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Before that, the initial "strategic" bombing will be of unprecedented dimensions, but not because there will be more strike aircraft than in the Gulf War.
Now all US and British strike aircraft use precision weapons.
The Israelis then explained to their hosts – in considerable detail – the potential economic consequences for China if an Israeli strike on Iran should become necessary in order to stop Iran from fulfilling its “nuclear ambitions.”
Not surprisingly, many Russians’ responses would strike an economist as failing to appreciate the market’s virtues as a mechanism to bring supply and demand into equilibrium.
This conclusion will strike many people – especially those of us who live on the fringes of Silicon Valley – as implausible.
Letter from PalestineAre Israelis and Palestinians really ready to strike a peace agreement?
Unless the leaders of the two countries can strike a deal at next month’s G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, the situation is likely to worsen.
And, of course, the new scoring will also be important to the companies themselves, and for policymakers who are trying to strike a balance between “pull” incentives and current priority-drug needs.
A nuclear strike would have incalculable consequences, and the Muslim world would in this case stand together.
Fortunately, innovation and technology can help strike this long-elusive balance.
Legal Power to the PeopleNEW DELHI – Inspired by Anna Hazare’s hunger strike, thousands of people gathered at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi to protest governmental corruption.
The IPCC clearly states that hurricane-damage costs have increased steadily because more people, with more expensive property, now live where hurricanes strike.
He argues that street protests should combine with a general strike.
The second is to launch a preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the Iranian program and setting back its progress by an estimated two or more years.
And there are signs that, regardless of who wins November’s presidential election, the US might well undertake an armed strike, with potential destruction much greater than if Israel were to act alone.
That would make it less difficult to keep economic pressure on Iran in the aftermath of any strike.
China suffers from under-consumption and possible over-investment, and needs to strike a balance between the state-owned sector and private enterprise.
A unilateral military strike would carry potentially dire consequences.
Indeed, Iranian hardliners may welcome an Israeli strike, and even seek to provoke it, as a means of rallying the Iranian population behind them.
Honda has offered its transmission-factory workers in China a 24% wage increase to head off a crippling strike.
A direct US attack on Syria without UN backing is far more likely to inflame the region than it is to resolve the crisis there – a point well appreciated in the United Kingdom, where Parliament bucked the government by rejecting British participation in a military strike.
For example, harmonizing insolvency regimes across the continent and reducing tax incentives that favor debt over equity, while entirely logical, strike at the heart of member states' remaining sovereignty, and thus will be extremely difficult to push forward.
An aid cutoff should be a policy of last resort, not a first strike.
Increased global production and falling technology costs could strike a severe blow to Africa, where economic development is likely to stall without industrialization and the expanding youth bubble shows no sign of deflating.
The Commission must strike down public aid to private companies in France as it strikes such subsidies down in any other EU member state.
Lessons learned as a young politician shape his approach: create mutual trust by making buddies of opponents, then strike a deal that both sides can live with.
China’s attacks have pushed Li, after almost three weeks of stony silence, to do something he had never done before: strike back.
The participation of Under Secretary of State William Burns in the European dialogue with Iran, together with plans to station American diplomats in Teheran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, represents a momentous shift in America’s policy, and also an indication to Israel to refrain from a military strike.
One reason is that countries are happy to strike their own side deals to ensure generous lending.
Hugo Chavez's government faced a widespread opposition strike, whose intent was not only to demonstrate popular opposition, but also to starve the government of revenue.
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