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They are not yet a serious threat to Megawati, only because they are not backed by Indonesia's powerful Islamic political parties.
Credit for the absence of a truly serious Islamic challenge, however, should perhaps be given to Indonesia's moderate and mainstream Muslim leaders and groups, such as Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadyah, who avoided incendiary words and deeds.
But some argue that the drawbacks in terms of the effect on the rest of the economy are too serious to ignore.
Given this demonstration of Europe’s Lilliputian instincts, if a G-3 ever becomes a reality, the only serious contender nowadays to join the US and China is India.
In 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union presented for India a serious strategic test, which the country has passed with flying colors.
After all, they don’t want someone controlling them who is both able and serious.
A recent study by Federal Reserve economists concluded that America’s protracted high unemployment will have serious adverse effects on GDP growth for years to come.
But as Europe's most recent parliamentary election shows, Sweden's Social Democrats--in power for 61 of the past 70 years--remain relatively immune to serious challenges from the right.
The Social Democrats argue that this reflects a serious health problem, while non-socialists suggest that the system is defective.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
For the most part, however, the serious gaps in communication and understanding between Russia and the West have yet to spill over into the high north.
Doing so will require keeping the door open for serious dialogue with Russia, aimed at identifying issues on which collaboration could be mutually beneficial.
But how serious was the threat?
Reigniting Emerging-Economy GrowthHONG KONG – It is no secret that emerging economies are facing serious challenges, which have undermined their once-explosive growth and weakened their development prospects.
Western democracies are facing serious internal threats – most notably, populist forces espousing dangerous policies like trade protectionism – that have risen largely in response to these systems’ failure to manage problems such as income inequality, political polarization, rising debt, and failing infrastructure.
Partly because of the floods, which will shave off at least 1% from GDP, partly because of the administration’s inability and unwillingness to curb non-essential expenditures, and partly because of slowing export growth, Pakistan is once again facing serious fiscal and balance-of-payments problems.
Though it probably wasn’t, as North Korean media claimed, a hydrogen bomb, whatever it was – probably a fission bomb – had more than enough explosive power to constitute a serious threat.
For example, the Tibetan Plateau, which contains the world’s third-largest store of ice, is warming at almost twice the average global rate, owing to the rare convergence of high altitudes and low latitudes – with potentially serious consequences for Asia’s freshwater supply.
It is worth mentioning, however, that a rapid deterioration of China’s current account will pose a serious challenge to the country.
At the same time, serious fighting has now spread into the heart of Damascus.
But the end is approaching, and serious thought must be given to several inherent dangers in the Syrian situation.
At a time when the major infrastructure companies of the US, Europe, and Japan will have serious excess capacity, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the US Export-Import Bank, the African Development Bank, and other public investment funds should be financing large-scale infrastructure spending in Africa, to build roads, power plants, ports, and telecommunications systems.
And Europe’s last blinders about Putin seem to have fallen, with the result that serious sanctions are almost certain to be imposed.
Wall Streeters, however, offer a counterargument: for any financial institution to, say, bet on the decline of the dollar against the yuan over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way is to put its survival at risk should the trades go wrong.
Similarly, any financial institution that bets on a sharp rise in long-term interest rates over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way also puts its survival at risk.
That is a serious goal, but also a challenge to America, and President Putin knows it.
Globalization’s detractors are right that free trade has created serious imbalances.
The digital revolution, despite its potential, also carries serious risks for privacy, security, jobs, and democracy – challenges that are compounded by the rising monopoly power of a few American and Chinese data giants, including Facebook and Google.
The fact that only eight “Big Pharma” firms are even attempting to develop new antibiotics and vaccines is a cause for serious concern.
The consequences of such “fake news” are serious.
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