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Elsewhere, the gender pay gap remains striking, notably in football (soccer).
The result is low capital spending, one of the striking anomalies of the current recovery, which in turn can explain other troubling aspects of the recovery, from slow growth to low interest rates.
Equally striking was the loss of faith in markets.
Yet what is striking is that Italian manufacturers have almost entirely failed to carve out a position in this booming sector.
But striking the proper balance is challenging.
In the US, the statistics are striking at both ends of the income distribution.
Brexit, Voice, and LoyaltyPRINCETON – Albert Hirschman, who died at the end of last year, was a great economist with a gift for producing striking insights by focusing on an element of observable behavior as a way to transform our view of a whole range of particular problems.
In an ideal world, major tech companies would recognize and adjust to their changing role in step with external actors, including governments and consumers, thereby striking the right balance between innovation, consumer benefits and protection, and national security.
In striking the right balance between immediate economic stimulus and medium-term fiscal sustainability, the most urgent step will be to counter properly the looming fiscal cliff, as temporary tax cuts expire and deep, across-the-board spending reductions kick in automatically.
But a striking finding is that GDP is far from being the sole determinant of social progress.
Indeed, it is striking that the majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina believe that their leaders are not interested in their country joining the EU.
Then, in early July, Gomes soared to 28%, within striking distance of Lula who had declined to 33%.
A striking feature of this drive is its moralizing tone.
But what is most striking is that it took markets so long to reach this conclusion.
The similarity to the wars in Syria and Iraq is striking.
Europe’s contemporary problems offer striking parallels with previous problems on the periphery of the world economy.
It believes that terrorist attacks in Europe will deter the West from striking territories it controls, and it wants to avenge the more than 20,000 members it has lost to Western coalition airstrikes.
Even the US Supreme Court cited its reasoning when striking down anti-homosexuality laws in Texas in 2003.
The French debate about executive compensation is particularly striking in this respect, because managers’ salaries are in fact lower than those paid to their German, British, and American counterparts, and their remuneration has grown in step with corporate share prices, increasing six-fold in 25 years.
At the moment, the United Kingdom provides a striking example of post-populist economics at work.
AIPAC represents a striking anomaly in the life of American Jews.
Income inequality will likely start widening again, despite striking improvements in median family income and the poverty rate last year.
Indeed, there is a striking parallel between the problems caused by aid inflows and the “natural resource curse” (or “Dutch disease” as it is termed in Western countries), whereby inflows into one economic sector – typically oil or minerals – drive up economy-wide prices (including the exchange rate), rendering other sectors uncompetitive.
But, despite this impressive list of achievements, the most striking part of Abe’s trip came at the end.
In October 2009, near-Earth object (NEO) trackers Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, placed the odds of Apophis striking Earth in 2036 at about one in 233,000, lower than previous estimates.
Striking that balance is the biggest challenge facing China.
The contrast between the Ice Bucket Challenge and this summer’s other major health story, the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history, could not be more striking.
In the past, such tribunals have interpreted the requirement that foreign investors receive “fair and equitable treatment” as grounds for striking down new government regulations – even if they are non-discriminatory and are adopted simply to protect citizens from newly discovered egregious harms.
By striking Paris, the Islamic State has turned the Syrian war into a global conflict.
A Post-Crisis World of RiskMILAN – The global economy’s most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces.
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