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Fourth, the combination of a dollar squeeze and protectionism spells big trouble for developing countries, with the possible exception of some relatively closed economies such as Brazil, Russia, and India, whose development strategies are less reliant on free trade and foreign financing.
Though alarming in the short term, the eradication of small producers spells good news for those that survived the crisis.
Furthermore, many of those who have recently entered the labor market have suffered from job insecurity and repeated spells of unemployment.
Far from a recipe for greatness, the Trump fiscal gambit spells serious trouble.
Second, there is Article 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1967, which spells out a process by which the vice president and cabinet can act to replace a president who has died or is prevented by reasons of health from governing.
“It was left to other parties with less worthy overall agendas – Hitler, for example – to step in and say that if the rules of the game led to prolonged spells of mass unemployment, then the rules of the game had to be changed.”
We have written a memo that spells out some of the essential elements of what a grand bargain for peace in Sudan could look like.
That agreement not only contains benchmarks that should lead to self-determination for Sudan’s South; it also spells out a democratization process in Sudan itself.
We will need a true global business plan that spells out how the new technologies are developed, tested, and adopted on an expedited basis worldwide.
All of this spells lasting damage to the credibility of Washington’s commitment to the “full faith and credit” of the US government.
Yet another vacuous budget deal, in conjunction with weaker-than-expected growth for the US economy for years to come, spells a protracted period of outsize government deficits.
One finds plenty of cases of rising inequality during spells of growth.
A stop-gap measure that permits firms to hire workers for temporary assignments, on condition that they not be renewed, condemns the least skilled to a demoralizing cycle of short-term jobs and repeated spells of unemployment.
That spells subdued growth in US consumption for years to come – with a predictably massive impact on global consumption.
Further compression of an already-weak domestic saving position spells growing current-account and trade deficits – a fundamental axiom of macroeconomics that the US never seems to appreciate.
Russia and Canada may be happy to receive them as vast new tracts of land open up, but many other parts of the world are already crowded, which spells conflict.
As the actual number of truly heinous crimes has in fact fallen, increasingly it is small-time hoodlums, drug users, and mentally ill people who have been drawing long spells behind bars.
It even spells its originator’s name.
Through participant interviews, personal observation, time diaries, and longitudinal studies, Bakke showed how extended spells of unemployment caused workers’ skills to deteriorate and made it difficult for them to acquire new ones.
There’s another side of the story that’s inconvenient to mention: rising temperatures will reduce the number of cold spells, which are a much bigger killer than heat.
After all, without devaluation and the prospect of debt relief, reform merely spells more short-term pain, not less.
The emerging coalition’s 167-page agreement, which spells out in striking detail the future government’s agenda, indicates that the authorities’ focus during the next four years will, once again, be confined to enacting previously agreed policies, not on promoting deliberation and reflection on public issues.
The first result of the West’s standoff with Russia is that it spells the end of the BRICS.
On the economic front, that spells the possibility of reciprocal tariffs on US exports to China, as well as potential ramifications for Chinese purchases of Treasuries.
If they were, there would be no need for domestic bankruptcy law, which spells out issues like precedence and fair treatment.
So it might be a good idea for the EU to prepare a mechanism that spells out how debt can be trimmed.
And even if famine is averted, spells of poor nutrition can have lasting consequences, including higher vulnerability to other illnesses.
Ned Land still kept up the most tenacious skepticism; beyond his spells on watch, he pretended that he never even looked at the surface of the waves, at least while no whales were in sight.
But she was no longer the simple, timid woman of the previous year; her fatal passion, her spells of remorse had enlightened her.
'He is my secretary,' the Marquis added to his neighbour, 'and he spells _cela_ with a double _l_.'Everyone looked at Julien, who gave Norbert a slightly exaggerated bow; but on the whole, they were satisfied with his appearance.
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