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That is the most anemic consumer recovery on record – fully 1.5 percentage points slower than the 12-year pre-crisis trend of 3.6% that prevailed between 1996 and 2007.
And, while the personal saving rate rose to 5% of disposable income in the first half of 2011 from the rock-bottom 1.2% low hit in mid-2005, this is far short of the nearly 8% norm that prevailed during the last 30 years of the twentieth century.
That is why she adopted a hard line in a recent protracted wage dispute with public-sector workers – in which she ultimately prevailed, despite opposition within her own party.
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush prevailed in the electoral college.
These inflated asset prices reflect the exceptionally easy monetary policy that has prevailed for almost a decade.
Her response to the European crisis has prevailed – or at least that is the impression that she conveys, and that most Germans believe.
By good politics, I mean the internationalism, freedom of expression, and accountable governance that prevailed during the post-war era of prosperity.
That means reinstating the kind of economics that prevailed from the 1940s to the 1970s, until it was swept away by President Ronald Reagan in the United States and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the UK.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prevailed in Uttar Pradesh – India’s largest state, which is home to more than 200 million people and has produced seven of 15 prime ministers – and in neighboring Uttarakhand.
The blood-soaked politics that have prevailed since September 2000 exposed the extreme vulnerability of this development strategy, making urgent the need to rethink the economic foundations of the Palestinian territories.
Indeed, the remarkable unanimity that prevailed in the first phase of the financial crisis that began in 2008, and which culminated in the $1 trillion rescue package put together for the London G-20 meeting in April 2009, dissipated long ago.
But mistrust again prevailed, and a cold peace ensued.
In Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, Iranian proxies have prevailed over Saudi-backed groups.
Beyond NATO’s Libyan RedemptionSINGAPORE – While NATO probably will not want to replicate its Libya intervention anywhere else anytime soon, it appears that the alliance, with a little help from its friends, has prevailed in Libya, succeeding in toppling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Much of the euro’s design reflects the neoliberal economic doctrines that prevailed when the single currency was conceived.
More from "Zone Defense"Much of the euro’s design reflects the neoliberal economic doctrines that prevailed when the single currency was conceived.
“Economic logic prevailed,” says Sukhdev.
Today, it is difficult to imagine the mindset that prevailed before Margaret Thatcher came to power in the United Kingdom in 1979 and Ronald Reagan in the United States in 1981.
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and Voet’s anti-Jewish campaign had little lasting influence on public policy in the Netherlands.
Unless Montenegro's Djukanovic can be prevailed upon to work with the opposition in order to strip Milosevic of power by stripping him of his puppet prime minister, elections and compromises are the way to a democratic Serbia.
But, when there was a conflict, WTO rules prevailed, because they conferred enforceable rights that extended to all WTO members, whereas PTA-defined rights extended only to the PTA’s few members.
During the first two decades after the Cold War, a combination of suspicion and pragmatism prevailed on both sides, with competition in some respects and cooperation in others playing a crucial role in coping with important international challenges.
Hamas timed these revelations with the disengagement to create the impression that its intensifying military strategy had prevailed.
Though the current rate of 7% is comfortable, it is far lower than the double-digit rates that prevailed prior to 2008.
Here is one very critical example: there was no European country in the recent crisis over Kosovo which could have prevailed militarily on its own against Serbia, a country of ten million people that is rather poor and backward.
But the democratic opposition prevailed in the 1988 plebiscite, and Pinochet had to go.
To this day, I remember vividly the sense of general anxiety that prevailed among citizens, accentuated by deep concern about what the future might hold.
The “extremists,” whom Bush expected to be defeated through economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and military action, have prevailed.
Ultimately, America’s vital interests prevailed.
And China prevailed upon the Cambodian host of this year’s ASEAN summit to block a final communiqué that would have called for a code of conduct in the South China Sea – the first time in the ten-member association’s four-decade history that it failed to issue a communiqué.
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