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Yet going from one extreme (keeping one’s spare cash under the bed) to the other (lending out money one does not have) is to cut out the sensible middle.
It has frequently cut off contracted supplies, imposed sanctions on friends and foes alike (including India), and reneged on delivering military goods and spare parts, in addition to being notoriously unwilling to transfer its best military technologies.
Life-saving drugs are in short supply, and equipment often does not work because of power cuts or the absence of spare parts.
Unless all of us do so, the consequences will spare none of us.
Although oil accounts for a smaller part of the energy mix nowadays and spare capacity is currently well ensured, chiefly by Saudi Arabia, a price shock would still have global effects – as such shocks have had in the past.
The UK has few price-sensitive exports for which there is significant spare capacity available to expand production.
Regulating marijuana – and the initiatives that could soon follow – has the potential to reduce violence at home and abroad, spare young people from undeserved criminal records, and reduce stigma among vulnerable people.
With little spare capacity available, the new investment and hiring required to replace Chinese goods would be at the cost of other business decisions that were more profitable before the tariff war with China.
If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites’ complicity in widespread impoverishment.
As the “great houses” of the United States and China compete for control of the “iron throne,” a global crisis that will spare no one becomes increasingly likely.
It would spare America and the world, in the words of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, "the danger that Iraq's weapons of mass terror could fall into the hands of terrorists."
And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.
He attributed this not to pre-existing high public debts, but to the fact that the ECB could not act as a backstop for government funding and spare fiscal authorities the loss of market confidence.
Likewise, capacity utilization in manufacturing is roughly at the same level as in the previous two peaks (2007-2008 and 2013), meaning that there is almost no spare capacity to be put to use.
But OPEC ran out of spare capacity between 2005 and early 2008 and was not able to increase production as demand increased.
Scientists generally agree that research should be done within that period – and always allowed on spare embryos that will never be implanted.
There were significant profit opportunities for financial intermediaries that could find spare risk-bearing capacity, carve out securities to take advantage of it, and thus take a middleman’s cut from matching risks with investors who could gain from bearing them.
Unresolved, the crisis will spare no one.
James Memusi, an accountant, grows mushrooms in a spare bedroom, selling them to nearby hotels and supermarkets.
Washington can also press the Saudis, who control virtually all of the world’s spare capacity, to keep their output high to contain prices.
Hatoyama’s attacks did not spare the defense and foreign-policy mandarins who managed the US-Japan alliance, because they, too, were regarded as part and parcel of the LDP/bureaucratic power structure that was strangling Japan’s economy.
I spent many of my spare hours over the last month adjusting to a new e-mail program after abandoning Eudora and my PC for a Mac with AppleMail.
As a result, total imports per capita stand at 15% of their 2012 level, resulting in shortages not only of food and medicine, but also of the spare parts needed to get the country’s trucks and machines running again.
In a normal competitive market, prices will be set by the cost of producing an extra barrel from the cheapest oilfields with spare capacity.
A substantial fraction of Germany’s government – and, if polls are to be believed, the German people – actually believe that creating an official state Muslim holiday will somehow spare us from the wrath of fanatical Islamists.
The only way to meet growing demand was to use OPEC’s spare capacity and commercial inventories.
Once spare capacity vanished and commercial inventories declined to critical levels relative to estimated future demand, oil prices started to break record after record.
Economic recovery, a further decline in the dollar, low interest rates, weaker investment in 2009, and various political factors are among the most frequently cited bullish factors, whereas weak and sluggish economic recovery, spare production capacity, and high inventories are among the most cited bearish factors.
Today, instead of cloning people from spare parts – or spare cells, as is the case with reproductive cloning – scientists hope to grow those parts by cloning people.
And as individual countries bring the coronavirus under control within their own borders, they could dispatch spare resources to countries that need more experienced medical personnel, respirators, testing kits, masks, and the like.
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