Principal
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Creditors could be offered these par bonds, or a shorter-term bond with a higher coupon – but with debt
principal
marked down.
Advanced technologies are already making inroads into some of Latin America’s
principal
industries.
Moreover, a Palestinian state would not only comprise the West Bank and Gaza, but presumably would also have to accommodate the
principal
political parties in each area.
After the US, Germany is the
principal
donor of both economic and military aid to Israel.
If these were commercial loans, creditors would consider restructuring them – extending the payment schedule and typically writing down
principal.
Feldstein calculates that the one-time cost of
principal
reduction would be around $350 billion.
And he would understand that agencies and organizations such as the CBO, OMB, Joint Committee on Taxation, Tax Policy Center (TPC), and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities have a
principal
allegiance to facts, not to some donor or political master.
As a national leader, Thatcher’s
principal
achievements were to reverse Britain’s decline, which had gained momentum in the 1970’s, before her first term as Prime Minister in 1979.
In the 1980’s, its
principal
adversaries were the urban intelligentsia, who constituted the backbone of the pro-democracy movement that culminated in Tiananmen Square.
Ironically, while Khamenei is no fan of democracy, he relies on the fact that his
principal
enemies are bound by democratic constraints.
market should act given the fact that participation in the euro and political union was probably the
principal
motive for the Denmark’s “No” to euro membership and Britain’s reluctance.
The
principal
effect is likely to be a series of negative demand shocks: investors withdrawing, travelers staying home, and consumers closing their wallets.
This need not mean outright default; a plan to repay
principal
and interest with low-interest securities rather than cash – or to withhold income tax on interest earned from government bonds, crediting those taxes against the obligations of American taxpayers – would achieve the same result.
And it was after the Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive trade surpluses and become the
principal
source of capital flows to the US.
Japan, Vietnam, and even Singapore have reacted with consternation, highlighting the need for America to remain the
principal
guarantor of stability in Asia.
In Europe, this divergence is often attributed to what French President Charles de Gaulle used to refer to as America’s “exorbitant privilege”: the power to print the
principal
international reserve currency.
One of the biggest rounds of applause came when he said that President Barack Obama’s appointment of Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State after she had been his
principal
political rival proved that “democracy does not have to be a blood sport.”
In doing so, the Fed is relying on the “wealth effect” – brought about largely by increasing equity and home prices – as its
principal
transmission mechanism for stabilization policy.
One key of the
principal
reasons for the world’s economic growth from 2000-07, despite wars and terrorist atrocities, was that India and China joined the world economy.
One can carry out an orderly rescheduling of the PIIGS’ public debts without actually reducing the
principal
amount owed.
This solution limits the risk of contagion and the potential losses that financial institutions would bear if the value of debt
principal
were reduced.
One
principal
policy failure in the run-up to the crisis was a lack of imagination: we failed to appreciate just how intricate the global economic and financial web had become.
Manufacturing is undoubtedly the
principal
propellant in transforming human and natural resources into economic value – beneficiation, as we call it in southern Africa.
In Afghanistan, there are three
principal
legal references: constitutional law, the Koran, and the system of customary law known as Farhang, the most dominant and strictest version of which is called Pashtunwali (the way of the Pashtuns).
A family’s
principal
“cultural capital” is its honor, which is ensured by denying women any opportunity to highlight male failings and therefore tarnish clan respectability.
They provide the
principal
source of protein for over ten million people worldwide.
Historically, the
principal
agents of reef degradation have been over-fishing and pollution, not global warming.
Given that family and class dictate Syrian power dynamics as much as sect does, the regime’s
principal
beneficiaries have been select family members – such as Assad’s cousin, businessman Rami Makhlouf – and well-connected Sunni families in Damascus and Aleppo.
A hen’s beak is full of nerve tissue – it is, after all, her
principal
means of relating to her environment – but no anesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain.
The other
principal
attack on the Clinton administration’s record targets the deregulation of derivatives in 2000.
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