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After the crisis struck, instead of recognizing the decline in potential growth and adjusting accordingly, the government remained implicitly wedded to an unrealistic target of 10% annual GDP growth.
But the silent run on the yen could easily lead to a speculative attack, like that which struck Japan’s neighbors during the Asian financial crisis in the 1990’s.
Since having its territorial claims in the South China Sea struck down by a Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016, China has continued to threaten smaller regional players’ maritime access there.
Those images are of children’s shriveled, vitrified bodies; of the wounded whose limbs, for lack of drugs, have been amputated by desperate doctors who are soon massacred themselves; of women mown down by rocket fire, as in Sarajevo 24 years ago, while waiting in line to buy yogurt or bread; of volunteers struck down while digging through the rubble in search of survivors; of human beings drained of strength, surviving in filth and waste, saying goodbye to life.
Then the Money Power struck back, aided and abetted by its apologist cohort of economists.
But these human-induced threats are different: They are new, so we have had limited exposure to them and cannot be so sanguine that, if disaster struck, we would survive for long – or that governments could cope.
One is that Somali al-Shabaab terrorists had struck again.
The Iranian economy is a wreck after years of international sanctions, and the government has not yet managed to take advantage of the nuclear deal it struck with the US to rebuild it.
When the crisis struck, the 3% deficit target became the focal point for unrelenting austerity – a form of what anthropologist Clifford Geertz described as “involution,” which occurs when a process intensifies rather than changes in response to external or internal pressure.
Europe’s Fight Against TerrorismThree years ago this month, international terrorism struck Europe.
A Reprieve for Global GovernanceMADRID – The last-minute deal struck at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, offers a glimmer of hope for the future not just of climate action, but also of global governance.
The deal struck in Katowice – to which even the US agreed – shows that, when the stakes are high enough, cooperation is possible.
It is a man-made crisis that has struck every sphere of society and the state.
And, until Tony Blair struck it out in 1995, Clause 4 of the party’s constitution still promised “common ownership of the means of production” and “popular control” of industry.
This is one reason why, under Corbyn, the hard left struck back and finally managed to wrest power from the compromisers.
I am often struck by the way many Europeans use arms-length euphemisms when talking about immigrants: they want immigrants to feel “welcome” or “comfortable.”
As someone who was intimately involved in economic policy making in the US, I have always been struck by the divergence between the policies that America pushes on developing countries and those practiced in the US itself.
They take their seats and, as Sam waves to Sally sitting with her classmates, he is struck by how quickly 17 years have passed.
And so, after six months of bargaining, a historic deal was struck.
In six months, a deal is supposed to be struck in Copenhagen, so the MEF meeting comes at a vital moment.
Eight weeks later, Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey shore and New York City.
What struck me was that, apart from their being imprisoned, these young men seemed entirely normal, and their individual journeys toward extremism were not particularly informed by religion.
The Soviet economists seemed enthusiastic about a transition to a market economy, and I was struck by how openly they spoke to us during coffee breaks or at dinner.
Rather, the agreement’s main significance consists in the fact that it was struck at all: US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva, that most traditional of diplomatic venues, and cut a deal on an issue of intense mutual interest.
Droughts have struck in Kenya and Somalia; and Afghanistan and South Africa have suffered major water shortages.
Frankly, no one knows what legislative deal will be struck to raise the debt ceiling.
Indeed, the UK is something of a latecomer: thirteen countries already allow gay marriage, and the usually conservative current US Supreme Court recently struck down the “Defense of Marriage Act,” adopted in 1996 explicitly to ban gay marriages, and a law prohibiting gay marriage in California.
In November 1970, tropical cyclone “Bhola” struck East Pakistan, killing between 300,000 and 500,000 people.
But if any denial of academic liberty is a blow struck against the meaning of a university, the irony today is that some of the most worrying attacks on these values have been coming from inside universities.
In public, most of them are more polite, but the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, struck a chord recently when he called for a reevaluation of how much progress has been made on addressing the problem of financial institutions that are “too big to fail” (TBTF).
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