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Technological progress now threatens that route to prosperity.
It is not so much China’s relatively high income inequality, but the social tensions created by insiders’ privileged access to markets and transactions, that threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy and the effectiveness of its governance.
The continuing polio PHEIC is endangering the success of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), into which the world has invested $15 billion since it was launched in 1988; and it threatens global health generally.
Re-Energizing the EurozoneUTRECHT – As Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis threatens to unravel the common currency and roils the region’s banks, Europe’s pioneering “green energy” sector could be at risk.
On the contrary, whenever recession threatens, political debate revolves around whether they need to be reinforced by additional stimulus via discretionary fiscal policy.
The weakest link in the security chain threatens everyone, and that means a system is needed to identify and strengthen the weak links – a system in which states take steps to build confidence in – and accountability for – their security performance.
And in a world of radical automation potential, which threatens low wage growth and rising inequality, a rapidly growing workforce is neither necessary nor beneficial, and a slightly contracting supply of workers may create useful incentives to improve productivity and support real wage growth.
It threatens the stability of ecosystems, undermines economic development, and compromises the health of billions of people.
The crisis in Cyprus – which threatens to cause the country’s banking system to collapse and force Cyprus out of the eurozone – could make the situation even more difficult to manage.
Malaria threatens many regions and HIV/AIDS has devastated the youth of many African nations, including Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, where an estimated 25% of adults are afflicted with this deadly disease.
Crass tribalism now threatens to overwhelm all that unites us in our common care for our children, our planet, and our future.
More than 150 independent Palestinian journalists have signed an Avaaz petition stating that his murder sets “a dangerous precedent that threatens the lives of journalists, their right to free expression, the freedom of journalistic work, and the right of the public to know.”
The classes also include basic education about our moods, and several exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how participants can best look after themselves when a crisis threatens to overwhelm them.
But the weakness of manufacturing is a drag on India’s overall economic performance and threatens the sustainability of its growth.
By awakening dormant fears, this debate threatens to halt what to many had seemed like a budding nuclear renaissance.
So Kuchma endangers freedom and human rights not only in Ukraine, but ultimately threatens Russia's democracy as well.
Today, a very different race is taking place – a race for the earth’s vital resources, and it threatens to undermine stability in key regions of the world.
After globalization made it easier to move manufacturing and service jobs from rich to poor countries, growing automation now threatens to move jobs from humans to robots.
The euro crisis threatens the EU’s very existence.
But achieving success in Afghanistan – defined as achieving a sustainable democratic regime able to contain political violence, prevent the reconstruction of a terrorist base with global reach, and dampen a narcotics-funded insurgency that threatens neighboring countries – requires greater policy harmonization among the world powers that have a stake in the outcome.
But a bitter power struggle between Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and a schism among the rebel Tamil tigers, now threatens to reignite the violence.
Meanwhile, defense attorneys may try to lessen their client’s culpability by claiming insanity, as Breivik’s lawyers attempted to do after he killed 77 people to protest the multiculturalism that he claims threatens Norway.
Its failure to do so not only inflicts avoidable pain and suffering on the unemployed, but also threatens to inflict long-term costs on American society.
To hold the debate on those terms threatens to dilute the moral principle.
COPENHAGEN: The "joint reaction" of 14 European Union governments against their partner – Austria – threatens to weaken the Union at the moment when it faces its greatest challenge: opening its membership to the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.
Today, too, it is not America’s military strength that threatens or challenges China, but rather the enduring attraction of “the American dream.”
In the process, however, they slipped into an unbalanced policy mix that now threatens their continued growth and financial stability.
Trump is playing with fire when he threatens to impose import tariffs in order to “make American great again.”
The more publicly the West threatens Iran, the more easily Iranian leaders can portray America as the Great Satan to parts of the Iranian population that have recently been inclined to see the US as their friend.
Two of them offset each other, but the third threatens what America needs most in the coming years: economic growth.
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