The Global Economy s Inevitable Hard Landing

I yield to the inevitable.

Those who desire war have chosen tragic future.

That is a shame, but it need not be Africa's fate.

Many claimed that the Kremlin was delaying the inevitable but ultimately would not block independence.

But it has a terrible catch, and the catch is that this system is destined to collapse.

The shell of what remains continues to challenge the company s fate, notably in a Houston, Texas courtroom.

43. It is, however, inevitable that many of the ideas that may be forthcoming may not be technically and economically viable.

Location, proximity to settlements, and perhaps even fate made the Alamo a crossroads for siege and battle.

China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

The listing of those great topics is but an imperfect summary of the fate and the enormous poverty that is the lot of a large portion of mankind.

South Korea and Japan need to have their views taken into serious account if this now inevitable withdrawal is to succeed.

quot Foolish is the one who sacks a city, making a desert of temples, pillaging the tombs, the sanctuaries of the dead for he prepares his own doom in times to come. quot

Yet as Battle of Baghdad begins, factors beyond Bush s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.

We have to invest in transformations capability, moving from crisis into innovation and the ability to rise after a crisis, and of course to adapt to unavoidable change.

Such a strategic reconsideration is probably most necessary for those in the Bush administration (and a few elsewhere), who until recently have been prophets of imminent danger.

It is possible to see in Chavez but another Latin American populist sorcerer's apprentice, one whose political shelf life will expire whenever oil prices begin their inevitable shift backward.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next. By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

Perhaps all that I have mentioned has not been inevitable, but evidently geostrategic and ecological factors must have played a major part in those developments.

For all the denial of climate change by government leaders, the CIA and the navies of Norway and the U.S. and Canada, whatever are busily thinking about how they will secure their territory in this inevitability from their point of view.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy. China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

Nothing but the thinnest membrane of denial separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non scientific dream of escaping one s own inevitable death.

The Meeting noted that, at the same time, it was important to keep in mind that rural and urban development were two sides of the same coin and that strategies that emphasized one at the expense of the other were doomed to failure.

It is not the innocent victims of repression who are losing their dignity, but rather the international community, whose failure to act means watching helplessly as the victims are consigned to their fate.

Much now depends on whether the same is true of the other major outcome, which is that Yukos s principal asset Yuganskneftegaz is now in state hands, while its remaining units appear doomed to nationalization.

The arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.

Most commentators appear to think that Bush s latest prescription a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.

Coordination among local, national, regional and international response teams is essential, as the inevitable convergence of multiple response actors can complicate, rather than strengthen, the overall recovery effort if field coordination structures are weak and roles and responsibilities are not clearly defined from the outset.

The poor man, on the other hand, understands only that his crops wither in the barren lands his wife knows that she walks up to a dozen kilometres daily to collect a few potfuls of water and their children know, with harsh inevitability, that they will go to bed hungry once again.