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Recovery began only after the balance-sheet weaknesses in the financial, household, and corporate sectors were addressed.
Politically and institutionally, however, Latin America’s weaknesses and perils worsened.
In addition to the dangerous precedent that it would set, the double-freeze solution has two fundamental weaknesses.
Of course, the weaknesses of the double-freeze approach are probably not lost on China, either.
If China truly does want a peaceful resolution to the escalating nuclear crisis, it should address the two key weaknesses of the double-freeze solution, proposing a detailed, intrusive, and stringent verification regime and committing itself to serve as the principal enforcer of the agreement.
Since the crisis erupted a decade ago, economic stagnation and costly banking weaknesses have propelled debt burdens higher still, despite a decade of exceptionally low interest rates.
And examining that connection provides a good opportunity to assess the weaknesses and ambiguities of the longstanding argument that furiously high-volume stock-market trading shortens corporate time horizons.
The country needs greater access to global markets and eventual support for admission to the World Trade Organization, which is one of the EU’s greatest selling points and one of Russia’s fundamental weaknesses.
Under Merkel’s watch, the economy has coasted, rather than addressing its mounting weaknesses.
Indeed, NATO’s accomplishment in Libya risks obscuring persistent weaknesses in Europe’s military capabilities.
They set out to address the structural weaknesses that had brought their systems down.
They may reflect deeper weaknesses in economic structures, such as a lack of competitiveness or institutional shortcomings.
That all changed with the post-2008 global economic recession, which exposed weaknesses in the monetary union’s structure.
Of course, Europe’s tech sector still has its weaknesses, reflected in its failure so far to produce a tech giant to rival the behemoths of Silicon Valley.
Should a country with weaknesses in its financial system simply avoid letting capital in?
Within three years the US had an official report on the causes of the events of 9/11; the well-resourced expert commission that produced it identified the weaknesses of America’s national-security agencies and provided recommendations for addressing them.
In a global competition, a superpower’s competitors are bound to exploit its weaknesses.
Some universal human weaknesses can result in irrational behavior during an economic boom.
This provides a good opportunity to examine the extraordinary history of cooperatives, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and rekindle a discussion about a development model that promises higher levels of inclusion, ownership, self-determination, and concern for community.
Otherwise, the eurozone’s current weaknesses will undermine the sustainability of the EMU itself, by generating uncontrollable costs that all EU countries will have to pay.
Restructuring a mega-bank requires pre-planning, familiarity with the bank’s strengths and weaknesses, knowledge of how to time the bankruptcy properly in a volatile economy, and the capacity to coordinate with foreign regulators.
Indeed, the existing order plays to Europe’s strengths, while mitigating its weaknesses.
But the Olympics will also bring intense international scrutiny of China’s weaknesses at a delicate moment in the country’s development.
Among Italy’s main economic weaknesses are its historically low levels of public investment and its creaking infrastructure, as evidenced by the tragic collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa this August.
Notwithstanding a few low-income economies catching up, the years of double-digit GDP growth are unlikely to continue – particularly in China and India – owing to the anemic external environment, together with internal weaknesses.
Likewise, although the latest measures might have some impact, cooling China’s turbulent property market – which relies on cheap credit – in the long term will require addressing underlying monetary-policy weaknesses.
The expectation that AI would overcome human weaknesses such as bias has also fallen short.
The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values – not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses – that will enable it to correct its forebears’ mistakes.
The world has been amply warned about Blix's weaknesses because he has a track record of compounded failure.
The Bush administration probably understands Blix's weaknesses.
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