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As Alan Greenspan candidly acknowledged recently, "I have learned more about how this new international financial system works in the last twelve months than in the previous 20 years."
There is maybe less of a French presence in the world today than there was twelve years ago when Jacques Chirac came to power, especially since the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005.
'The World When the Fed Raises RatesVIENNA – The United States Federal Reserve is the world’s most powerful bank, and its most powerful component is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the twelve men and women who meet eight times a year to determine – essentially by setting interest rates – the monetary policy of the world’s largest economy.
The Union has expanded from only twelve members then to 27 today, and has brought stability and new prosperity to approximately 100 million people in the eastern and central parts of the Continent.
Preventing two million HIV infections each year would be relatively expensive, at $2.5 billion, but would yield benefits twelve times higher.
When Bill O’Reilly of Fox News recently accused Aniston of making a movie about single motherhood – The Switch – that seems to say “to a twelve or thirteen year old girl, ‘You don’t need a man,’” he is right.
The twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) concluded an Agreement on a Free Trade Zone in 1994, but it does not work.
All twelve CIS countries had a currency union in 1992 and 1993.
As the European Union prepares to welcome up to twelve new members, debate is heating up among the leading candidate countries about whether or not speedy adoption of the euro will promote or impede rapid catch-up growth.
Twelve months later, China and the United States are caught in an unresolved trade war, and Trump’s administration has replaced US “strategic engagement” with China with “strategic competition.”
This is why I am calling on the G8 to act on a set of crucial issues over the coming twelve months.
Yet successful neo-liberal policies have not delivered the rapid increases in productivity and working-class wages that neo-liberals like me would have confidently predicted had we been told back in 1995 that Mexican exports would multiply five-fold in the next twelve years.
In practice, however, all of the Majles’s decisions are subject to the approval of the Guardian Council, an unelected body of twelve jurists (all of whom are either directly or indirectly appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei) that has the constitutional authority to vet all electoral candidates and veto any parliamentary legislation.
As a result, OPEC’s share of world oil exports dropped sharply in the twelve years following the embargo of 1973-1974.
They are right – up to a point: immediately after a normal recession, economies do, indeed, often grow much faster than usual over the ensuing twelve months.
But his two aggressive adventures - the more recent over twelve years ago - ended in humiliating failure.
In 2005, when I was Prime Minister of Denmark, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten provoked international controversy by publishing twelve sketches of the Prophet Muhammad.
He Qinglian, a well-known author, journalist, and critic of China's reforms has been watched daily by as many as twelve agents.
Twelve people died in Paris, whereas nearly 3,000 were killed in the attacks on New York and Washington, DC.
In some striking examples, the agreement between prediction and measurement has stretched out to twelve decimal places, making the Standard Model the most accurate scientific theory in human history.
Sharon's retirement is likely to come within another twelve months, with a new opposition leader having to be chosen as well.
In particular, we, alongside other partners, call upon world leaders to raise the ambition of the Declaration’s twelve commitments.
The Pandemic Response, Act IIPARIS – Twelve years ago, governments in the world’s major economies responded swiftly and effectively to the financial crisis.
Twelve minutes had passed.
'And the Princess Myagkaya, not Lisa but Bibish, is really sending a thousand rifles and twelve nurses!
It was Levaque, with his son Bébert, an urchin of twelve, a great friend of Jeanlin's.
It was like the gliding of a bird, noiseless, without a jar, this rapid flight, the continual come and go of a thread of enormous weight, capable of lifting twelve thousand kilograms at the rate of ten metres a second.
The young man, whose eyes were now becoming accustomed to the darkness, looked at her, still white with her chlorotic complexion, and he could not have told her age; he thought she must be twelve, she seemed to him so slight.
These scamps of twelve to fifteen years shouted abominable words to each other, and to warn them it was necessary to yell still more violently.
In the distribution they had divided the total property, according to the standard of the money of the time, into twenty-four sous, of which each was subdivided into twelve deniers, which made two hundred and eighty-eight deniers; and as the denier was worth ten thousand francs the capital represented a sum of nearly three millions.
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