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The effects of the social welfare system are especially striking in Eastern Germany, where benefits are at Western German levels, despite lagging far behind in economic development.
And a third unsettled issue is how long Israel or the US will tolerate Iranian efforts before striking militarily.
In the meantime, Pakistan continues to pay the price for Bin Laden’s death, with his supporters striking a town not far from Islamabad just days later, killing more than 80 people.
The most striking development, however, was the loss of international reserves in the year following the Tahrir Square revolution.
But perhaps the most striking instance of dishonest leadership has been in the United Kingdom, where the Brexit referendum and its aftermath have caused more instability than Britain experiences in a typical decade.
One of the most striking lessons of the British case – and many others – is that promising efforts to hold business leaders to account and ensure that companies behave ethically have not carried over to our political systems.
But al-Shabaab retains control of the majority of Somalia and remains capable of striking Mogadishu, the capital, as well as Nairobi.
The record is striking: the fastest growing countries are never the countries with the highest per capita incomes but always a subset of the lower-income countries.
Striking the right balance between market-based product innovation and state-led institutional innovation will be the main challenge that China faces in the years ahead.
What is so striking about the agenda for Gorbachev's conference is that much of it was written as if the last 20 years have never happened.
What was most striking was how flagrantly dismissive he was of Israel’s most fundamental national narrative.
Economists arrived at some striking correlations.
Although their political systems are mirror opposites, there are striking parallels in some of China’s and India’s deepest structural problems.
But inequality continued to worsen – with striking data showing that average life expectancy in the US was on the decline.
What is striking about No Easy Day and the Vanity Fair article is that the rationale for legal due process is reflected in every other paragraph.
Brazil and India are particularly striking in this regard.
North Korea has threatened to retaliate against the US “thousands of times” over – including by striking the US territory of Guam in the western Pacific – and reiterated its vow to never give up its nuclear arsenal.
What was striking during this European championship was the intimate collegiality between opposing players.
On January 3, five striking garment workers were shot dead in Phnom Penh while peacefully demanding a minimum livable wage.
It’s striking how difficult America makes it to vote, to exercise the basic right of citizenship.
He seems to make public comments on just about everything, and always in a way that leaves the AfD with nothing to add and undermines Merkel without striking at her directly.
It’s incomprehensible, then, why the US, having succeeded in striking a deal with Libya, vehemently rejects any initiative toward Syria.
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The Poverty of DictatorshipCAMBRIDGE – Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations’ recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Most pundits interpret Trump’s outbursts as playing to his political base, or preening for the cameras, or blustering for the sake of striking future deals.
Austerity According to St. AugustineSANTIAGO – The guardians of austerity in Europe are striking back.
Even more striking perhaps, French public bodies spend 12 percentage points of GDP more than those in Germany, with no significant difference in outcomes in terms of health, education, or poverty.
Either it is like lightning, striking some unlucky woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an isolated, mysterious event, caused by some individual man’s sudden psychopathology), or it is “explained” by some seductive transgression by the victim (the wrong dress, a misplaced smile).
Comparisons with the period immediately before the Berlin Wall came down are striking.
Still, striking the right balance is never easy.
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