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Some of the front pages devoted to the supposedly terminally ill Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) might have inspired all the drivel that was supposed to be a tribute to unfortunate Di.
We have constructed it from unfortunate habits of thought about how to handle spiraling public debt.
However, the laudable effort to prevent such a thing from recurring has had unfortunate consequences.
This is especially unfortunate nowadays, when the structure of the global economy is changing rapidly.
Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled “schizophrenic,” considered to be the most extreme form of “mental illness,” and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.
This makes BPO an easy target for populists, which is unfortunate because what developed countries really need is a flexible workforce.
This is unfortunate, as the TPP would have revolutionized intellectual property rights and boosted transparency to unprecedented levels, while lowering tariff and non-tariff barriers.
As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 74, “The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”
It would be unfortunate if the finance ministers merely sit around and beg Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet to rescue them with rate cuts.
More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers’ legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes.
This is unfortunate, because finding a new shared vision for Arab people, especially Arab youth, is a prerequisite for ever achieving peace and prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa.
On this issue, however, there are unfortunate realities that few will admit.
This is an unfortunate truth.
There were no major, unfortunate incidents; the constant protests were strident but not especially violent or well-attended; no significant slights or mishaps took place; and President Bush achieved what he probably was most interested in: sending a message back to the United States that he actually is interested in more than Iraq.
In this increasingly fragmented and polarized political landscape, the process of forming national governments has become long and arduous; even Sweden is following this unfortunate new pattern.
Citizens no longer accept the argument that this unfortunate outcome reflects the banks’ special economic role.
This is not only unfortunate; it is also dangerous, because the Fed’s political position is much more precarious than its leadership seems to realize.
That American troops are being withdrawn from Korea and sent to Iraq is both unfortunate and revealing.
He can expect little if any help from his own party which, preoccupied by the need to find a new leader to succeed the unfortunate Juppe, is now paying the price of Chirac's inability to communicate effectively with the French people and is not inclined to consult him about its new choice.
Can this vicious circle - which is not just a theoretical threat but an unfortunate reality in many countries - be broken?
We have seen unfortunate examples of that repeatedly in the West in recent years, and there are no guarantees that China’s newly installed leaders will avoid comparable pitfalls.
So it is unfortunate that America abandoned the Kyoto process for combating global warming, instead of trying to move that process toward sensible market-based solutions and away from the regulatory mechanism beloved of bureaucrats everywhere.
That is unfortunate, because Fox will not be around forever.
It may be unfortunate that Realpolitik is the order of the day, but it is, so others must learn to play the same game.
Turkey has long portrayed the massacre of the Armenians as uncoordinated and unfortunate acts resulting from the chaos of World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
The incident’s timing was particularly unfortunate, as it coincided with efforts to reach an agreement to keep a residual deployment of US troops in Afghanistan beyond the planned 2014 departure of foreign combat forces.
Ba’asyir’s release is undeniably unfortunate and possibly dangerous – but it is the consequence of legal proceedings, not any sudden radicalization of Indonesia.
Ultimately, the question is whether South Africa, like Zimbabwe, sees itself as a black African nation with a few unfortunate impurities, or as the “rainbow nation” promoted by Nelson Mandela, a country that is stronger because it builds on its knowhow and celebrates its diversity.
Accordingly, the underperformance of SWF equity portfolios might be a consequence of unfortunate, but constrained, timing, rather than a result of poor stock picking.
An unfortunate chain of political events in Russia, or insufficient care by NATO in its handling of Russian interests and sensitivities could contribute to the strengthening of a "Versailles Treaty" syndrome in Russia.
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