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Energy and commodity prices plunged.
As a result, all living things – us included – have been plunged into a sickening poisonous stew, with organisms that are unable to adapt pushed further toward extinction.
A Wrong Turn for Human RightsNEW YORK – The world has plunged into a period of brutality, with impunity for the perpetrators of violence.
Those answers plunged into depression territory between July and August, and the index of optimism based on answers to this question is at its lowest level since the oil-crisis-induced “great recession” of the early 1980’s.
This is a good time to do so, as these banks’ valuations have plunged.
Today's deflation arises from the state of anomie in which Japan was plunged in the mid-1990s and from which it has not recovered.
In Greece, the party system’s dangerous fragmentation into a range of smaller groups, combined with the robust emergence of a new anti-austerity left, Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza, and a neo-Nazi right, has plunged governance into to a state of total paralysis.
In fact, there is no definitive evidence that China’s potential growth rate has plunged.
Argentina has offered to compensate the company at “fair” market value, to be determined at some future date – presumably when the floor has dropped out of Repsol’s share price, which initially plunged nearly 60% from its previous high, and is still down 40%.
Imagining RecessionThe world’s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months.
Given this, purging Detroit’s balance sheet (specifically, the disproportionate unfunded liabilities that have plunged it deep into the red) is the best – maybe even the only – available path to renewal.
With the collapse in the price of oil since then, the economy has gone into a tailspin: GDP is contracting at a record pace, inflation is in excess of 200%, the currency has plunged to less than 10% of its previous value, and massive shortages have emerged.
Whole communities can be plunged into deeper levels of poverty as health-care workers struggle to contain outbreaks.
Investment in public infrastructure in the US has plunged to less than 2% of GDP, its lowest level since the federal government started tracking these data in 1992.
Now more than ever, it is worth remembering that the last great financial crash not only inspired the New Deal in the United States, but also plunged the world into a new dark age of economic nationalism and imperialism.
On the contrary, the euro has plunged southern Europe and France into a deep economic crisis that is fraying the nerves of all involved.
Obama plunged into Mexico’s drug war at the outset of his administration, and now faces perils that are barely touched upon in Washington, except in cables originating in Mexico.
The economy contracted by 6.8% year on year in 2014, and output has plunged by 15% in each of the two last quarters.
Like the PLO presence in Lebanon until 1982, this strategy plunged hapless host countries into civil war and provoked invasions by stronger powers, in turn spurring more extremist movements – the Khmer Rouge, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.
The price of oil has plunged, pushing petroleum producers into crisis.
The pound has duly plunged on currency markets, anticipating the economic harm of a hard Brexit: costly trade barriers – customs controls, rules-of-origin requirements, import duties, and discriminatory regulation – will divide UK and EU markets and affect nearly half of Britain’s trade.
Immediately after this declaration, however, prices of European bank stocks plunged, and Dijsselbloem was accused by many (including some of his colleagues) of having poured oil on a burning fire.
MUNICH – Almost exactly eight years ago, the Lehman Brothers collapse plunged the global economy into recession.
But if you merely ask, “At what, exactly, is the gyroscope pointed?” you are plunged headlong into one of physics’ deepest questions, one that led Einstein to develop his general theory of relativity – and that, even today, has no definitive answer.
The resulting fiscal austerity plunged many below the poverty line and accelerated economic inequality, while many private institutions, having caused the 2008 bust, recovered on the public dime.
America's stock market plunged in October 1929, and the US and much of the world then fell into a Great Depression.
In the most recent crisis, the IMF imposed punitive interest rates and the countries concerned were plunged into deep recession.
This summer, Europe will commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, which plunged Europe into the abyss of modern nationalist violence.
The number of weddings in South Korea plunged from 435,000 in 1996 to 302,800 in 2015.
As a result, Ivory Coast was plunged in a deadly battle among four stakeholders.
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