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One of John Carpenter's earliest films, Escape from New York was a daring undertaking when it was created and isn't often fully appreciated today.
Daring undertaking for the young cast and shows that monsters, cheap shot scares and gratuitous special effects are not necessary to scare you.
Solid, well-crafted but rather patchy cinematic treatment of the saga of notorious 19th Century "Resurrectionists" Burke and Hare and their unorthodox employer Dr. Robert Knox; in the vein of Hammer horror (featuring two of their most notable participants in Cushing and Gilling) though the lack of color makes it seem a half-hearted attempt (even if, with an eye on the low-budget, it was probably a conscious choice by the film-makers as the intentions were clearly of a serious undertaking)!
Stephen Ives directs this mammoth undertaking of the history of the West in America produced by Ken Burns.
In Russia, the task is especially problematic, because the ruling elite’s interests run counter to undertaking it.
That means that after the election (which is unlikely to produce a single political force capable of undertaking this task), Greece’s center-left and center-right parties must learn to collaborate in the cause of effective governance.
This combination represents a vast administrative undertaking.
It’s not certain that such an undertaking can succeed at a time when world order is eroding and relations with Russia are strained.
Nevertheless, it is important to realize why the US is undertaking them and that they respond to a core problem of today's international order.
Countries planning new nuclear-power programs must recognize that achieving their goals is a challenging, long-term undertaking.
With the economy showing no sign of recovering the robust growth rates that had bolstered Putin’s popularity in the past, regaining support would have required undertaking the daunting task of fulfilling citizens’ demands for better education, improved health-care services, and more affordable housing.
Undertaking such a lengthening while events can be controlled need not cause any losses other than taking away the illusion of liquidity which investors now entertain but could not exercise because Brazil could not pay them.
Knitting together 17 disparate economies, cultures, and institutions was a monumental undertaking, fraught with risk.
A less efficient system is hard to imagine – other, that is, than attempting to coordinate patient care in the traditional way while undertaking the transition to electronic record keeping.
From their perspective, today’s high demand for long-term dollar-denominated securities is easily explained: Asian central banks are buying in order to hold down their currencies, the US Treasury is borrowing short (and thus not issuing that many long-term securities), and US companies are not undertaking the kinds of investments that would lead them to issue many long-term bonds.
Of course, all of that is a much harder undertaking.
If sizeable amounts of Canadian gas are to flow across the Atlantic, both Canada and Europe will need to beef up their investments in the necessary LNG terminals and storage facilities – a complex and expensive undertaking.
They worry that even after undertaking structural reforms to reduce the attractiveness of unemployment benefits and increase the ability of workers to move to jobs and of firms to move to workers, central bankers will continue to insist on tight money.
This sounds like an enormous undertaking, and it is; but, with some rail lines already existing (some for many decades), the project could be completed by the 2015 target date.
And now, seemingly out of the blue, he has defied and even offended Uribe by undertaking negotiations with the despised FARC, after having delivered such devastating military blows to them that perhaps, this time around, the peace process will prosper.
Given all of this, the ECB was entirely justified in responding (belatedly) to the 2008-2009 global recession by lowering interest rates and undertaking quantitative easing, regardless of those efforts’ contribution to a depreciation of the euro.
African leaders should use the Natural Resource Charter, launched in Oslo in 2009, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as guidelines when undertaking any mining negotiations.
And so Russia goes on, undertaking revolutionary changes and not changing at all.
And after Hollande succeeded Sarkozy in 2012, France emerged as one of the world’s most interventionist countries, undertaking military operations in the Central African Republic, the Ivory Coast, Mali, the Sahel, and Somalia before launching its airstrikes in Syria.
What is needed is a grand bargain, with countries that lack policy credibility undertaking structural reforms without delay, in exchange for more room within the EU for growth-generating measures, even at the cost of higher short-term deficits.
There is a profound difference between not supporting an undertaking deemed essential by the US and working actively to block it.
Investors will reevaluate opportunities for undertaking new initiatives.
If the Congress does not pass the IMF quota reform, the US can hardly blame the Chinese for undertaking initiatives such as the AIIB on their own.
Supporters of the US administration might fairly argue that it is undertaking long-deferred maintenance on issues such as income inequality.
One day later, President Clinton endorsed the French undertaking.
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