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The currency was in theory governed by a rules-based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.
In view of the Trump administration’s political ineffectiveness, it is safe to assume that if there is any stimulus at all, it will be smaller than expected.
Others, such as Robert Dahl, argue that democracy requires smaller communities based on shared interests and personal relations.
As a result, the need for government transfers, such as health benefits and state pensions will increase, but the relatively smaller share of working taxpayers in the population will make it harder to pay these charges.
Relative to demographics, the size of government net debt plays a smaller role in most countries.
It is possible that, properly measured, the true deficits were smaller than has been reported, and even that, in some years, they were not there at all.
In one respect the Bundesbank need not worry: The larger the number and the clout of the countries pegging their currencies to the D-Mark, the smaller the impact of the fluctuations of the US dollar exchange rate on the German economy.
The bottom line is that Social Security’s long-term funding difficulty, while real, is projected to be much smaller and much further in the future than any of the nearer, larger, and more significant fiscal problems currently facing the US government.
The leaders of smaller nations must also consider, in contexts like global warming, trade pacts, foreign aid and the treatment of refugees, to what extent they are prepared to consider the interests of "outsiders”.
Indeed, there have been many smaller “booms” – in consumption, foreign direct investment, domestic stock markets, trade, travel, overseas study, military modernization, and international diplomacy.
New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.
Indeed, in pursuing rapid industrialization, megacities have often been less successful than smaller cities – which have largely evaded such constraints – in accumulating productive capital, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), and demonstrating entrepreneurial spirit.
But while the success of smaller cities is to be celebrated, it is China’s megacities where the greatest potential to fuel future progress in productivity – and thus GDP growth – is to be found.
If gas taxes are high and consumption is low, as in Europe, fluctuations in the world price of oil have a smaller effect domestically.
Often, the incremental growth that comes with a trade opening is unevenly shared; moreover, in many cases, some receive a smaller share than they did before.
After the recent summit, Abe revealed that Putin now seems to be reneging on a 1956 agreement between Japan and the Soviet Union, which stipulates that the smaller two of the four islands will be returned to Japan after a peace treaty is signed.
But a recent International Monetary Fund report reveals the startling fact that China has now surpassed Japan and South Korea in square meters of housing per capita, having reached a level near – or, in some smaller cities, well above – the European average.
Jean Monnet, the French economist who is considered one of the modern EU’s founders, was renowned for his ability to turn big political conflicts into smaller technical issues.
Clinton has similar spending and tax priorities, though with smaller increases.
As a result, the pie often becomes smaller, and some countries end up very unhappy.
Moreover, such projects make a far smaller contribution to US and global security and well-being than do other American foreign policies – policies that the US should make every effort to continue.
Motion scaling – which allows the robotic arms to mimic the exact movements of the surgeon’s hands, but on a much smaller scale – will enable surgeons to manipulate tissue that is too small for the naked eye to detect.
With the development of smaller microsurgical tools and high-performance cameras and monitors, operating at the cellular level will be possible.
There were also, according to Putin’s regime, too many public institutions performing too many activities with insufficient oversight, so they were made smaller and given specific tasks from a short centralized list of priorities.
Despite the value that smaller companies bring to the region’s customers and economies, first-time business owners too often are on their own.
Now it can offer fast and free delivery, which smaller companies cannot beat.
And, until Greece’s crisis in 2010, the country’s fiscal deficits and debt burden were thought to be much smaller than they were, thanks to the use of financial derivatives and creative accounting by the Greek government.
Compared to manufacturing, they have much smaller resource and carbon footprints.
The trajectory of China’s ballistic missile R&D and production shows a gradual transition from copying and reproducing first-generation Soviet ballistic-missile technologies to adapting and modifying smaller, mobile, solid-propellant ballistic missiles and their follow-on second-generation systems.
Latin American countries had to seek debt reduction when their debt burdens were smaller.
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