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Their steady value makes them appear safer to investors than they are to the world’s financial system.
Its lobbyists told the SEC commissioners that current rules already did everything possible to ensure safety; that retail investors want money-market funds’ steady value; that change would hurt all investors; and that the recent Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation disrupts regulators’ ability to bail out money-market funds next time.
They show that after a steady increase from 2004 to 2007, firm creation dropped sharply.
But can Brazil move beyond these stop-and-go cycles and ensure steady growth?
Nonetheless, informal markets in developing countries provide a vast field for experimentation to transform a patchwork of jobs into a steady upward path for workers.
And the steady accumulation of incontrovertible evidence that global warming is real may slowly align the balance of US political opinion, and perhaps even Trump’s opinion, with the clear majority of Americans who believe that climate change is a major problem.
Instead of bashing Latin America, the US needs to show it can be a steady and principled friend that will not be swayed by corrupt bribes of any type.
In much of the rest of the region, the required fiscal adjustment is more modest and can be achieved through steady increases in tax revenues.
A steady stream of economic data suggests that the annual rate has now accelerated to 2.5%, roughly splitting the difference between Trump and the experts.
Suicide is not a crime in Canada, so, as Taylor put it: “I simply cannot understand why the law holds that the able-bodied who are terminally ill are allowed to shoot themselves when they have had enough because they are able to hold a gun steady, but because my illness affects my ability to move and control my body, I cannot be allowed compassionate help to allow me to commit an equivalent act using lethal medication.”
A significant reason is believed to be the steady flight of intellectuals from Iraq, which seems obvious, but is difficult to measure.
This translated into series of positive initiatives towards the aspiring newcomers: the PHARE programme, the EBRD, the association agreements leading to a slow but steady strengthening of the EU's ties with candidate countries.
And, from the bureaucrat's point of view, his or her salary might be pathetic, but it comes with a steady stream of facilitation payments.
So, over the last three years, we have been working through a steady deficit-reduction plan.
This pattern of steady erosion has now ended, with senior military and other officials joining the opposition in increasing numbers.
Economic growth became dependent on a steady flow of foreign capital to finance domestic consumption and flashy investments in housing, roads, bridges, and airports.
Climate-change policies must be steady and consistent.
And this steady transformation will have far-reaching implications for our democratic institutions and political structures.
It also turns out that the poor worker lives in a household where only 0.5 people on average have a job, so that two families are needed for one steady source of income.
Indeed, studies in the US, Australia, and elsewhere show that drug treatment rates tend to remain steady or rise, because syringe exchange participants gain greater access to rehabilitative care.
On the contrary, people are justifiably shocked at the steady stream of stories calling into question whether the companies that provide so many essential services in countries around the world deserve their confidence.
It is hard to believe that any increase in aggregate demand will boost the housing market – which, remember, was buoyed by visions of steady price appreciation that few seem likely to hold today – sufficiently to re-employ all these workers.
Among Republicans this sentiment is, of course, no surprise, given their party’s steady rightward drift and consistent antipathy toward President Barack Obama.
The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises’ profit margins of – small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.
As the advanced economies recover, however weakly, the growth differential is likely to narrow again, perhaps to about two percentage points, which still implies steady convergence at a decent pace.
US policy in Asia requires a steady hand, and, in Obama, the US has just that.
Despite these challenges, China’s leaders anticipate that, in the longer term, the renminbi’s inclusion in the SDR basket will help to bring about the currency’s steady appreciation and, by serving as a kind of certification of credibility, support its continued internationalization.
By demonstrating its confidence in the renminbi’s continued rise, the IMF has reinforced global expectations of – and lent implicit support to – the renminbi’s progress toward internationalization.Whatever challenges China faces, its steady march to the forefront of the global economy is set to continue.
The problem is that maintaining a steady, uncontaminated supply of donor blood is not always easy.
For example, a decade ago, contracts promising a steady supply of Argentine gas at pre-set prices led Chile to spend billions refitting its power stations.
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