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A Nation KidnappedThe editorial published in the Colombian newspaper Diario del Sur on July 6 (“A Slap in the Face of Violence”) was ecstatic: “Never before, in spite of the violence that has oppressed us during so many years, has Colombia lived a day like yesterday: historic and unforgettable in every aspect.”
Indeed, on February 10, 2004, he woke up to an unpleasant news story in the Washington Post: ”President Bush’s top economist yesterday said the outsourcing of US service jobs to workers overseas is good for the nation’s economy....Mankiw’s comments come as the president struggles to shore up support in manufacturing states that have lost millions of jobs....Mankiw’s conclusions may prove discordant during an election year...”It happened again on February 11: “Democrats...lit into President Bush’s chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad....Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
Yesterday, there were flurries of snow in Istanbul.
At the same time, it would be as dangerous to overestimate the Islamic State’s capabilities today as it was to underestimate them yesterday.
Basques, Catalans, Walloons, Scots, Bretons, etc. are no less regionalist today than yesterday.
Today, as yesterday, the first step towards Serbia’s European integration is full cooperation with the ICTY.
But if Iran’s hardliners were frustrated by previous negotiations, their disappointment vanished yesterday.
Many neo-cons emerged from a leftist past, in which a belief in revolution from above was commonplace: “people’s democracies” yesterday, “liberal democracies” today.
FRANKFURT – Konrad Adenauer, Germany’s first chancellor after World War II, famously said: “Why should I care about the things I said yesterday?”
In an era where yesterday has become almost irrelevant and we can hardly predict tomorrow, the role of education must allow all children to reach their highest potential.
That was yesterday.
A majority of Israelis are even more convinced today than they were yesterday that they can count only on themselves and, at the margin, on the Jewish Diaspora.
Like Father, Like SonLONDON – “The enemy of yesterday is the friend of today....[I]t was a real war, but those brothers are free men now.”
As Oxford University economist Max Roser points out, newspapers could have published the headline, “People in extreme poverty fell by 137,000 since yesterday,” every day for the past 25 years.
First, history teaches you about today as well as yesterday.
The dogged determination to make tomorrow better than yesterday is humbling.
But this trust was not undermined only yesterday; it happened long before.
The US factory worker of yesterday owed his standard of living to these rents.
But today's responses to China's economic challenge may be as misbegotten as yesterday's answers to le défi Americain .
By contrast, cryptocurrencies work only if everyone (within that crypto system) agrees on who held a unit of value yesterday and to whom it was transferred today.
Yesterday, when America sneezed, the world caught a cold.
Evolution - whether of microbes or humans - involves pushing at the margins, going a little bit further than yesterday or last year, driven by the need to find additional sources of food.
In America, many efficient new firms (mini-mills) were indeed created, but yesterday's lumbering giants stood still.
Yesterday was not as good as we remember it.
In their denunciation of “Soviet electoral practices,” they reject the combination of despotism and corruption that characterized Soviet power yesterday and Russian power today – rhetoric familiar from Arab revolutionaries.
A lesson emerges: with the deepening of the economic crisis, on the one hand, and instant global connectivity, on the other, what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today.
China today is increasingly becoming for Europe what the United States was yesterday – a mirror reflecting our weaknesses and our strengths.
Restoring Yesterday's Hope for Tomorrow's WorldWASHINGTON, DC – The year 2015 was difficult, punctuated by declining growth forecasts, horrific terror attacks, massive refugee flows, and serious political challenges, with populism on the rise in many countries.
In his autobiography The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig described a similarly drastic change.
The rule of law is the equivalent for Asia today of what democracy was for Europe yesterday.
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