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In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole; but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.
A swing amounting to 30 percentage points of GDP (and sometimes much larger) is not uncommon in this group.
To illustrate, a mere 1% decrease in a state’s obesity on average is estimated to raise the ratio of Democratic to Republican voters from 1.00 to 1.07, easily enough to swing an election.
The election outcome distorted the actual electoral swing and fueled Malay fears that their political dominance through UMNO had been weakened.
Ten of the swing votes are Democrats, mainly from coal states; the other six are Republicans who conceivably could vote with the president and the Democratic majority.
The Western view of apes regarded them as akin to Rousseau's "noble savage" - autonomous individuals, devoid of social ties and obligations, driven by instinct to swing haphazardly from one fruit tree to the next.
Obama Goes SouthMEXICO CITY – US President Barack Obama’s current swing through Latin America will probably be short on substance, long on rhetorical flourishes and symbolism, and may include a few announcements affecting American business in the region.
What it will lose on the Pakistani swing it will more than gain on the Chinese roundabout.
Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980’s.
But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.
Europeans’ views of Asia in general, and China in particular, are more complex and swing from lucid adjustment to a new and respected competitor to pure ideological rejection.
Experts and InequalityNEW YORK – Ten years ago this month, the world glimpsed the first clear signals of an economic crisis that, a year later, would be in full swing, creating economic hardship of a kind not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The election is not until November 2016, and very few candidates have formally thrown their hats into the ring, but the competition to promote and develop ideas – both behind closed doors and publicly – is in fully swing.
This should moderate bulls’ willingness to increase their long positions, thereby limiting the magnitude of the swing.
Is there a case for a pendulum swing back to the more political powers, notably the legislature?
I believe that such a swing is necessary.
At the same time, Park is working to placate discontented supporters and attract swing voters by blaming the conglomerates’ greedy business practices for breeding anti-chaebol sentiment.
At the same time, oil markets are discovering what it is like to operate under the regime of a new swing producer: the United States.
Adding to the supply-side changes was Saudi Arabia’s subsequent historic announcement that it would no longer lead OPEC in playing the role of swing producer.
Playing the role of swing producer was coming at a growing cost to both current and future generations of Saudi citizens.
As for the new swing producer, the US has a much slower (and leakier) reaction function relative to that of Saudi Arabia and OPEC.
But, unlike the previous swing producer, this will result from traditional market forces, not policy decisions.
At the end of the day, no swing producer controls the fate of today’s oil prices.
Brazil is similarly paralyzed, partly because of its presidential election campaign, which is currently in full swing and will conclude only at the end of the year, and partly because of recent diplomatic setbacks.
Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.
Instead, Koizumi appealed to an electoral majority comprising urban and suburban swing voters.
It is clear from the last three decades of floating currencies that market-determined exchange rates tend to swing widely and persistently from parity levels that would make comparable goods sell at comparable prices in different countries.
This should moderate their willingness to do so, thereby limiting the magnitude of the currency swing.
This benefits advertising agencies and the media, but no one else, and surely not the parties themselves, or the viewers who are bombarded with ads, especially if they happen to live in hotly contested swing states.
On the contrary, the more uncertainty there is about the scarcity of a resource, the greater the price swing, which only compounds the planning difficulty.
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