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But, in recent years, it has suffered economic pain and skyrocketing unemployment, which reached 27% in 2013.
The agreement reached this month between UK and EU negotiators has only heightened the unease.
More than a billion years later, the energy from the blast reached Earth as an incredibly weak signal, lasting for about a tenth of a second.
Latin America’s Trump ProblemSANTIAGO – Donald Trump reached the White House by bringing out the worst in the United States’ electorate.
Choke points are reached when the available resources are insufficient to satisfy demand.
And he hasn’t independently reached your new ideas – the ideas that matter.
So the fact that no agreement has been reached on Syria forces us to reflect on the future difficulties that we will face in managing global security.
Neither Iran nor Turkey has reached that point.
Although the employment rate of women in Japan reached 69.5% in 2013, more than 60% of women leave the workplace prematurely, mostly owing to childbirth.
To be sure, the authorities have suffered some defections, with the most significant coming soon after the violence in Homs reached its peak, when the deputy energy minister resigned and joined the opposition.
Private-sector leverage declined and public-sector leverage reached – and exceeded – sustainable limits, with Greece being only the most extreme example.
A ceasefire with the gang leaders, reached under the previous government, dampened the violence for a while.
With the government now fighting back, violence has reached unprecedented levels: 250 deaths just in the first week of August.
It reached China in 49 AD, Europe after 700, the Americas in 1520, and Australia in l789.
The prior era of economic globalization reached its peak in 1914, and was set back by the world wars.
Adjusted for inflation, US military spending has reached its highest level since World War II.
But it is clear that they have not tried enough: the “stop” signal of unanchored inflation expectations, accelerating price growth, and spiking long-term interest rates – all of which tell us that we have reached the structural and expectational limits of expansionary policy – has not yet been flashed.
Considering that China’s total debt reached 282% of GDP last year – surpassing America’s debt level – further reckless lending to local governments and private enterprises from the shadow banking sector would hold the economy hostage to the growing risk of a financial crisis.
“The sub-prime crisis hasn’t yet reached the beaches of Copacabana,” Finance Minister Guido Mantega recently proclaimed.
As a result, China’s growth has reached a new plateau.
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which reached record levels in recent years, is retreating, which is evidence of investor caution, not any underlying lack of optimism about the region.
When I reached the Stockholm branch of Terrafem, a support organization for rape survivors, a volunteer told me that in her many years of experience, Sweden’s police, prosecutors, and magistrates had never mobilized in pursuit of any alleged perpetrator in ways remotely similar to their pursuit of Assange.
Mutual accusations reached a level unworthy of the common history and the close personal, cultural and economic ties between both countries.
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Dethroning King CoalMELBOURNE – Earlier this year, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm).
In the UK, the profits of financial intermediaries, which had averaged around 1.5% of the whole economy’s profits in the 1970’s, reached 15% in 2008.
Although politicians and voters are equally unwilling to admit it, the EU has reached a fork in the road.
Only with Europe-wide cooperation can an effective, mutually beneficial compromise be reached.
At its introduction the euro reached impressive heights, like a high-tech IPO.
The Eurozone’s Delayed ReckoningNEW YORK – The risks facing the eurozone have been reduced since the summer, when a Greek exit looked imminent and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy reached new and unsustainable heights.
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