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As the financial crisis deepened and
spread
from late 2007, speculators began investing in commodities, and the dollar’s decline relative to other currencies has also induced such investments.
What started with subprime mortgages
spread
to all collateralized debt obligations, endangered municipal and mortgage insurance and reinsurance companies and threatened to unravel the multi-trillion-dollar credit default swap market.
But to create an international order based on law and not force – economic force having replaced military might – it is necessary to strengthen and
spread
multilateralism into political fields as well in economic ones.
That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could
spread.
The fire
spread
so fast that by the time Arab leaders understood what it would consume, it was beyond anyone’s control, and in more than one country.
What made the
spread
of derivatives possible was the ease with which the volume of debt for a given set of real assets could be expanded.
It led directly to the
spread
of financial risk-management models, which, by excluding the possibility of default, grossly underestimated the amount of risk in the system.
Hostile powers have turned our open Internet into a cesspool of disinformation, much of which is
spread
by automated bots that the major platforms could purge without undermining open debate – that is, if they had the will to do so.
Three Cheers for RegulationCAMBRIDGE – One of the striking changes any rich-world traveler to low-income countries cannot fail to have missed during the past decade or so is the rapid
spread
of mobile phone use, followed now by expanding mobile Internet access.
Mobile communications are playing the same role in social and economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that the
spread
of fixed-line communications did in countries like France and the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
If we cannot survive as hunter-gatherers in Africa, the continent where our species evolved, how did humans achieve such immense success relative to other animals and
spread
to nearly all of the earth’s major ecosystems?
This time around, investment must be
spread
across all sectors, boosting their competitiveness and, in turn, their contribution to GDP growth.
Third, a widening generation gap has
spread
to the ruling elites.
With the passing of time and the transformation of Israel from a small pioneer state to a regional superpower, Israel’s image became blurred and progressively negative, while sympathy for the Palestinian cause spread, despite Palestinian terrorism.
Primitive approaches to managing sewage continue to
spread
infections such as schistosomiasis, trachoma, viral hepatitis, and cholera.
This cost would be
spread
over several years.
The fallout from Brexit probably won’t
spread
as quickly as in outright financial crises, such as the 2008 financial meltdown or the 1997 and 1998 Asian episodes.
Commodity prices
spread
worldwide, though influenced by local conditions and constraints (including tariffs and other protectionist measures in China, Russia, America, and elsewhere).
Just as we are driven to
spread
our physical DNA, so apparently do we have an urge to
spread
our virtual identities, so that we cannot be erased.
As Waltz observed, nuclear arms have a tendency to
spread.
Whereas pandemics appear suddenly,
spread
rapidly, and raise enormous fears of an impending threat, TB has been spreading slowly but consistently for tens of thousands of years, patiently waiting for new opportunities.
Among this generation’s most daunting challenges are food, water, and energy shortages; climate change and rising sea levels; and the
spread
of new, drug-resistant diseases.
Worse, they inspire little confidence that the US can deal with future cases in which countries with nuclear assets find themselves in revolt, civil war, or political collapse – and with compromised domestic atomic safeguards risking the
spread
of nuclear havoc to other regions.
At the same time that political changes helped
spread
democracy across Latin America, structural economic reforms were strengthened.
It is believed that the epidemic first took hold in the forested regions of Guinea in December 2013, then gradually
spread
into Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Nonetheless, the disease
spread
into urban areas and, like a wildfire, engulfed the three countries and spilled into others.
This means changing the conditions that allowed it to
spread
so rapidly in the first place.
Wilson, by contrast, wanted to
spread
democracy for the sake of world peace, but in an indirect manner, working through the League of Nations.
Stemming the
spread
of this deadly trio of diseases is the linchpin in the global fight against poverty.
We now risk failing to meet the Millennium Development GOAL, set out by the United Nations, of reversing the
spread
of AIDS, TB and malaria by 2015.
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