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As long as zombie banks are weighed down with bad loans, that is unlikely to change much.
South Korea’s economy grew at a mere 0.4% in the same period – the slowest pace in two years – while Japan’s GDP contracted at a larger-than-expected 2.3%, as the yen’s strength weighed down exports.
The US Institute of Medicine weighed in on the issue in a 2007 report: “Given the strong evidence of its effectiveness in treating opioid dependence, opioid agonist maintenance treatment should be made widely available where feasible.”
As a result, ethnicity began to be weighed as a positive factor not only in university admissions, but also in public procurement decisions, credit facilities for small enterprises, and government hiring.
The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades, the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and now faces an uphill battle for ratification, as all the leading Democratic presidential candidates and many of the Republicans have weighed in against it.
But there are other less quantifiable considerations that must also be weighed in the balance.
Brazil is weighed down by costly consumer credit and real-wage gains that have been outpacing productivity growth.
Without a legitimate president -- and by cancelling the elections, Yeltsin would certainly risk forfeiting claims to legitimacy -- any successor (a prospect that must be weighed, given the president's suspect health) would be even less legitimate.
The financial implications of ensuring universal energy access are large, but not overwhelming when weighed against the enormous benefits.
When these factors are weighed against the benefits in monetary terms, each dollar spent ending extreme poverty with cash transfers would achieve about $5 worth of social value.
Her three American children all weighed in simultaneously, pointing out that in soccer it is the US that is the underdog.
We do no such thing, because we recognize that the costs of high-speed cars must be weighed against the benefits of a mobile society.
The benefits of fossil fuels must be weighed against the costs of global warming.
Households in the United States, having spent too much, are now weighed down by debt.
When Nobel Laureate economists weighed up how to achieve the most good for the world in a recent project called the Copenhagen Consensus, they found that focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and trade barriers should all be tackled long before we commit to any dramatic action on climate change.
And everywhere I look, men, women, and children – despite being weighed down by their daily loads, carrying food and firewood – are taking small steps to improve their lives.
But he weighed 380 pounds (173 kilograms), and it would have been extremely difficult to carry him down the stairs and then up again to where the helicopters were landing.
In December, the Republican minority on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), weighed in with a preemptive dissenting narrative.
But the amounts had to be cut to the size of the transaction and weighed out with balance scales.
When it comes to Central Europe, there is another factor impeding the willingness to accept refugees: the region is not weighed down by the burden of imperial guilt.
International organizations and non-governmental agencies such as the UNHCR and the International Rescue Committee, and religious leaders such as Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, have weighed in as well.
Of course, there are plenty of things that need fixing in the EU, and Britain’s membership cannot be weighed only in terms of pounds and pence.
The completion of a US-EU trade agreement would reenergize a transatlantic relationship that has been weighed down by the eurozone crisis and is at risk of becoming strategically irrelevant.
While this is a global phenomenon, the European Central Bank is exceptionally weighed down.
And now the Bank of England (BoE) has weighed in clearly on the third.
Moreover, the SCAF has carefully weighed the politicians and dissected their relative weakness, limited capacity, notorious opportunism, and general inconsistency.
Consider the British jailer Daniel Lambert (1770-1809), who stood 5’1” (155 centimeters) tall and weighed 739 lbs (335 kilos), yet neither drank nor ate “more than one dish at a meal.”
The weaker countries enjoyed real-estate, consumption, and investment booms, while Germany, weighed down by the fiscal burden of reunification, had to adopt austerity and implement structural reforms.
Otherwise, it will continue to be weighed down by its region.
The Fish that ShrankA thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms.
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