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Instead, it's a very pleasant, charming and even often thoughtful time capsule of the social and political upheavals of the groovy early 70's (the subplot involving Lynn and the revolutionaries is especially potent and provocative).
The movie depicts the fatal passivity of people who think they're safe, that monstrous social upheavals won't touch them.
Yes, of course, there is small reference to the upheavals and uprisings in India and going to San Francisco could have been for reasons of escape.
Cooper, and writer John McGreevey (working from a sub-standard book by Christopher Finch), perhaps were hoping to show us Judy's natural pluck and verve despite upheavals in the Gumm household--but, if so, somebody forgot to tell young McArdle.
The single currency was conceived as an answer to the upheavals of the postwar period – double-digit inflation, high unemployment, and speculative attacks on the pound, the lira, and the French franc.
The upheavals in Tunis and Cairo were first called the Arab Spring, because they seemed to be contained to the Arab world.
The political upheavals of 2016 suggest that many people are frustrated with democratic inaction.
Insurance claims against natural disasters rose to unprecedented levels during the 1990s, suggesting that the social costs of environmental upheavals have intensified.
Climate shocks such as the fierce El Nino of 1997-98 played a major role in recent economic upheavals.
The fact that his family had fled India upon Partition gave him an additional chip on his shoulder: it was widely said that he saw relations with India as a series of opportunities to wreak vengeance for what his family had suffered in the refugee upheavals of 1947.
Upheavals in the Arab world suggest that no regime in the Middle East is entrenched;Iran’s leaders would have to be blind not to have taken note.
The upheavals resulting from momentous technological change are rarely expected.
Literacy is a necessary precondition for advanced education and critical thinking, which are at the core of our ability to respond to the economic, social, and environmental upheavals many regions are experiencing.
Here, after all, was a meeting that, through tough but successful negotiations, reestablished international order after the upheavals caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Fixing Fixed-Investment IncentivesLONDON – Back in February, I noted that the global economy at the end of 2016 was in a stronger cyclical position than most people had expected, given the political upheavals of the previous 12 months.
These huge demographic upheavals are irrevocably transforming the region’s social and political identity.
Just as Britain’s referendum proved uncannily predictive of Trump’s win, Trump looks like a leading indicator of populist upheavals in Europe, which could trigger another euro crisis and threaten the breakup of the European Union.
“The recent economic and financial upheavals,” he declared, “have thrown a glaring light on the shortcomings of the intellectual tools provided by mainstream economics and its key assumptions regarding the sustainability of self-regulating markets,” especially “largely unregulated global financial markets.”
The Twilight of Angela MerkelBERLIN – Amid all the crises and upheavals that have battered the European Union over the past decade, one fixed point has been the stolid, stable government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The protests by artists, intellectuals and opposition politicians that followed were the biggest political upheavals since 1989.
For economies already constrained by weakened fiscal positions, trade-induced upheavals would be costly.
They provide income and employment security for workers whose lives might otherwise be subject to tumultuous upheavals.
The rise of the Deutsche Mark and the currencies in neighboring countries during the foreign exchange market upheavals of recent years made this problem even more painful.
The US is suffering from non-inclusive growth patterns and related political and social upheavals.
The political upheavals of 1999-2000 resulted in a new “democratic” constitution that became an invitation to civil war.
But to understand how Pius’s reputation began to be challenged, we must see Hochhuth’s play within the context of the great social and cultural upheavals of the 1960’s.
Indeed, these upheavals may act as informal checks on official power.
The Arab upheavals are a by-product of the inexorable process of globalization in the twenty-first century, with almost instantaneous communications and increasing contact with the West transforming social and economic expectations.
In contrast, the EU is once again showing itself to be irresolute and riven by internal divisions on both the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (or lack thereof) and the Arab upheavals.
Despite the attention devoted to the “Global War on Terrorism,” the most important developments of the last ten years have been the introduction and spread of innovative information technologies, globalization, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the political upheavals in the Middle East.
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