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Sowell’s careful analysis of the data, which was available before the pandemic struck, shows that students in publicly funded but privately operated charter schools like Success Academy in New York City score remarkably higher on standardized achievement tests than do those in traditional public schools.
We saw an example of this in September, when Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities were struck in a nighttime drone attack.
Before the pandemic struck, sovereign creditors were adamant about avoiding another HIPC-type effort.
In April, South Korea’s Supreme Court struck down the country’s abortion law as unconstitutional, setting the stage for decriminalization this year.
As journalists rushed to cover the aftermath, a second bomber struck, killing himself and nine journalists, including Shah Marai, the AFP news agency’s chief photographer in the country.
What if the only way to save a child from being struck and killed by a runaway train is to divert it down a siding where it will destroy your most precious possession, a vintage Bugatti, into which you have sunk most of your savings?
With his New Deal programs being consistently struck down by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, Roosevelt sought legislation that would allow him to appoint additional justices.
Worse, just as the FOMB began its work, Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the island in 2017, weakening the economy further.
But emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) – especially those that already had unsustainable debt burdens before the pandemic struck – have much less room to maneuver.
It is a poignant irony that the pandemic has struck on the UN’s 75th anniversary.
Worse, COVID-19 is the first pandemic to have struck a thoroughly integrated global economy.
In announcing the outcome of the Fed’s monetary-policy strategy review last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized that America’s black and Hispanic communities had also benefited from tight labor markets before COVID-19 struck.
With his willingness to install toadies in so many top national-security jobs, Trump has already struck a serious blow to the system of alliances that forms the basis of US power and influence in the world.
Xi’s government has now struck its heaviest blow yet.
Moreover, many developing economies were already being crushed by a mountain of external debt before the pandemic struck.
Their profligacy and autonomy struck many of the founders, especially James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington, as subversive.
Only Multilateralism Can Save UsWASHINGTON, DC – The global economy was ripe for a recession even before the coronavirus pandemic struck.
In the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the US Air Force struck Iraq’s concealed enrichment plants with impunity.
The world economy was weak, and getting weaker, when COVID-19 struck.
In February 2015, President Beji Caid Essebsi, founder of the secular political party Nidaa Tounes, struck a deal with Rached Ghannouchi, president of the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party, to form a coalition government.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, around two billion people globally were experiencing food insecurity, and close to 750 million faced chronic or severe hunger.
On the other hand, the US has struck a severe blow to Iran’s soft underbelly.
When the virus struck, they lacked both the relevant equipment and isolation units, because these were not profitable in normal times.
By highlighting the problem of wealth inequality and providing a pithy explanation of it, Piketty struck a chord.
After Typhoon Ondoy struck the Philippines in 2009, for example, people living in informal settlements worked with city officials to design resilient housing that could withstand future flooding.
Within a month, the two sides were back to the negotiating table, and in just three days struck a deal to break the deadlock, agreeing to form an 11-member joint military-civilian authority to run Sudan during an interim period of 39 months.
Through it all, I have chatted with roadside vendors, students, and strangers in cafés, and when one does this it is impossible not to be struck by how similar people are across the planet.
Rather than casting about for something new or simply different from the Fed, they can embark on the same rules-based-policy path that the Fed itself was on before the pandemic struck.
To be sure, the United States has selected all 12 previous World Bank presidents, owing to an informal deal it struck with European governments after World War II, granting the Europeans the pick of the top job at the International Monetary Fund in exchange.
Each time a crisis has struck, Euroskeptics have criticized the European project for taking away national control, whether over borders, safety, or money.
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