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Given the
severity
of this economic and financial crisis, financial markets will not mend for a while.
The current approach to market regulation has been based on this theory but the
severity
and amplitude of the crisis proves convincingly that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.
The information on the board consists of the number of women admitted, the type and
severity
of their conditions, and whether or not they survived.
Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.
The hope is that such reforms will reduce the likelihood and
severity
of systemic risk.
Periods of strong economic growth allow countries to put in place defenses to reduce the likelihood and
severity
of future downturns.
Likewise, Hank Paulson, Geithner’s predecessor under President George W. Bush, recently said, “my strong belief is that these crises are unpredictable in terms of cause or timing or the
severity
when they hit.”
We must mediate the
severity
of global warming, while simultaneously conserving the resilience of coral reefs.
Sexual harassment is the immediate focus of the Weinstein case, as it should be, given the
severity
of the alleged crimes and the distress caused to the victims.
Although severe assaults, including some gruesome rapes, may approach some murders in severity, and might conceivably call for capital punishment, I do not support its use in these cases.
If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the
severity
of punishments more generally should be matched to the
severity
of crimes).
And, in response to her comments, the authors did try to account for the
severity
of the government’s debt problem as perceived by the markets at the time that the plans were implemented, finding very similar results.
This state of affairs is worrying, to say the least, given the
severity
of harm that a single serious accident can cause.
He did eventually come to understand the nature and
severity
of the crisis, and then took decisive steps that contributed to halting the economic freefall.
For the most part, the
severity
and implications of the financial crisis were judged well.
The global economy’s downturn increases countries’ political risk to varying degrees, depending on the
severity
of the shock and the nature of the implied social contract.
Given the number and
severity
of problems currently plaguing civil aeronautics, the conventional approach of evolutionary changes to current paradigms is no longer sufficient.
Another similarity between Puerto Rico and Venezuela that is likely to emerge stems from the
severity
of the economic damage that has already been sustained.
The first step is to identify the incidence, prevalence, severity, and trends of work-related stress and its causes and health consequences.
So the
severity
of the bust was a function not simply of the level of household debt, but rather of the distribution of debt across income levels.
Before the post-referendum dust settles, the EU should set an ultimatum with clear and onerous principles for the UK’s exit – clarity to minimize the cost, and
severity
to deter populists in other member states from calling for exit referenda, too.
Trump’s wild exaggerations in recent weeks reveal the increasing
severity
of his symptoms.
Reducing the number and
severity
of crises is evidently desirable.
This, in turn, prolongs the length and
severity
of the illness, and can lead to death.
But David Wilcox, Director of Research and Statistics at the Fed, and his co-authors argue that the
severity
and duration of the downturn that began in December 2007 has been steadily eroding the capital stock and the size and skills of the labor force.
For example, the difficulties the EU faced in 2015 are likely only to grow in scale and
severity.
The
severity
of the effects will depend on how the UK and its European partners negotiate their tricky separation, particularly the extent to which free trade and financial passporting are upheld.
Its
severity
will be determined by whether the government makes difficult adjustments today or – like Japan in the 1990s – tries to wish the termites away.
Deforestation can thus have a destabilizing effect on weather patterns, amplifying the frequency and
severity
of extreme events such as floods and droughts.
Terrible destruction -- in thousands of lives, and billions of dollars of property in very poor economies -- would be bad enough without another sneaking suspicion: that the rich countries may be inadvertent factors in the
severity
of recent events.
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