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The exception has been China’s dramatic stimulus measures, which, being industrial policies, will be a source of severe trouble in the future.
Both countries – indeed, the world – would be better served by a diplomatic outcome in which Iran accepted severe limits on any independent uranium enrichment activity it could undertake and agreed to place all of its nuclear-related facilities under highly intrusive international inspection in exchange for economic benefits and security assurances.
The Wealth of SpeciesAlthough broad scientific consensus has identified the loss of biological diversity as one of the world's most severe environmental threats, public recognition of the scale of the danger is lagging.
Considering the FAO’s conservative definition of chronic severe hunger, this is a serious indictment of global poverty-reduction efforts.
Many countries and regions are already under severe water stress, which will only intensify as climate change causes natural disasters and extreme weather events like droughts to become increasingly common.
After expeditiously restoring confidence in the banks by forcing them to undergo severe stress tests, they gave households time to repair their balance sheets.
In fact, many respondents in Britain said the stigma of receiving free food was so severe that “fear” and “embarrassment” were common emotions.
Indeed, given that Iran has so far survived severe international sanctions, its leaders believe that they could get an offer from the US after the election – particularly if Romney wins – that recognizes their right to enrich uranium.
The only alternative was severe fiscal austerity, for which the government never mustered the political will.
After all, rates of severe mental illness are about the same across the developed world, yet the US seems to have more such shootings than do other countries.
Americans must acknowledge that educational and medical privacy laws require limited exceptions for notification of family and authorities when clear signs of severe mental illness surface, so that colleges and other institutions can take timely action.
Perhaps prudent loosening of the imminent-harm standard for involuntary commitment in clear cases of severe disorder might be helpful.
If he refused treatment and was released because he posed no imminent threat, his severe mental disorder would nonetheless have been diagnosed.
With charm and unassuming clear-headedness, she wrought a compromise from the G8 countries that may help save the world from the most severe devastations caused by global warming.
But the December 6, 1928, event began a sequence of increasingly severe one-day drops in the Dow over the course of the following year.
Without regard for the political consequences, Merkel is trying to escape the specifically German contradiction between national solutions and European constraints by advocating a rigorous fiscal-consolidation program, severe punishment for non-compliance (including loss of EU voting rights), and a trigger mechanism for member states that lag in meeting their obligations.
The troubling fact about the Great Depression is that it was severe, global, and lasted over a decade – and that it followed the collapse of an equity and real-estate boom, roughly as happened before the current crisis.
Conversely, the US must be prepared to lead international efforts to impose severe consequences on any party that plunges the country back into war.
Good economists have always understood that this method has severe limitations.
Perhaps Antonis Samaras’s center-right government from 2012 to 2015 came closest to succeeding, but it could not survive, politically, the severe austerity that it was being forced to impose.
The result, predictably, has been severe economic contraction.
This problem is particularly severe when the up-front action that seals the commitment has short-term benefits that are more attractive than burning the ship.
The two recent natural disasters in Burma and China have put this idea to a severe test.
And if those attacks include forcing Patel out, the blow to the RBI – the only well-respected technocratic institution in India’s mostly dysfunctional bureaucracy – would be severe.
Unmanaged climate change would so transform the planet that by the end of this century hundreds of millions of people would need to move, probably leading to severe and extended conflict.
Will it stay mild or turn more severe?
And experts worry that the novel H1N1 virus could mutate into a more severe strain.
And if H1N1 becomes more severe, people (and communities) who have prepared for that possibility will probably fare better than those who have not.
Eventually, a severe pandemic will strike, whether it’s H1N1 or not, and we should do what we can, now, to prepare.
India’s War on Antimicrobial ResistanceCHENNAI – Last year, a 30-year-old teacher suffering from a severe bloodstream infection arrived in my emergency room for treatment.
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