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Then, in the hours after the vote, exit polls suggested parity between his Likud party and the center-left Zionist Union, led by his chief rival, Yitzhak Herzog, with a slight edge for the right-wing bloc.
Doing so might have slight effects on mood or memory function or impair speech control.
Significantly, the US current account was in slight surplus during the big tax cuts of 1964 and 1981 – in sharp contrast to today’s deficit of 2.6% of GDP.
The demographic challenges facing advanced economies are slight in comparison.
The answer depends on the shape of the US recession: if it is short and shallow, sufficient growth elsewhere will ensure only a slight global slowdown.
The Protocols of Rupert MurdochNEW YORK – Whenever I hear people on America’s Republican right call themselves “conservative,” I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock.
Where Mill says that the good of the individual, “either physical or moral,” is “not sufficient warrant” for state interference, Hart says that the individual’s physical good is sufficient warrant, if individuals are likely to neglect their own best interests and the interference with their liberty is slight.
Ireland’s projected budget for 2001 foresees a slight reduction in public expenditures, from 31% to 30.8% of GDP, and a simultaneous reduction of taxes by about .6% of GDP.
The risk may be slight, but if the consequences should it materialize are great enough, the expected cost of disaster may be sufficient to warrant defensive measures.
And, most notably, at last month’s G7 summit in Quebec, he showed unprecedented hostility toward America’s closest allies, launching personal attacks against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and backing out of the final communiqué in response to a perceived slight.
Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the “animal spirits" of businessmen and shoppers.
But the claim that such a slight change – from 2.7% in December to 2.9% in January (which observers view as an aberration, caused by seasonal factors) – could trigger a stock-market correction is in itself a strike against the fundamentalist view.
His dictum remains true today, though when it comes to measuring human development, I would suggest a slight revision: “Not everything that is counted counts for everything.”
With only a slight lag, complexity became manageable, and global supply chains’ linear model (something produced in country A is consumed in country B) gave way to a more complex model with more fragmented but more efficient supply networks.
Whereas wealthy countries hold the most World Bank shares, borrowing countries hold a slight majority of the shares (and the presidency) at the regional banks.
But the United Nations climate panel’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite: for “North America, there is medium confidence that there has been an overall slight tendency toward less dryness (wetting trend with more soil moisture and runoff).”
This bizarre transfer of office but not power – perhaps a slight improvement on state governors in the American south who used to hand their offices to their wives when their term-limits expired – is Putin’s scenario.
There is hope, however slight, that, unlike Putin, Medvedev may mean what he says.
That could bring its current account into balance – or even into slight deficit – by 2015.
The only slight difference is that the Fed is buying seven-year Treasury notes rather than three-month Treasury bills.
Fortunately, 2014 brought some progress on this front, in the form of a slight uptick (albeit from a very low base) in household consumption as a percentage of GDP.
In the last quarter of 2007 alone, Mexican issuers sold $1.5 billion in new mortgage-backed securities – a significant portion of $4.4 billion outstanding – with only a slight drop in prices to reflect globally induced risk, according to the publication Asset Securitization Report .
United Russia, on the other hand, based its campaign on the progress made during President Putin's tenure: notable economic growth and slight improvement in people's living standards.
A slight move of the steering wheel in the wrong direction would wreak havoc, but we cruise carefree, because we have reasonable expectations about the behavior of other drivers.
Thus, normal re-equilibration to “purchasing power parity” should give the dollar slight upward momentum.
Such flexibility, by allowing for slight incremental changes over time, would provide investors with greater certainty, as it would sweep aside today's worries about whether or not China can keep its exchange rate fixed at today's level or sharply devalue the RMB downward.
But with total cryptocurrency values still equal to just a minute fraction of global real-estate wealth, the overall risk remains slight.
The decision to ground flights was based on the view that any level of ash in the atmosphere posed some risk to aircraft, and that no matter how slight that risk might be, the government’s job was, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown put it, “to make sure that safety was paramount.”
“Anyone who gives even slight attention to the matter will easily see…the obvious advantages in the system….The various classes work together peacefully; socialist organizations and their activities are repressed.”
And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.
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