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The housing boom in the United States might never have reached the proportions that it did if homeowners had been unable to treat interest payments on home loans as a tax deduction.
So there was nothing to stop these social epidemics from attaining ridiculous proportions.
CAMBRIDGE – The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia’s return to what might be considered its historical proportions of the world’s population and economy.
It has taken a tragedy of great proportions to prompt some leaders to act to avoid similar calamities at nuclear reactors elsewhere in the world.
To this end, some automobile manufacturers have adjusted their designs to allow for easy disassembly of parts made of compatible plastics, while governments have set recycling target proportions for end-of-life vehicles.
It would be a mistake of historic proportions to delay it.
By 2010, the proportions were roughly 2%, 17%, and 81%, respectively.
But any agreement at, say, the G-8 Summit in July to disperse such aid in the massive proportions advocated by the recent Report by the Blair Commission on Africa may be difficult to achieve.
Egyptians need only glance north, at the European debt crisis, to understand they should sort out their debt problem now, rather than waiting until it reaches Greek proportions.
In the words of David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary and current president of the International Rescue Committee, the disaster in Syria has reached “almost biblical proportions.”
Europeans avoided a disaster of historic proportions in last month’s French presidential election.
For how can a country reach meltdown proportions when, only a few months back, barely a problem existed.
A New Approach to MENA’s Refugee CrisisBEIRUT – The human toll from violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has reached historic proportions.
As he did with the workers at a Whirlpool plant in northern France, he must bring the work of politics back to its right and reasonable proportions.
On the Bombing of AleppoNEW YORK – The world is witnessing in Syria a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions.
The predicted shift of the Parliament to the left - not of tectonic, but still of tangible proportions - has happened.
In 1996, the 92-year-old Kennan warned that NATO’s expansion into former Soviet territory was a “strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions.”
These undesirable consequences of the expansion of world markets have assumed alarming proportions within a relatively short period of time.
Recently, since the Cyprus rescue, the private sector’s disadvantage, particularly for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), increased to crisis proportions.
Getting tough on China while ignoring those consequences could be a blunder of epic proportions.
Indeed, by now the evidence that television watching is a dangerous habit has grown to such proportions that it is a wonder that stronger warnings and effective prevention have not been adopted.
The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions.
In the 2008 angry zeitgeist, the public reaction to a relatively minor event took on stunning proportions.
All countries redistribute some income through taxation, but in vastly different proportions, with more unequal countries, such as the US and the United Kingdom, tending to redistribute more.
The third option would be to introduce a new rule conditioning sovereign bonds’ zero-risk weight on banks’ willingness to hold them in certain proportions – for example, relative to GDP.
China and other developing Asian economies are experiencing an industrial accident crisis of world-historical proportions.
Even seemingly purposeful projects can seriously backfire: only a few years ago, Europe’s well-intentioned efforts to stimulate renewables resulted in a solar energy bubble of macroeconomic proportions.
I hope that this year the Nobel committee will recognize the importance of theoretical work and give the prize in the correct proportions: to a single experimental physicist, for developing the technological concepts behind LIGO, and to two pure theoreticians: Trautman and Damour.
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
Although the generations alive today have witnessed two completely unexpected crises of epic proportions within the last 20 years, we indulge in a shocking collective repression of a climate disaster with far more serious – and foreseeable – consequences.
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