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Turkey’s immediate neighborhood occupied the top spot on the global policy agenda in 2012, and will continue to so in 2013.
Efforts to eradicate leprosy earned the fifth spot on my list, while vaccine advances in general were sixth.
He lives a few streets away from the spot where the protesters gather.
He also knows how to spot and nurture talent, and how to bring the best out of the people around him.
Emerging-market growth is the world’s bright spot and looks to be sustainable even as the advanced countries experience an extended period of rebalancing and slow growth.
When we do this for the pound against the dollar and the euro, the pound’s notional exchange rate is still substantially weaker than its actual spot rate, which suggests that the market has indeed factored in a considerable risk premium.
Within days, Stanculescu was among those masterminding the show-trial of the Ceausescus which ended with their being sentenced to death and executed on the spot.
With US workers remaining under intense pressure in terms of both job security and real wages, politicians have understandably been put on the spot.
Inequality, exclusion, and duality became more marked in countries where skills were poorly distributed and many services approximated the textbook “ideal” of spot markets.
SINGAPORE – Asia is poised to enter a historical sweet spot, with three of its most populous countries – China, India, and Indonesia – led by strong, dynamic, and reform-minded leaders.
Two other developments promise to prevent increased European dependence on Russia: massive expansion of liquefied gas imports into the EU and – linked to this and to deregulation of the European gas market – the transition from long-term supply agreements and the oil-price peg to market-dependent spot prices.
A good example of a company that suffered from this kind of blind spot is Nestlé.
If we do not develop the ways and means to spot and navigate around possible new risks, the outlook for this exciting new technology will be uncertain.
Amid these challenges for NATO, the one bright spot on the Chicago agenda might be the ongoing developments in the Arab world.
“Enrich yourselves” is the clarion call of our era; and in that moral blind spot lies a great danger.
Economic growth replaced military might as Russia’s most important indicator of success and earned it a spot in the so-called BRICS grouping of the world’s major emerging economies, alongside Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
Europe’s Refugee Problem, Then and NowNEW YORK – Earlier this spring, I drove to a beautiful spot on the southern bank of Lake Geneva.
Military intervention won’t be the answer in every hot spot; nor should it be the developed world’s only response.
Whereas the new, cheap German wind-energy producers cost $80 per MWh ($0.08 per kWh), the average German spot price in 2014 was just $33 per MWh.
The questions asked of politicians by journalists are often so aggressive or implicitly insulting that one wonders why their recipients don’t walk out of interviews in a huff, or wither on the spot from humiliation.
Voters normally spot political Pinocchios and the lengthening of politicians’ noses a mile off.
That information can go directly onto public-health dashboards, which health managers can use to spot disease outbreaks, failures in supply chains, or the need to bolster technical staff.
We decided on the spot to carry out a careful questionnaire survey comparing attitudes toward free markets.
Learning how to spot such bubbles and deal with them before they infect entire economies will be a major challenge for the next generation of finance scholars.
And even this tame non-Chernobyl comparison overstates the real dose, because it is analogous to a large contamination zone rather than a localized “hot spot.”
Pricing would be more transparent, and consumers could spot anomalies (from their phones) and shop for the best deals.
Doctors often spot trends and develop hypotheses that involve guesswork, and that are validated by trials only later.
After all, one can spot potential bubbles all over the place.
The consequences are easy to spot in a country like Mexico, where cartel crime goes unreported in huge swaths of the country.
The protest movement that gathered in Tiananmen that year posed an existential threat to the Communist Party state, proclaimed in that very spot 40 years earlier by Mao Zedong.
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