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Disparaged by mainstream economists as technically inadequate, Limits to Growth was effectively buried in the following decades, as the pro-market policies spearheaded by US President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took root and
spread.
The net interest margin – the
spread
between what banks pay for deposits and what they charge for loans – has thus narrowed by 0.15 percentage points, to 2.85%.
If those creditor losses are large and
spread
so as to undermine the broader financial system, pressure for a government bailout will mount.
When
spread
over four years, an additional €2 billion spent on defense, €600 million on universities, and €4 billion on housing will make little difference.
They
spread
a number of diseases – such as chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, West Nile fever, and Zika virus – which together kill millions of people each year.
Through their ability to
spread
risk across broad portfolios, insurers have enabled high-risk activities for centuries.
In democracies like the United States, the concern is that tech companies will continue to exacerbate political and social polarization by facilitating the
spread
of disinformation and creating ideological “filter bubbles,” leading to something resembling Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
In a speculative bubble, the contagion is amplified by people’s reaction to price movements, but social epidemics do not need markets or prices to get public attention and
spread
quickly.
Interestingly, the value of these companies may well have risen once the rumor
spread
that powerful officials had become associated with them.
Not only are water shortages likely to intensify and spread, but consumers also will increasingly have to pay more for their water supply.
NEW YORK – As I try to grasp the full meaning of the Tunisian Revolution and gauge its future, I am looking at my desk, where I have
spread
two issues of TheNew York Times, both featuring Tunisia on their front pages.
Terrorism may
spread
to Germany, and refugees may move across borders.
The start of this turnaround could be associated with the other two trends, as the cumulative result of more favorable policies and increased labor per hectare, but it could also reflect the gradual
spread
of improved crop varieties that resulted from earlier investment in agricultural technology.
If they are serious about preventing the
spread
of these monstrous weapons – and averting their use – they will work energetically and expeditiously to eliminate them completely.
Iran’s Iraq CalculationsWASHINGTON, DC – With the
spread
of ethnic and sectarian violence in Iraq – brought to new levels of terror by the rise of the Islamic State (IS) – Iran’s image as an island of stability in a conflict-ridden Middle East may be short-lived.
In the contemporary American workplace, employers use their court-protected free-speech rights to
spread
millions of dollars worth of anti-union propaganda, to intimidate individual workers, and to persuade employees that joining a union would mean losing their jobs.
Both Singh and the US State Department helped
spread
the canard that foreign influence was at work behind the scenes.
Today, popular rebellion and political change have
spread
throughout the region.
What made this collapse so remarkable is that it was not caused by some external factor, but originated within the financial system itself and
spread
from there throughout the global economy.
The
spread
of inflation-indexed bonds serves as a historical precedent.
Some challenges, such as the misuse of social media to
spread
disinformation – using, among others, cutting-edge tools like deepfake videos and artificial intelligence – are already clear.
For starters, because genomes multiply and
spread
with reproduction, modifying an entire population would require modifications to only a limited number of individuals, especially if the organism’s lifecycle is short.
Moreover, given the ubiquity of hybridization among neighboring species, it is possible that the modification of a mosquito species would also
spread
progressively and uncontrollably to other species.
Financial HypocrisyThis year marks the tenth anniversary of the East Asia crisis, which began in Thailand on July 2, 1997, and
spread
to Indonesia in October and to Korea in December.
But lack of transparency played a central role in this past summer’s credit crunch; toxic mortgages were sliced and diced,
spread
around the world, packaged with better products, and hidden away as collateral, so no one could be sure who was holding what.
Preventing Ebola’s
spread
involves painstaking tracking and quarantining of high-risk individuals.
As the ice-bucket craze
spread
across Facebook and Twitter, Ebola began ravaging swaths of West Africa village by village.
Moreover, contemporary problems – for example, thwarting the
spread
of materials and weapons of mass destruction, maintaining an open world economy, slowing climate change, and combating terrorism – cannot be managed, much less solved, by any single country.
Since the turn of the century, many of the advances against HIV were enabled by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a 15-year policy roadmap that made reducing the
spread
of the virus a top priority.
The institute’s researchers carry out innovative and complex science, from classic clinical trials and epidemiological studies to behavioral-modification trials aimed at reducing the
spread
of infectious disease – with remarkable results.
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