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But the
stark
reality of today’s world is that you can tell the rich from the poor by their Internet connections.
But their growing fortunes stand in
stark
contrast to decades of slow wage growth, which is creating a political backlash.
Likewise, the killing of 13 Chinese boat crewmen on the Mekong River in October serves as a
stark
reminder that China’s presumably peaceful southern land border, which has been untroubled for nearly 20 years, today resembles the most hostile sort of neighborhood.
Similarly inconvenient facts apply to Italy’s massive public debt, which was accumulated through excessive public spending financed by domestic savers (in
stark
contrast to Greece).
The lingering empathy for France and Germany born of the Cold War alliance stands in
stark
contrast to the American foreign policy community's wariness toward post-Soviet Russia.
As a result, developing countries face a
stark
choice: take advantage of new technologies to stimulate economic growth and enhance productivity or fall even further behind as businesses and consumers in rich countries increasingly embrace digital advances.
Trump reinforced this view with his
stark
inaugural address, in which he asserted a “right of all nations to put their own interests first.”
This view stands in
stark
contrast to the traditional view that there is a tradeoff between equality and growth, and that greater inequality is a price that must be paid for higher output.
The country’s Gini coefficient is one of the worst in the world, reflecting
stark
levels of income inequality; its rate of unemployment, at 26.5%, is alarmingly high and hits young people the hardest; and too many people are stuck in disastrous poverty cycles.
In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, for example, Harper was the only G-7 leader to visit Kyiv, where he drew
stark
– if questionable – historical parallels between Russia’s actions and Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Outside Europe, the GM green revolution holds more
stark
implications.
The political differences are too
stark.
It is hard to imagine that China’s government, which obsesses over every minute issue of diplomatic protocol, had not orchestrated this
stark
image of America’s decline relative to the country to which it owes $1.4 trillion.
Indeed, rating-agency downgrades, a widening of sovereign spreads, and failed public-debt auctions in countries like the United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, and Spain provided a
stark
reminder last year that unless advanced economies begin to put their fiscal houses in order, investors, bond-market vigilantes, and rating agencies may turn from friend to foe.
The distinction between the two types of suicide bombers is not always
stark.
As a group of eminent European politicians recently noted, a two-state peace deal could be lost, leaving Israel to face a
stark
choice: become a non-Jewish democracy or a Jewish non-democracy.
The Western Roots of Anti-Western TerrorBERLIN – The Islamic State’s horrific attacks in Paris provide a
stark
reminder that Western powers cannot contain – let alone insulate themselves from – the unintended consequences of their interventions in the Middle East.
The predicament can be expressed in
stark
terms: Who Will Pay the Price of Enlargement?
Yet tentative openings by both Tehran and Washington do not appear ill-fated, in
stark
contrast to the secret and farcical arms-for-hostages swap that took place under President Reagan in 1986.
North Korea stands in
stark
contrast to Cuba’s successful policy of engagement.
Equally striking is the modesty of the victors, in
stark
contrast to the usual triumphalism.
No Time to Lose in SyriaMADRID – The arrival of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children seeking refuge from conflict has confronted the European Union with two
stark
realities.
The gap between what IT promised and what it delivered in the early days was so
stark
that experts called it the “IT productivity paradox.”
In
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contrast to the “real world,” the two leading powers, the United States and China, played no role in the tournament.
The harsh reality – thrown into
stark
relief by the Japanese disaster – is that we do not yet have the luxury of dumping coal, gas, and nuclear power.
This is in
stark
contrast to the Italian political tradition.
His death brings closer the end of the Gorbachev generation of reform communists, those who – like Shevardnadze and the late Boris Yeltsin – presented a
stark
contrast in the late 1980s to the dour Brezhnev-era hard-liners, spurring (mostly inadvertently) the collapse of the Soviet empire and the long transition to democracy.
The choice is
stark.
The electoral math is
stark.
America is, in short, a country with a past history and current
stark
reality of racism, ethnic chauvinism, and resort to mass violence.
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