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If the US extended financial and trade sanctions to multilateral lending, and suspended supplies of military spare parts, it would gain another effective means of bringing Pakistan to heel.
The gap between actual and potential GDP is thus a gauge of an economy’s spare capacity.
In plain English: the forecasters underestimated the extent of spare capacity and hence the scope for fiscal expansion to raise output.
The EFSM has extended some €46.8 billion in loans to Portugal and Ireland but has substantial spare capacity.
Today, with Iran starved of technology and spare parts for existing equipment, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer in 2006 has become a net importer of refined petroleum products.
As with AIDS, a few dollars per person of assistance for agriculture each year could spare millions from hunger.
What is so equitable about substantially reducing the income of very poor people in the Third World today in order to spare the people alive in the year 2,100 a reduction of about 1% to 2% of a much higher GNP?
In our much more democratic and interconnected world, it is possible that a clear international norm limiting time in power could spare the world from dictatorship and destabilization in the future.
Although he had managed to obtain medication from a local pharmacy for the agonizing pain – probably because his leg was broken – he could spare neither the time nor the money to see a surgeon.
Mental Health for AllMELBOURNE – One spring evening in 1997, when I was a mental-health researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, I was discussing with my wife, Betty Kitchener, a registered nurse who taught first-aid courses for the Red Cross in her spare time, the inadequacy of conventional first-aid training.
So we would all spare ourselves an awful lot of trouble if McCain’s brainchild were buried as quickly as possible.
British voters have an opportunity to spare themselves a great deal of economic turmoil, while allowing Germans – and many others across Europe – to breathe a sigh of relief.
Of course, not all residents of rich countries have income to spare after meeting their basic needs.
We could, therefore, advocate that everyone with income to spare, after meeting their family's basic needs, should contribute a minimum of 0.4% of their income to organizations working to help the world's poorest people, and that would probably be enough to meet the Millennium goals.
They are prepared to spare governments from too much criticism, if they think they are trying to do what is right for everyone.
The Chechens hope that adopting a constitution, followed by the election of a Chechen president, will spare them the horrors of purge and arrests that would invariably have followed had either side secured a military victory.
The Korean government will spare no effort to expand these exchanges, especially among the young people who will lead Korea-ASEAN relations in the future.
His forecast was correct, of course, with a month to spare.
That makes it relevant to ask: what could someone with a spare $450 million do for the poor?
American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national-security concerns.
But if the governments have shown they will spare no expense to backstop the financial system, who is to backstop governments, particularly with so many running out-sized deficits at the same time.
Moreover, excise taxes are a convenient source of revenue in developing countries, as they are primarily levied on products such as alcohol, tobacco, gas, vehicles, and spare parts, which involve few producers, large sales volumes, relatively inelastic demand, and easy observability.
Regulators see how well financial firms are doing, become convinced that they themselves are regulating effectively, that the regulated can at last run their banks well, and that policy tools can save the financial system and spare the real economy if a crisis unexpectedly occurs.
That’s understandable, because even in good times, poor countries have little to spare.
As a bit player in the dramatic events that Sorkin describes (I am an independent director of Morgan Stanley in my spare time), I can confirm that he accurately captures the atmosphere of chaos and uncertainty that reigned in New York in the autumn of 2008.
Indeed, the partial withdrawal of the US implies that the end of the enforced stability of the old Middle East will not spare the Sykes-Picot borders.
Outside the world of manufacturing, where mass-produced goods may still have a substantial cost advantage over custom-printed ones, 3D printing will have far greater impact downstream, in the market for spare parts and replacements, where demand is less predictable but more precise.
Then, when he loses the key or needs a spare, he can get a new copy at any location with a kiosk – of which there will soon be many, the company hopes.
Today, for example, many businesses are devoted to managing and storing spare parts.
Each location needs to carry thousands of different spare parts because it is not clear which ones will be needed where.
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