the poll, or that the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party finished third?
Rather than helping Greece to overcome its crisis, the austerity policies pursued since May 2010 have
plunged
it into a deep recession that perpetuates fiscal deficits and aggravates financial uncertainty.
Egypt’s fears are mainly of Sudan’s disintegration into a chaotic tapestry of mini-states controlled by warlords and
plunged
into lawlessness and bloody tribal feuds.
Sterling has
plunged.
The Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in June
plunged
the EU into a renewed period of uncertainty about the Union’s future.
With that, India’s economy was
plunged
into chaos.
The US invaded in 2003 on false pretenses (Saddam’s alleged but nonexistent weapons of mass destruction), squandered another $800 billion in direct military outlays, destabilized the country, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, and, contrary to stated US objectives,
plunged
the region into turmoil.
Even in India – long thought to be among Asia’s most shock-resistant economies – annual export growth
plunged
from 44% in August 2011 to just 11% in October.
Now, poor rains, crop shortages, and continuing conflict could cause millions to be
plunged
back into life-threatening levels of hunger and malnutrition.
Support for her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU),
plunged
to its lowest level since 1949.
In 1998, during the depths of the Asian crisis, aggregate output in the so-called ASEAN-5 – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam –
plunged
by 8.3%.
As the region moved from hard exchange-rate pegs to floating rates, Asian currencies
plunged
– with drops against the dollar ranging from 28% in South Korea and roughly 37% in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines to almost 80% in Indonesia.
Furthermore, this period of monetary tightening had unexpected consequences; financial institutions like Citicorp found that only regulatory forbearance saved them from having to declare bankruptcy, and much of Latin America was
plunged
into a depression that lasted more than five years.
Iraqis are rid of a dictator responsible for the deaths of at least one million Iraqis, a man who
plunged
the country into three wars in 24 years, and whose policies (with the international community’s complicity) kept ordinary Iraqis under the strictest sanctions ever imposed by the United Nations.
The result was that its electoral support
plunged
from 44% to 12%.
Indeed, with oil prices having
plunged
by 50% over the past year, the Fed stubbornly maintains that faster price growth – and the precious inflation rate of 2% – is just around the corner.
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