Waves
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Obviously, when extremely strong
waves
hit coral reefs, some coral breaks off.
Locally, but sometimes still at a grand scale, the shock
waves
cause major sediment slides on steep underwater slopes such as those of the continental shelves.
Indeed, the damage from the tsunami
waves
was far more devastating than it would have been had they still been intact.
It proved to be the tipping point, triggering
waves
of protests by lawyers and other groups in Pakistan’s main cities.
So the arrest of Politburo member and Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu on corruption charges has sent shock
waves
across the country.
On the other hand, political spillovers are strong and
waves
of change regularly cross borders, reaching the entire continent.
Following the Second World War, there were two
waves
of rapid economic convergence: one in the European periphery during the 1950s and 1960s, and another in East Asia since the 1960s.
For example, much progress in understanding sound and light resulted when scientists imagined them in terms of sea
waves.
Several studies in the past year have shown that scientists can indeed detect long-term climate change in the rising frequency of extreme events – such as heat waves, heavy rains, severe droughts, and strong storms.
To ensure precision – the motion of the
waves
affected timekeeping – a ship needed at least three chronometers.
Today, as the
waves
of market distortions from official policies in advanced economies break on emerging markets’ shores, constructing magical seawalls is not a solution.
Look at the European model: cling to the status quo, don't make waves, workers councils, Mitbestimmung, unions, and masses of well-paid unemployed people.
Two
waves
of strikes in 1988 forced General Jaruzelski’s government to negotiate with Solidarity, which, after a few months of hedging, was legalized.
Shock
waves
from the deleveraging would, in turn, spread to emerging markets like China.
So, is there anything EMDCs can do to avoid being buffeted by flooding and receding
waves
of international capital?
Like the eleventh-century Danish King Canute, who commanded the
waves
not to strike his throne, and then, setting his throne on the beach, demonstrated the fragility of his empire to the flatterers and dreamers who imagined him to be master of the universe, Macron will have to behave modestly.
To be sure, there is no such thing as perfect safety, and, historically,
waves
of terrorism have often taken a generation to recede.
The fact that heat
waves
like the one in Russia become more frequent and extreme in a warmer world is easy to understand.
Refugee migration also comes in larger
waves
than economic migration.
The higher the
waves
of doubt and uncertainty become, the more the common approach is needed.
Today we call those disturbances radio waves, microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet radiation, x-rays, and gamma rays.
We can already see the first white-capped
waves.
Because development-provoked erosion has brought the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles closer to land than it was in 1965, hurricanes are able to retain more strength, and their winds and
waves
pack more speed and destructive power.
Given the heat waves, droughts, and other climate stresses across the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere this year, wheat prices are now shooting up to their highest levels in decades.
Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve has maintained zero interest rates, while pursuing multiple
waves
of unprecedented balance-sheet expansion through large-scale bond purchases.
Earth is set to warm further in the decades ahead, bringing more and bigger fires, mudslides, heat waves, droughts, and powerful hurricanes.
It is time to accept the reality that, like the
waves
on the seas that many of the migrants traverse, the ebb and flow of human movement cannot be stopped.
The immigration
waves
of the last two years to Britain, Spain, and Italy will have significantly changed these figures, but the information needed to update the statistics is not yet available.
Before the EU’s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration
waves.
Before enlargement, it was politically incorrect to discuss possible
waves
of migration to the West, as EU politicians saw this as an obstacle to the enlargement process.
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