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On that spot, that Golgotha of modern times, he called the Poles, who remembered dear ones gassed to death in Auschwitz's crematoria as well as those frozen into glass in Siberia's concentration camps, to a brotherhood devoted to struggle against even justified hatred and revenge.
Yet there is a third reality, which provides cause for optimism: the challenges that we face are interrelated, so, if we are smart about it, if we spot and utilize the inter-connections among these problems, solutions to each problem can be solutions to all.
Conventional wisdom among economists and investors has a long record of failing to spot major turning points; so the near-universal belief today that Greece faces permanent depression is no reason to despair.
Many Hindus claim that the Babri Masjid stood on the precise spot of Ram’s birth and had been placed there by Babur to remind a conquered people of their subjugation.
The next trouble spot is Italy, which is facing a banking crisis and a referendum in October.
Troubled by the president’s apparent soft spot for (or perhaps fear of) Vladimir Putin, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers passed a bill to impose more sanctions on Russia and – most unusually – to prevent the president from lifting any such penalties.
Turkey is currently on the spot, but the larger lesson applies far beyond Syria and, indeed, the Middle East.
Perhaps we should not be surprised that Trump has now taken a sledgehammer to it: systemic awareness has proved to be a major blind spot for the “Artist of the Deal,” whose worldview can be summed up in three words: quid pro quo.
Moreover, Denmark took the top spot in the United Nations’ World Happiness report last year, suggesting that wealth inequality does not trouble Danes too much.
While each emerging-market trouble spot – Venezuela, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina – has idiosyncratic features, a pattern is starting to emerge.
The second US blind spot is the politicization of this terrible affront.
The third blind spot is almost too painful to bear having to address – which, on a charitable interpretation, might explain why not one mainstream US media report has done so: the burnings were not carried out on some street in Kabul, but at Bagram.
If more physicians had routine access to these kits, they could tell on the spot whether a patient had influenza and eliminate the need to treat him or her as a possible SARS patient.
The study, she says, “gives everyone a chance to switch services on the spot.”
By making it harder for individuals to hide behind shell companies, such regulation would make illicit financial flows significantly more difficult to accomplish – and much easier to spot.
This resulted in a significant reduction in the interest-rate differential with other countries, which, together with a more active intervention policy in the spot and future markets, brought the exchange rate to a much more competitive level, despite the global currency war.
As labor costs continue to climb, is China set to lose its coveted spot as the world’s workshop?
Indeed, nationalist politicians and religious leaders have been the first to spot the vacuum, and they are rapidly filling it.
The Middle East’s Arc of ProsperityPRINCETON – As Egypt trembles on the brink of civil war, with alarming levels of violence and hardening divisions on all sides, it is hard to find a truly bright spot anywhere in the Middle East or North Africa.
The garrulous minister called the intrusion just “one little spot” of acne on the otherwise “beautiful face” of the bilateral relationship – a mere blemish that could be treated with “an ointment.”
Housing bubbles are not difficult to spot; on the contrary, they typically make headlines long before they pop.
The IMF’s blind spot in dealing with Europe until now is only partly due to European voting power.
So far, the Fed’s policies under its new chairman, Jerome Powell, have been spot on; but that hasn’t stopped Trump from publicly complaining that interest rates are rising too rapidly.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
An assessment of sovereign risk that is systematic and data-driven could help to spot the risks that changing global headwinds imply.
Whales cannot be humanely killed – they are too large, and even with an explosive harpoon, it is difficult to hit the whale in the right spot.
Make no mistake: China’s territorial creep is contributing to Asian insecurity, fueling political tension, and turning the world’s economically most vibrant continent into a potentially global hot spot.
As you survey the rest of global culture, the male-escape scenario is hard to spot emerging from any other place.
In my experiences, Africans simply have a moral blind spot on the subject of homosexuality.
He later lent himself to a spot in a tv commercial, promoting vegetarianism, in which his line was that though he only ate fruit and vegetables what he really liked was "eating politicians for breakfast".
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