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Today, the leading edge of that dénouement is the impending decision on the next
round
of Greek aid, which threatens to break the mold on the scale of official debt forgiveness, defy the IMF’s presumed insulation from default, and fundamentally alter the eurozone’s legal framework.
Hong Kong’s government should now offer its people a proper second
round
of consultation, one that is open and honest.
Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, for the first time explicitly warned the Israelis that a new
round
of conflict would no longer be confined to an Israeli-Lebanese showdown, but would involve the entire regional “axis of confrontation” – Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
We must not ignore the grave dangers that it would pose for Pakistan, where a new
round
of jihadist rhetoric and mobilization could be fatal to hopes of building a stable and more secure country.
On November 1, the day after the first
round
of voting that later pitted Kuchma against Simonenko, three governors were unceremoniously dismissed when returns in their oblasts did not favor Kuchma.
Victor Pinchuk, a powerful figure from Kuchma's home town of Dnipropetrovsk, and the boyfriend of the President's daughter, secured a profitable metalworks in a September
round
of privatization.
The US pleads for understanding; elections are coming in November, and voters in West Virginia and other states must be "bribed" to accept a new
round
of trade negotiations.
But Russians’ lives are not getting any better, especially after the latest
round
of Western economic sanctions – and Putin’s declining approval rating shows it.
If anything, Israel has accelerated settlement construction since the latest
round
of talks began, while escalating its demands, especially regarding the stationing of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley.
In the latest
round
of negotiations, however, this division has not been a major obstacle, because Hamas remained on the sidelines – neither participating nor seeking to play a spoiler role.
The legitimacy of the new Commission will only be strengthened after a second
round
of scrutiny.
When the Fed launched its first
round
of quantitative easing (QE) – large-scale purchases of long-term financial assets – in 2009, policymakers declared that the goal was to kick-start the US economy.
At the annual Fed conference at Jackson Hole, Wyoming in August, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke explained that he was considering a new
round
of quantitative easing (dubbed QE2), in which the Fed would buy a substantial volume of long-term Treasury bonds, thereby inducing bondholders to shift their wealth into equities.
A few years ago, when the US Federal Reserve embarked on yet another
round
of “quantitative easing,” some emerging-market leaders complained loudly.
Two such stylish personalities have so far commandeered the public opinion polls, and appear destined to meet in the second
round.
So Sarkozy and Royal are universally expected to be the two leading candidates heading into the “High Noon” encounter of the second
round.
The spillover from the developed countries’ latest
round
of QE is beginning to show up in emerging markets, where nearly a year of short-term capital outflows has given way to a new wave of short-term inflows.
While the Fed’s first
round
of quantitative easing helped to end the financial-market turmoil that occurred in the depths of the recent crisis, two subsequent rounds – including the current, open-ended QE3 – have done little to alleviate the lingering pressure on over-extended American consumers.
The absence of a new
round
of fiscal stimulus indicates that the Chinese government is satisfied with a 7.5-8% GDP growth rate – a far cry from the earlier addiction to growth rates around 10%.
Following this spring’s
round
of North Korean provocations, Xi appears to have concluded that enough is enough.
Indeed, before the WTO ministerial meeting in Doha earlier this year, India's line was to oppose the launch of a new trade round, resist further trade liberalization in industrial goods, and oppose the use of trade sanctions to punish countries that fail to meet minimal labor standards.
It is right for India to have opposed injecting international labor standards into the WTO agenda, but it is wrong that India strongly opposed a new trade
round.
The regime’s desire to get al-Ahmar out of the picture became clear during the last
round
of fighting aginst the Houthis in 2009-2010, when Saudi Arabia began bombing the rebels.
The current
round
of monetary easing underway in many advanced countries, together with strong expectations of renminbi appreciation, are also fueling currency speculation, placing further upward pressure on the exchange rate.
Still, while Trump was in the Middle East, the US Congress began considering a new
round
of sanctions to punish Iran for its continued meddling in Syria, and for its support for groups deemed to be terrorist, such as Hezbollah.
Yet can any “development round” worthy of its name ignore this challenge?
There is also the US Federal Reserve’s announcement that, if the economy progresses as expected, the last bond purchase from the
round
of quantitative easing that it began in September 2012 will be in the month after the Federal Open Market Committee’s October 2014 meeting.
In the first
round
of French presidential elections, the extreme right and left received more than 30% of the vote, with Martine Le Pen’s anti-EU National Front threatening to supplant the center-right Union for a Popular Movement as the country’s new mainstream rightist party.
America’s Sequestered RecoveryBERKELEY – The United States is confronting another
round
of cuts in federal government spending, this time threatening to trim at least 0.5 percentage points from GDP growth and to precipitate a loss of at least one million jobs.
These conditions describe the US economy as it faces yet another
round
of government spending cuts that would have negative multiplier effects on GDP and job growth.
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