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Live Long and ProsperLiving a long time is one of our deepest wishes, and medical and economic progress offers the hope that it will be fulfilled.
Life expectancy might well be only 80 years by mid-century – about where it is now in advanced countries – if medical progress is disappointing or is offset by new threats or hazards.
One reason for the renminbi’s continued weakness in international finance is that, despite considerable progress since 2010, it remains a half-baked international currency.
Progress on disinflation is similarly impressive.
Yet there are critical international issues – such as Iran and Syria – on which progress is not likely without some cooperation.
In reviewing these efforts, one constant stands out: the US has made the most progress on issues where Russia has felt that America respected its interests.
Progress may require the simultaneous use of multiple arenas.
Progress in some areas need not wait for progress in others.
Progress requires identifying errors, which in turn calls for heterodox thinking.
Moreover, while there is plenty of blame to go around on all sides, America’s change of policy stalled for years the potential for progress in relations between the six parties.
While trying to build on the limited progress of recent years, they will have to confront a number of additional obstacles in building a cohesive and sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula.
As Obama’s new administration takes over, the choice is between making some progress, as has occurred in recent years, and facing a nuclear North Korea.
To enable progress, confidentiality was vital (despite US negotiators’ claims that the discussions were wholly transparent).
Progress, it is true, is the child of small successes, and to that extent success in the Balkans may catalyze progress towards a new order of European stability.
To make progress in corporate governance at state-controlled companies Putin does not need new laws or IMF loans.
But progress soon stalled, with Russia rejecting US proposals for further reductions, especially of tactical nuclear weapons – an area in which Russia dominates.
Such a system would go a long way toward supporting progress toward the SDGs.
We should celebrate the progress we have made against disease, famine, and poverty.
And we should continue to advance that progress, by focusing on the smart development investments needed to resolve the real problems we face.
Similar progress was made up the Euphrates, where a smaller force protected Townshend's flank.
Some 50,000 men were involved in the new operation, but progress was slow because of rain and the need to keep casualties to a minimum.
He has become a nearly revered figure in his country, and large segments of Western public opinion believe that his political demise represents a potentially fatal blow to any hope of progress in the region, even as he remains hated in large parts of the Arab and Muslim world.
The natural course of history in the most optimistic sense is progress “at the margin,” but the rapid pace of technological change is pushing us to expect equally rapid progress in human affairs.
Converging countries are closing the gap with the affluent OECD countries; struggling countries have failed to progress from middle-income status; and poor countries – most of them in Africa – are mired in extreme poverty.
That is why, in the current interest-rate environment, the Maastricht Treaty’s requirement limiting public debt to 60% of GDP is meaningless – and why the so-called “fiscal compact” requiring countries to make continued progress toward that level should be reconsidered.
For starters, political risks could derail progress.
The second is to launch a preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the Iranian program and setting back its progress by an estimated two or more years.
These two scenarios follow a familiar story line: technological progress, such as the development of nuclear power, genetically modified organisms, information technologies, and synthetic organic chemistry, first promises salvation, but then threatens doom as the consequences, often environmental, become apparent.
Differentiation should not mean division, but rather progress at variable speeds.
Moreover, Russia’s default and devaluation in 1998 undermined the progress that was accomplished – starting in 1996 – in the banking sector and the capital markets in general.
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