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And the credit crunch for non-investment-grade firms and smaller firms, which rely mostly on access to bank loans rather than capital markets, is still severe.
So, while the US may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near-depression.
Ahn’s most obvious merits are his personal history of overcoming severe challenges and his modest demeanor.
Unfortunately for China, the nature of Xi’s foreign-aid strategy all but guarantees severe delays for any political returns.
But the impact on poor countries is far more severe.
The long-term problems may be even more severe, with diseases that were once under control, such as measles and AIDS, running rampant among the refugee population, which intermingles easily with the culturally similar Colombians.
In response to the domestic and regional crises generated by the Maduro regime, the US has put in place severe trade and financial sanctions, and Trump has reportedly floated the idea of invading Venezuela.
Given his role in justifying electoral fraud, this argument seems like an effort to buy time to clear the streets of demonstrators, put opposition leaders under severe physical and psychological stress, and isolate Mir Hossein Mousavi, the presumed winner of the real vote.
The same is true of nuclear power, although there are always concerns that a severe accident could have major human and environmental consequences.
But the participants’ inability to reach a common position on their hosts’ nuclear program or the violence in Syria – two of the fundamental questions that confronted the summit – obviously undermined Iran’s effort to demonstrate that, despite facing severe economic and diplomatic sanctions, it remains an effective international player.
Countries like Greece, Italy, and arguably Portugal over-borrowed, and now their citizens face severe consequences.
All of this could make new savers happy, as returns on savings – which have been subject to severe financial repression for most of the last decade – begin to rise.
This perverse outcome becomes possible when there is severe technological dualism in the economy and the more productive activities do not expand rapidly enough.
Microfinancing Climate ResilienceLONDON – Vulnerable communities face the brunt of climate change – from rising sea levels and extreme weather events to prolonged severe droughts and flooding.
The main side-effect of statins, which lower cholesterol in the blood, is severe muscle inflammation, and it can now be predicted with a simple genotype test, as can the response to Plavix, the second most commonly prescribed drug after statins.
Genotyping can also predict severe liver toxicity for drugs such as flucloxacillin or lumiricoxib.
The disruption to the US economy would, no doubt, be severe.
The Lasting Damage of IraqMADRID – The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic chapter in the history of the United States.
Beyond causing severe economic damage to both sides, such an outcome would generate so much acrimony that the two sides would find it next to impossible to work out arrangements in myriad other areas, such as territorial defense and counter-terrorism, trade and sanctions, international diplomacy, and climate change.
Though interest rates across the European Union are at historic lows, government debt in the eurozone could come under severe pressure should bond markets re-evaluate the riskiness of sovereign borrowers.
The urban disturbances in France have been called the most severe since the riots by students and workers in 1968.
As early as 2015, the average Arab will be forced to survive on less than 500 cubic meters of water per year, a level defined as severe scarcity.
Europe’s Overly Complex UnionPRINCETON – The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this decade.
The stakes at the conference are thus exceptionally high, both for Syria and for its neighbors, which are straining against severe destabilization.
Admittedly, Croatia's problems never were as severe as those of the countries further east.
Even as development improves conditions, however, reducing carbon emissions would become increasingly important over the longer term as the impact of climate change become more severe.
The damage that can be done by such distorted journalism is especially severe in Africa, offending African value systems, distracting African energies, and disserving African development.
The alternate path, onto which continued political dysfunction would push the world, leads through a thicket of parochial and uncoordinated policies to economic recession, greater inequality, and severe financial instability.
Most of the eurozone remains mired in a severe recession – now spreading from the periphery to parts of the core.
That made the crisis more severe than any since World War II.
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