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Spain had succeeded in limiting the
spread
between its interest rates and those of Germany to about two percentage points.
Some call Khan's network an effort to
spread
an "Islamic bomb," but given that North Korea was on the list of recipients along with Libya and Iran, it might better be termed a corrupt bomb.
As events in Pakistan illustrate, the
spread
of nuclear technology does not extend the stability that comes with mutual deterrence.
Indeed, with increased contact between Taiwan and the mainland, ordinary Chinese could begin to envy the modern democracy that the Taiwanese people have built – and
spread
the idea of an open society to the Chinese mainland.
And how can hundreds of isolated settlements
spread
amidst a hostile Palestinian population ever be considered a strategic asset?
In our globalized world, political instability and upheaval can
spread
quickly across national borders.
We must update – not abandon – the rules of global trade and investment to
spread
their benefits more widely.
The promises of the United Nations Millennium Summit, signed by all the world’s leaders, included halving extreme poverty, halting the
spread
of HIV/AIDS, and providing primary education for all children by 2015.
The
spread
of irrigated farming and water-intensive industries, together with the demands of a rising middle class, have led to a severe struggle for more water.
Within five decades, the moth had
spread
throughout North America.
The initial reaction by international observers and investors has been one of deep concern, with the interest-rate
spread
on Italian debt relative to German debt widening sharply.
Changing weather patterns are already affecting the lives of millions of Africans by reducing food security, facilitating the
spread
of diseases like malaria, and prompting mass migration.
According to former Obama administration Chief Economist Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, even permanent transfer-payment increases provide stimulus for only a few months, and the effect does not
spread
to employment.
Beyond that point, the goals of state action – the substance of ministers’ responsibilities – will still be assessed according to values whose richness and complexity cannot be reduced to the cold one-dimensionality of a
spread
sheet.
They should publicly laud the President's statesmanship for having given the world the most effective instrument against the
spread
of weapons of mass-destruction, as well as for curbing Iraqi influence in the Middle East and weakening Saddam's regime.
If anything, they will
spread
and grow louder.
Syria, which at first seemed to be just another instance of internal change, has spawned a civil war that has
spread
beyond the country’s borders, affecting all of its neighbors.
The crisis has indeed
spread
to all of Syria’s neighbors – including, most recently, Turkey, which has witnessed the export of suicide bombings to what had been the peaceful city of Reyhanli.
They commissioned the first epidemiological surveys to identify the source of cholera outbreaks – which could wipe out half the population of a neighborhood in a matter of weeks – and built new waterworks to stop the
spread
of the disease from the filthy Thames and tainted local pumps.
They built the first major public hospitals at a time when home births and other home care
spread
contagion and death.
The
spread
of English among the cosmopolitan “Easyjet generation,” he writes, will lead to a “parallel society” in which “cultural differences” have been negated, and German national culture has been destroyed.
The debate is about whether these innovations will remain bottled up in a few tech-intensive sectors that employ the highest-skilled professionals and account for a relatively small share of GDP, or
spread
to the bulk of the economy.
The latter approach held that efforts to roll back Communism in the short run were too risky, given the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and that the United States and the West should content themselves with limiting the
spread
of Soviet power and influence.
Media-fed fears that the disease could
spread
to affluent countries led to extraordinary precautions.
Yet investments in new resource-saving technologies are not being made at a sufficient scale, because market signals don’t give the right incentives, and because governments are not yet cooperating adequately to develop and
spread
their use.
Back in 2006, through research funded by the World Health Organization’s Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), I found virtually no sandfly-control initiatives in place in districts where VL –
spread
by a single species of sandfly – was endemic.
Many perceived NATO as a kind of Warsaw Pact twin, established so that the democracies could jointly protect themselves against the
spread
of communist power, a twin that would lose it’s raison d’etre once the adversary disappeared.
She sat on a traditional stool and
spread
her legs wide apart.
Prodi’s left-wing l’Unione coalition comprises a hodge-podge of parties
spread
all over the political spectrum, ranging from staunch communists to former liberals (with communists stronger than in the previous election).
Instead, negotiators must aim to
spread
the benefits of trade more widely, by taking better advantage of the opportunities for cooperation stemming from geographical proximity, complementary labor markets, demographic dynamics, and economic integration.
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