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It is because of the importance of education in making me an exception that I am so deeply troubled by a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights.
Anyone who believes in the rights of all children to quality education should be troubled by a decision so myopic.
You have Senator Dodd’s Resolution Authority and you enter the decisive meeting determined not to save the troubled bank – or, at worst, to save it with a substantial “haircut” (i.e., losses) for unsecured creditors.
China has an advantage that other countries in today’s troubled global economy lack: a clear path forward.
Unemployment has remained persistently high, investment is plummeting, and the banking sector is deeply troubled.
There is a remarkably simple alternative that does not require southern Europe’s troubled economies to abandon the euro and devalue their exchange rates.
But, together with debt restructuring, accommodative monetary policy, liquidity support from the European Central Bank, and much-required structural reforms, they can help to put these troubled economies on a sound footing without a euro breakup or a major austerity-induced recession.
Draghi’s declaration worked, prompting a sharp decline in risk premiums across the eurozone’s troubled economies.
But Latin America is deeply troubled; it needs decisive, bold leadership at home and imaginative, unwavering support abroad.
But it recognizes that what Europe’s troubled countries need most is not money, but the planning and administrative capacity to spend it effectively.
The eurozone’s troubled periphery – including Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland – offers excellent conditions for harvesting renewable energy from the sun, wind, and geothermal sources.
Beyond reducing debt, renewable-energy concessions would stimulate troubled eurozone economies by employing people to construct and maintain the projects – thereby helping distressed countries to reduce their record-high youth unemployment.
Arrhenius was not in the least troubled by the prospect of global warming.
This gives troubled eurozone countries the upper hand in negotiations and enables them to flout agreed measures.
It also makes one wonder whether a creative genius like Fischer, deeply troubled yet supremely functional at the chessboard, would be able to exist in today’s unforgiving online world.
Prohibition is embedded so deeply in the American psyche – and that of other countries troubled by illicit drug use and the narcotics trade – that drug-policy reform is a non-starter in many environments.
In 1930, in similarly troubled times, none other than John Maynard Keynes tried his hand at it, with the famous essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.”
Many French were troubled by the explosion of joy that followed the victory of the Algerian soccer team over Egypt in its qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
This feeling has deeply troubled its leaders and filled its people with a sense that, despite all their economic progress, their proper place in the world was not only eluding them, but being denied to them by the endless criticism of the so-called “developed world.”
These unfortunate – and ultimately disastrous – events established an unstable foundation in a strategic country at the core of a highly troubled yet vital region of the world.
During the past decade or so, greater peace and the fragile beginnings of democracy came to such troubled nations as South Africa, Mozambique, Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
Havel was undoubtedly a deeply thoughtful person, a citizen of the world, troubled by humanity’s indifference to its own future.
As an Arab woman, I find it impossible to sit back and watch – or worse, turn away – as parts of the Middle East suffer through such a difficult time in the region’s already troubled history.
Despite Argentina’s obvious differences from the eurozone’s troubled southern economies, the Argentine currency rollercoaster provides sobering lessons for European policymakers to ponder.
The indigenous people are an amalgam of echoes from all the great wars of empire that have troubled the recent American conscience.
Ellsberg was troubled that such a plan existed; years later, he tried to leak the details of nuclear annihilation to the public.
The US public is deeply troubled by the accumulation of public debt, and the Republican opposition has been extremely successful in blaming the Crash of 2008 – and the subsequent recession and high unemployment – on government ineptitude, as well as in claiming that the stimulus package was largely wasted.
Ever hopeful of a change of heart in northern Europe, troubled governments stay the course, and the suffering of their people increases.
Economic sanctions that are hurting Iran’s troubled economy could be eased.
What about troubled teenagers?
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