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After years of official denial, that horrifying incident triggered awareness that terrorism does exist in Indonesia and that Indonesia's home grown fanatics are connected to a global terrorist network.
The sub-prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions’ key lines of business, particularly their opaque but extremely profitable derivatives businesses.
But, as with today’s toxic assets, there was no market, and rapid disinvestment would have triggered fire-sale prices, depressing all asset values in the economy and resulting in more bank failures.
Many investors still believe the post-crisis recovery is doomed, because it was triggered by unsustainable monetary policies.
When the government tried to rein in the market last summer, it inadvertently triggered a large-scale sell-off, which quickly turned into a rout, largely because of those same financial innovations (for example, margin trading).
On the other side are those who call for the creditors who triggered the excessive debt to be punished for their imprudence.
His investigation triggered an avalanche that continues to reverberate around the world today, as many other multinational companies come under scrutiny.
Hite’s important assertion that there is more to female sexual response than penetration triggered a wave of information about female sexuality.
Five years from its outbreak, the fallout from the financial crisis and recession triggered by the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers continues.
What the report does not mention is that this ambiguity has another important implication: a serious cyber conflict could easily be triggered by accident.
Low interest rates eventually jump-started the expansion through a house price bubble that supported a debt-financed consumer-spending binge and triggered a construction boom.
The first reason for this is that stock-market busts can be triggered by interest-rate increases, which are often a response to economic expansion.
It seems to have been triggered by a February 2 report that US wages had increased more than expected, as well as the fact that inflation has risen in the US and the United Kingdom.
Market forces and policy conflicts triggered shadow banking’s emergence in China.
As she went through a messy divorce triggered by an unfaithful husband, millions of women shared her pain.
Nonetheless, many are fretting that China’s exchange-rate adjustment has triggered a “currency war,” with other emerging economies devaluing as well.
Similarly, over-fishing of sharks in the Caribbean has triggered a rise in octopus and a drastic drop in spiny lobsters and scallops – two major sources of revenue for neighboring coastal communities.
Each cycle of regulation and de-regulation is triggered by economic crisis.
The last liberal cycle, associated with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the economist John Maynard Keynes, was triggered by the Great Depression, though it took World War II’s massive government spending to get it properly going.
The new conservative cycle was triggered by the inflation of the 1970’s, which seemed to be a product of Keynesian policies.
Putin connects two events that triggered WWII, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in one causal construction.
For the last 50 years, government ownership of vast commercial holdings has triggered a polarized debate, especially in Europe, but recently also in the United States.
Though it is impossible to predict how events may unfold, there are precedents in the many conflicts triggered by the breakdowns of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
In Japan, the relentless criticism has triggered a nationalist backlash, spurring politicians to respond in kind during last year’s election campaign.
While the rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, the latest flare-up – which has included widespread anti-Japanese demonstrations in China – was triggered in September 2012, when Japan’s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.
The end of the Soviet Union also triggered a profound military crisis in many Arab states: without Soviet support as an external guarantor of their military capabilities, the nationalist regimes were no longer able to keep pace with military modernization.
It was Serbia, Yugoslavia’s largest federal unit, which, led by Slobodan Milosevic, triggered the great Balkans crisis and caused numerous wars and “ethnic cleansings” as the federation collapsed at the start of the 1990’s.
Kenya’s new feed-in tariff has triggered a rapid expansion of geothermal capacity, and, at 300MW, the largest wind-farm project in sub-Saharan Africa.
Learning that a wealthy American had found a traditional African skirt worthy of a place in his home triggered the same feeling.
Severe unrest in the Middle East has historically been a source of oil-price spikes, which in turn have triggered three of the last five global recessions.
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