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Given Europe’s current political balance, and taking into account its time-honored tradition of muddling through, the following stand out as minimum requirements for steering clear of the precipice:A growing chorus of European and world opinion is pushing in the direction of more growth-oriented policies.
With a corrupt and rudderless government, Africa’s most populous country has resumed its dance on the edge of the precipice.
The Cuban crisis began on October 16, 1962, when National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy presented to Kennedy photographs showing that the Soviet Union, then led by Nikita Khrushchev, had placed on the island – just 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Florida – ballistic missiles capable of launching nuclear weapons at major US cities.Suddenly, the world was on the precipice of a nuclear exchange that could lead to global annihilation.
If the world has not fallen off the protectionist precipice during the crisis, as it did during the 1930’s, much of the credit must go the social programs that conservatives and market fundamentalists would like to see scrapped.
The Harsh Lessons of 2009NEW YORK – The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to be perched in late 2008, and that 2010 will almost surely be better for most countries around the world.
Russia is moving toward precipice.
But right now, the global economy is teetering on the precipice of disaster.
For too long, Latin America has practiced the politics of the precipice.
He or she may have promised, even in public, that creditors would face losses, but on the edge of the precipice, which way will you, the beleaguered adviser, urge the president to go?
Indeed, China is on the precipice of becoming an environmental wasteland.
If policymakers are not careful, two problems, in particular, can reinforce each other, potentially pushing the economy over the precipice.
By contrast, the LTRO allows Italian and Spanish banks to engage in a very profitable and practically riskless arbitrage, but has kept government bonds hovering on the edge of a precipice – although the last few days brought some relief.
Ukraine is on the financial precipice.
The financial system may be more stable than it was five years ago, but that is a low bar – back then, it was teetering on the edge of a precipice.
But insufficient and sometimes counterproductive actions, coupled with panic and overreaction in financial markets, have brought some countries, such as Spain, which is a fundamentally solvent and strong economy, to the edge of the precipice, and with it the whole eurozone.
The Carbon CliffCAPE TOWN – We are perched on the edge of a precipice: a devastating overheating of the planet caused by fossil-fuel use.
If that extra loss pushes a systemically vital Citibank over the precipice, the clearinghouse has not reduced systemic risk as advertised.
The question, then, is why has Iran walked the precipice for so long by building a visible breakout capability bound to spook the West, Israel, and its Arab neighbors?
These policies have helped push Afghanistan to the precipice of state failure, while opening the way for the Islamic State to take over more than one-third of Iraq’s territory.
When French President Emmanuel Macron recently used extreme language to describe the EU as standing “on the edge of a precipice” and NATO as brain dead, he was being entirely accurate.
Anatomy of the Coronavirus CollapseITHACA – The world economy is on the precipice of its worst crisis since World War II.
With luck, and perhaps a little help from its friends, the US can dodge the 2020 election bullet and start repairing the social fractures that have helped bring it to this dangerous precipice.
And yet, less than a year after that speech, Trump ordered the assassination of Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qassem Suleimani, bringing the United States to the precipice of yet another war.
There is no desert, no precipice, no ocean I would not traverse with you.
The horse may be good, but can he mount a precipice?"
This movement was no sooner made, than Lawton caught a glimpse of the figure of a man stealing rapidly from his approach, and disappearing on the opposite side of the precipice.
Many boards of its covering were torn from their places, and its wide doors were lying, the one in front of the building, and the other halfway down the precipice, whither the wind had cast it.
The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high.
"But just Heaven, that seldom fails to watch over and aid good intentions, so aided mine that with my slight strength and with little exertion I pushed him over a precipice, where I left him, whether dead or alive I know not; and then, with greater speed than seemed possible in my terror and fatigue, I made my way into the mountains, without any other thought or purpose save that of hiding myself among them, and escaping my father and those despatched in search of me by his orders.
But all my care and pains were unavailing, for my master made the discovery that I was not a man, and harboured the same base designs as my servant; and as fortune does not always supply a remedy in cases of difficulty, and I had no precipice or ravine at hand down which to fling the master and cure his passion, as I had in the servant's case, I thought it a lesser evil to leave him and again conceal myself among these crags, than make trial of my strength and argument with him.
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