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The Australian defense authorities now coordinating the search still say that to discover wreckage probably lying 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) deep, on so remote a seabed, will be like “finding a needle in a haystack.”
But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
Like a passerby staring at the wreckage of a road accident, I watched the fall of Saigon on television in Connecticut with my new family.
And the way West Germany rolled over the wreckage of its East German neighbor seemed almost like an act of cruelty.
Indeed, those links were central to the arguments advanced by economists like Simons, Fisher, and Friedman, who, surveying the wreckage produced by excessive credit creation in the 1920’s, proposed both OMF of fiscal deficits and a system of 100% reserve banking.
And it speaks volumes to the changing world that, as panic recedes and the wreckage is revealed, Asia in general and China in particular are emerging as clear winners.
When future generations of historians sift through the wreckage left behind by the Trump administration, they will probably pay special attention to the breakdown of longstanding US policy toward China.
Officials would liquidate the low-return investments that form the legacy of the late-1980s asset-price bubble and then clear away the wreckage left behind in the financial system.
Fundamental principles of pan-European security are part of the wreckage, and so may be the progress in relations between Russia and the West made since the Cold War’s end.
Indeed, for everyone in the former communist world who sought to build a free society out of the wreckage of totalitarianism, the “Iron Lady” became a secular icon.
As we sift the debris of the war to liberate Iraq, it will be important to preserve-the better to understand-the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of security through international law administered by international institutions.
In the meantime, progressive federalists in forward-looking states and cities must get to work picking up the pieces of the wreckage the federal government is leaving in its wake.
Post-Soviet Free TradeEver since the Soviet Union collapsed, the independent states that emerged from the wreckage have tried to sort out their trade relations.
The governments that emerged from the Arab Spring’s wreckage inherited a broken system of closed deals.
Indeed, the only way truly to honor those who lost their lives is to create a new-model Japan from the tsunami’s wreckage, rather than simply restoring towns and their economies to their previous decadent conditions.
Diplomats and policy analysts are generally agreed that key elements of the failed constitution will be rescued from the wreckage and turned into something along the lines of the “mini-treaty” that Nicolas Sarkozy, the front-runner in the French presidential race, proposed last autumn at a Friends of Europe meeting in Brussels.
There is one silver lining as we contemplate our macroeconomic wreckage: when incomes, production, and employment in the US return to their trend levels, Americans will demand an extra $1.7 trillion worth of buildings to live in.
It was too late to rescue those who had been clinging to the wreckage.
Exhausted ItalyItaly is facing perhaps its most important elections since 1948, when voters confirmed the emergence of Italy’s new republic from the wreckage of Mussolini’s fascist regime.
Analytically, we are still picking through the wreckage of this experiment.
The wreckage of its economy is due to decades of managerial and political absurdities and to the dreadful plight of two World Wars, a Civil War and a Cold War, not to a lack of resources.
From the wreckage that has inevitably followed, a succession of new economies has emerged.
(It has even revived efforts to find the wreckage of Franklin’s lost ships.)
In the Philippines, countless widows struggle in the wreckage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent drug war to support the children left behind.
Born from the wreckage of World War II – a wholly human-made calamity – the world’s premier international forum embodied post-war leaders’ determination that future generations must be spared from the kind of suffering they had witnessed.
The world needs to grasp the full scale of the wreckage and the challenge of reconstruction.
The wreckage in advanced economies is bad enough: the UK is facing its worst recession since 1706, and 36 million Americans have claimed unemployment compensation since March.
Had it run afoul of an underwater rock or the wreckage of some enormous derelict ship?
Also discredited was the idea of a floating hull or some other enormous wreckage, and again because of this speed of movement.
And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:"Commander La Pérouse set out on December 7, 1785, with his ships, the Compass and the Astrolabe.
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