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Greece’s debt should be cut sharply, and the country should remain within the eurozone.
Designed as a local symbol of mourning, these poles, with their
sharply
angled roofs, remind viewers either of a peasant cross or a human figure with hands raised in prayer.
The consumption of veal has fallen
sharply
since it became widely known that to produce so-called “white” – actually pale pink – veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around.
Reported instances of hate crime have risen
sharply.
With the private sector in free fall, consumption and investment would decline
sharply.
So-called price-keeping operations by China’s monetary authorities (an approach tried in Japan in the early 1990s) are presumably the reason why the domestic stock market rose
sharply
over the last year, far beyond the levels warranted by the country’s economic fundamentals.
As a result, the global recovery remains anemic in most advanced economies (with the partial exception of the US and the UK) and now also in the major emerging countries, where growth has slowed
sharply
in the last two years.
Germany increasingly recognizes that if the adjustment needed to restore growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability in the eurozone’s periphery comes through austerity and internal devaluation rather than debt restructuring and exit (leading to the reintroduction of
sharply
depreciated national currencies), the cost will most likely be trillions of euros.
Leverage is down
sharply.
To this end, we have
sharply
accelerated the pace of negotiations on economic partnership agreements, or EPAs, with various partners around the world.
This, too, has risen sharply, and more is in store as temperatures rise.
This would
sharply
increase the use of fossil fuels, reduce much of the most polluting renewables, and provide energy access to 230 million more people.
But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half-century, could long afford to be relatively “soft” on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase
sharply
during the past twenty years.
But within countries, inequality has risen
sharply.
But temporary deflation need not be the terror that central bankers fear, at least if the banking system is recapitalized and if interest rates in the industrial countries fall
sharply.
Hence demand for commodities, which has been driven by emerging-market growth, has fallen sharply, and help decrease global inflation.
Since oil and food prices have fallen sharply, and probably have further to fall, while unemployment is soaring, our models suggest that consumer price inflation, particularly in the US, must fall at record rates over the next 6-12 months.
But this investment rate is likely to decline
sharply
over the next 5-10 years, because the country already boasts new infrastructure, has excess manufacturing capacity in many sectors, and is trying to shift economic activity to services – which require less investment.
Launched with nearly $600 million in funding from Germany, Japan, Norway, the UK charity Wellcome Trust, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEPI aims to reduce
sharply
the time it takes to develop and produce vaccines.
Membership has dropped
sharply
over the last quarter-century, and today less than one in ten private-sector American workers are union members.
After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has
sharply
reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.
The impacts of
sharply
rising oil prices and ongoing sovereign debt problems in Europe are also very worrisome.
Low-carbon paths of economic growth do not look all that different from high-carbon paths – until the latter veers
sharply
to the precipice of catastrophic failure.
That will
sharply
reduce the pace of foreign-exchange accumulation and cut into China’s open-ended demand for dollar-denominated assets.
Even if this does not trigger a crisis, it
sharply
narrows the government’s scope for using expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate the economy.
The former has a considerably lower standard of living, owing to its communist government and centrally planned economy, which contrast
sharply
with South Korea’s democratic government and mixed capitalist economy.
Indeed, monitoring of other solar-type stars has revealed one whose brightness decreased by 0.5% in a period of 5 years, during which its magnetic activity declined sharply, suggesting that the Sun behaves similarly.
The economy could rise more
sharply
than expected in the months ahead.
Financial Gain, Economic PainNEW YORK – In the past three months, global asset prices have rebounded sharply: stock prices have increased by more than 30% in advanced economies, and by much more in most emerging markets.
Prices of commodities – oil, energy, and minerals – have soared; corporate credit spreads (the difference between the yield of corporate and government bonds) have narrowed dramatically, as government-bond yields have increased sharply; volatility (the “fear gauge”) has fallen; and the dollar has weakened, as demand for safe dollar assets has abated.
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