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Out on the street, pessimism runs rampant.
Given rampant distrust of politicians and widespread frustration with the state of the economy, it would be difficult for any leader – except perhaps in Germany – to campaign successfully for reelection.
Instead, corruption is rampant.
And throughout Europe, populism in one guise or another is running rampant.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the G-20 seemed to help governments to coordinate their actions and avoid rampant protectionism.
America’s Oil-Spill NationalismLONDON – American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided.
A visitor in Cuba finds many ready to complain, but the palpable fear and visceral hatred rampant in El Salvador and Chile in the 1980's is absent in today's Cuba.
India not only livened up a game that was originally invented in staid and decorous Victorian England; it also brought the game into the twenty-first century, complete with rampant commercialization.
For decades, due to rampant protectionism, the ratio of Brazil's exports to GNP was one of the lowest in the world.
The result has been rampant misconceptions about what drove Putin’s shift from what seemed to be a modernizing, conciliatory, and even pro-Western stance to aggressive revisionism.
A Russian public anxious about its status; a Chinese people concerned about rampant corruption; a Turkish population divided over ethnicity and religion: All create enabling environments for leaders who feel a psychological need for power.
At the same time, Norway launched an innovative $1 billion program with Brazil to induce poor communities in the Amazon to end rampant deforestation.
But this assumes that the governments of EU member states finally accept their political responsibility and, instead of pandering to rampant enlargement fatigue, take decisive steps against it.
But if outside money is to flow, Blair must get the Palestinian government to rein in its rampant corruption.
This fund would be aimed not only at poor countries, but at some middle income countries like South Africa where diseases like AIDS are so rampant that the volume of drugs needed to combat disease cannot be purchased even at reduced prices.
When UNMIL was initiated in 2003, Liberia had just emerged from a brutal 14-year civil war, during which physical and sexual violence against women was rampant.
Calls are rampant for surrendering fiscal sovereignty; for dramatic recapitalization of the financially vulnerable banking system; and/or for Greece and possibly other distressed eurozone members to quit the euro (or for establishing an interim two-tier monetary union).
At the same time, the new leaders need to “sell” Europe in Italy, where Euro-skepticism is rampant.
China’s Fire Next TimeBEIJING – Earlier this year, rumors of China’s impending financial doom – triggered by either a housing-market crash or local-government debt defaults – were rampant.
One agency where large-scale graft and corruption was traditionally rampant was the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Without such a basic democratic foundation, our rampant individualisms will deliver us, in time, to a more civilized form of that pre-social situation, once described by Thomas Hobbes, in which everyone is free and a man is a wolf to every other man.
Many emerging markets will also want to engage in countercyclical macroeconomic policy, but they are hemmed in by concerns of fiscal sustainability and fear of rampant inflation.
Yet Indonesian officials waver from assuring the Chinese that they retain equal rights as citizens, and they have allowed various forms of discrimination to run rampant.
As if on cue, that facade began to crumble, revealing an inconvenient truth: factors like high commodity prices and massive capital inflows had been concealing serious economic weaknesses, while legitimizing a culture of garish inequality and rampant corruption.
Another global challenge is taxation, which requires international coordination to stanch rampant avoidance and evasion.
And the country’s burgeoning middle class, many of whom have taken to the streets since 2013, will no longer tolerate rising living costs, mediocre public services, state capture, and rampant corruption.
There is little doubt, however, that corruption has been rampant in China.
The country’s mounting problems – rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta – are yet to be seriously tackled.
So far, Russia, a country of little moderation, has alternated between rampant discussion or absolute silence and self-deception about Stalin.
And, considering the rampant corruption that plagues our continent, it might take a century to see male soccer teams managed and funded sufficiently.
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