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It seems that this long-ignored reality is finally sinking in, pushing discussion of the post-2015 development agenda in the right direction.
The Three Fears Sinking Global MarketsLONDON – January is usually expected to be a good month for stock markets, with new money gushing into investment funds, while tax-related selling abates at the end of the year.
In the meantime, Italy is sinking.
Meanwhile, the Bush Administration will blame the sinking economy, bad luck, and unintentional miscalculations for the vanished surplus.
We are already beginning to see some of those closest to Assad desert what they rightly view as a sinking ship.
Part of the problem has been the sinking dollar, which makes dollar investments look bad when translated into yen or euro.
In a pathetic spectacle of incompetence, Japan's economy is sinking, its public finances moving to junk bond status.
Even so, Putin does seem genuinely popular among a public longing for a leader who can anchor their country without sinking it.
Rather than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, the EU needs to address why the ship is sinking.
The US was on the verge of sinking into isolationist nationalism, reinforced, perhaps, by xenophobic sentiment.
But, given the US housing market’s fragility, raising interest rates could cause prices to plummet, sinking the economy again.
The world urgently needs to create a political mechanism to help these countries escape the quagmire into which they are sinking.
But losing out, for a subsistence farmer, means sinking into dire poverty and hunger.
But if Bashir Assad wants Syria to avoid sinking deeper into poverty and irrelevance, he must undertake political, cultural, and economic liberalization.
Those war games were, most immediately, a warning to North Korea of the strength of America’s commitment to South Korea, following the North’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan earlier this year.
US debt hardly looks like a bargain right now, even without the sinking dollar.
The tide of disarmament is rising, yet the CD is in danger of sinking.
The cost has included the North’s sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan, and shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, in 2010.
The presence of civilians, many of whom had to be evacuated, made North Korea’s attack even more provocative than its sinking in March of the South Korean warship Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors.
Sink or Swim in the PhilippinesMANILA – The tragedy of the sinking of the Princess of the Stars ferry in the waters off Romblon in the Philippines – with hundreds of corpses still believed trapped inside – is proof that the country is prone not only to natural calamities, but to manmade ones as well.
Migration and Memory in EuropeROME – Stories of migrant-laden ships sinking in the Mediterranean while trying to reach the shores of Europe, and of refugees dying at Calais while trying to enter Britain through the Eurotunnel, have lately become ubiquitous in Europe.
On a panel entitled “The Rising Powers and Global Governance,” Patriota referred to the energy discussion and noted that the rising powers should remember that “the established powers are not sinking powers.”
This disparity’s most worrying aspect is that profit-driven traders are not wrong to snap up the paper assets of a sinking country.
At this rate, Venice’s fragile embroidery of calli, campi, and palazzi, draped over sinking sediment, could be washed away within decades.
But the project, launched in 1984 – when Venice was already sinking – and inaugurated in 2003, was supposed to be completed in 2011.
The reality of climate change is sinking in, with millions now feeling its effects – from rising sea levels and disappearing coastlines to more frequent extreme weather such as droughts, floods, and wildfires.
With sinking demand for new housing causing a slump in the residential property market, many builders are struggling to repay their loans to banks, worsening the crisis.
Under these conditions, Argentina’s ship started sinking as soon as currents of the global economy shifted.
This is reflected in China’s crackdown in Hong Kong in the wake of its enactment of a harsh new national security law; the inhumane treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority; the clashes along its unsettled border with India; the sinking of a Vietnamese vessel in the disputed South China Sea; and regular displays of military strength near both Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands, which both China and Japan claim as their own.
But in these troubled times – with COVID-19 not yet vanquished, and the economy still sinking – sluggish centrism is not the worst outcome for Europe’s anchor power.
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