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Just as financial contagion can spread market uncertainties through neighboring economies, so, too, can political contagion spread the adoption of a zero-sum mentality.
Yet a small but vocal group of alarmists and self-serving profiteers continues to spread fear-mongering distortions and outright lies claiming that vaccines do more harm than good.
The oceans’ heat content is measured by a network of more than 3,000 free-drifting robotic floats spread out across the world’s waters, where they routinely dive 2,000 meters beneath the surface.
Will the European Union’s sovereign-debt woes spread to neighbors such as Turkey?
The international debt crisis that erupted in mid-1982 began in Mexico, and then spread to the rest of Latin America and beyond.
The spread of infectious disease, global trade and finance, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, counterterrorism, and cyber security are just some of the issues that require broad international cooperation and global governance.
A few weeks ago, Burma’s monks began to march and pray and spread loving kindness in an effort to solve our nation’s problems peacefully.
Moreover, the spread of democratic institutions in non-European contexts during the last decades of the 20 th century suggests that we in the West are not alone in this belief.
Despite the spread of formal democracy on the continent, the nature of domestic politics in most African countries has hardly changed.
Another promising innovator is Western Governors University, a private nonprofit online institution founded by 19 state governors that serves about 58,000 students spread across the US.
Governments Must Stand Up for HealthGENEVA – It was just a century ago that the Spanish flu epidemic spread across the world and killed tens of millions of people.
That task will no longer be to spread -- violently or non-violently -- European religion or civilization, Europe’s inventions or its power.
The question for Europe now is whether the marriage of messianic and opportunistic populism will go mainstream and spread across the Union, or remain confined to Central Europe.
This has not gone unnoticed, as a wave of anti-China movements has spread across Africa.
The plague is spread principally by the bite of fleas, and a few thousand years ago, the bacterium acquired a genetic mutation that made it ferociously effective at spreading.
Unemployment, and fear that it will spread, drives down wages, incomes, and consumption – and thus total demand.
And the crisis itself almost surely will spread.
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, about a million tons of sulfur dioxide was pumped into the stratosphere, reacting with water to form a hazy layer that spread around the globe, and – by scattering and absorbing incoming sunlight – cooled the earth’s surface for almost two years.
Given these factors – urban density, congested slums and shantytowns with poor sanitation, drainage, and sewage, and weak health-care infrastructure – it is easy to imagine how the Ebola virus could spread rapidly.
Lagos, where the Nigerian authorities have done a remarkable job of preventing the spread of the virus, closely resembles India’s megapolises.
Nevertheless, it will be difficult for legitimate hedge-fund managers to remove the taint that rogue traders have now spread over their industry.
The problem is that they commonly misuse antibiotics either to compensate for poor agricultural practices – such as overcrowding on factory farms, which encourages the spread of disease – or to accelerate growth and reduce production costs.
Individual member states’ capacity to protect their banks came into question, and the interest-rate spread between different governments’ bonds began to widen alarmingly.
The traditions of Korean art, crafts, and cuisine have already spread around the world.
In 1936, the Nobel laureate Max Planck observed that scientific innovations rarely spread as a result of their opponents’ conversion; instead, opponents of innovation “gradually die out,” and the next generation accepts the breakthrough.
What will narrow it still more, and so sustain the gains in global growth, will be the spread of infrastructure know-how at the local level in emerging markets.
In a world where capital is free to flow across international boundaries, the crisis in the US has spread to Europe.
The crisis spread because the banking system was not sufficiently risk-averse – and in some cases even seemed to relish risk.
But, as industrialization and technological progress spread to Asia (and now to Africa), someday the struggle for subsistence will no longer be a primary imperative, and contemporary capitalism’s numerous flaws may loom larger.
When contemplating foreign military intervention, leaders must explain their actions in ways that make clear how their country’s strategic and moral interests are at stake – for example, how unbridled aggression and hideous suffering can fester and spread.
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