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Leaving the bloc – not like a rat scurrying off a sinking ship, but with style – is proof of British realism.
The Islamic Republic, with its back to the wall as sanctions bite, could also react by sinking a few ships to block the Strait of Hormuz, or by unleashing its proxies in the region – the pro-Iranian Shia in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Confronting the Fiscal BogeymanBERKELEY – The world economy is visibly sinking, and the policymakers who are supposed to be its stewards are tying themselves in knots.
Its sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 were unprecedented, and raised inter-Korean tensions to their highest level in decades.
Much of the decline in employment in Greece occurred prior to the sharp cuts in spending between 2012 and 2014 – owing, no doubt, to sinking confidence in the government.
Instead of sinking massive amounts of money into poorly performing school systems, Latin American governments would undoubtedly be interested in innovative solutions, such as tablet-based textbooks, that can help teachers provide effective lessons, monitor their students’ progress, and identify remediation strategies.
The Gambler of North KoreaSEOUL – After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.
The debate about how to respond is complicated by the fact that the Cheonan’s sinking does not seem to be a stand-alone event, but was, instead, part of a change in North Korea’s general pattern of behavior.
Without a strong and internationally coordinated response to the sinking of the Cheonan, such reckless provocations are not only likely to continue, but may become more frequent.
That said, Palin’s sinking approval ratings show that, while such women thrill to symbolic validation, they are not fools.
None of his ministers is particularly interested in new elections, but no one wants to go down with a sinking ship.
Beyond Europe this is true even for the recently acclaimed Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva, to say nothing of Mexican President Vicente Fox and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the latter having called for a referendum to help arrest his sinking popularity.
If they come to believe that Musharraf is sinking, they can be counted on to cut him loose, especially if he becomes a civilian.
But the headline-making stories of sinking boats and drowning children are just the beginning.
This created a two-speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the weight of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead.
Parts of Beijing are sinking by several centimeters per year, according to some estimates.
Today, the two largest Swiss banks are sinking in liabilities that exceed seven times the country’s income.
Faced with this, my former teacher and long-time colleague Barry Eichengreen has become positively alarmed: “The world economy is visibly sinking, and the policymakers who are supposed to be its stewards are tying themselves in knots.”
But it is important that we accept the fact that efforts to block migration are bound to fail, with disastrous consequences for human lives – whether they are lost on sinking boats in the Mediterranean and the Andaman Sea or threatened by xenophobic violence in South Africa, India, or elsewhere.
Sorkin’s book reminds us that only 18 months ago, the US administration saw one answer in the creation of bigger and bigger banks, on the shaky argument that lashing two sinking ships together would somehow make them both seaworthy.
Sinking the Sunshine PolicyLast week's naval battle between North and South Korean warships sank more than a South Korean frigate.
The temptation in Britain simply to abandon what appears to be a sinking ship and go it gloriously alone is growing stronger.
Sinking oil prices are clearly correlated with financial instability, but the lines of causation do not point in the direction most pundits seem to believe.
The Kursk and Russia’s DemocracyMOSCOW: Will the sinking of the submarine Kursk and the death of all its crew also sink the Putin revolution?
In short, the Middle East is sinking into deeper turmoil, and we are farther away from finding a solution in Syria, Egypt, and other key sources of regional instability.
From its refusal to condemn North Korea’s unprovoked sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan and shelling of South Korean islands, to its claims of sovereignty over various Japanese, Vietnamese, Malay, and Filipino archipelagos and newly conjured claims on India’s province of Arunachal Pradesh, China has revealed a neo-imperial swagger.
But the financial crisis is only one of several crises facing the country: the underlying macroeconomic problem has been made worse by the sinking fortunes of the bottom half of the population.
That recognition is gradually sinking in, at least in the government.
But let us also put aside the myth that the science of climate change is holed below the water line and is sinking fast on a sea of falsehoods.
The Next Bretton WoodsNEW YORK – The world is sinking into a major global slowdown, likely to be the worst in a quarter-century, perhaps since the Great Depression.
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