The need to respect other cultures has been cited as justification for this semantic shift.

The second story, also to illustrate another concept, is called shifting waistline.

Neglect of the private sector has left Europe in a sad quandary.

The typical flight pattern is a series of flaps followed by a short glide.

The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell pull.

Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Stop and go aid has left Haiti in an unmitigated downward spiral.

But how long is this likely to last with the US falling into a deep slump?

Alas, it took another world war to convince European leaders of the validity of Keynes s approach.

Holmes rushed at the bell pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter.

Holmes rushed at the bell pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter.

Draghi reversed the euro s slide into oblivion by promising potentially unlimited purchases of member governments bonds.

The ideologically driven strategy of regime change by means of military force led the US into the Iraq war disaster.

But the US cannot withdraw without sending the entire region into chaos.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s disabling stroke has thrown Israeli politics into turmoil yet again.

NEW YORK The probability is growing that the global economy not just the United States will experience a serious recession.

Based on the above, it is possible to recognize most causes of descent into extreme poverty for families and population in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The gradual slippage 'slippage' is the word used by the people in Watergate, moral slippage it's a gradual kind of thing, combination of things.

Unless something is done, the crisis will throw as many as 200 million additional people into poverty.

To be sure, this is a dangerous product, and it did cause many families to fall into an unsustainable debt trap.

With Europe mired in crisis, capital flows from Tunisia s resource rich Arab neighbors are its best hope.

Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.

CAMBRIDGE As the world economy tumbles off the edge of a precipice, critics of the economics profession are raising questions about its complicity in the current crisis.

Defiance of the Supreme Leader by millions of Iranians just a day after he firmly endorsed Ahmadinejad threw the country into a political crisis.

And the Greek government faces an endless succession of budget cuts, with each step being more difficult than the last as the economy spirals down a black hole.

These feelings, it appears, are directly related to the violence gripping Iraq, and the role of foreigners in the country s perilous security situation.

The threat of irrelevance is understood by leading statesmen, who have committed themselves to putting their shoulders to the wheel.

As a result, investors are worried that China could slip into the excess leverage growth model that has served many developed economies so poorly.

The main protagonist s step by step descent into the drug underworld unfolds with such subtlety that each individual decision he makes along the way seems almost reasonable.

I lost the slip that I made the notes on and I couldn't remember whether there was turnips or carrots, so I got both.

The first is that stimulus packages around the world arrested the slide into depression, and may have started a modest recovery.

Shorn of support from economists, the financial industry will have a much harder time preventing the fetish of free finance from being tossed into the dustbin of history.

So far, the European Union and the United States have reacted to Turkey s descent into authoritarianism with little more than vague statements of concern.

When Aristide came to power in 2001, the Bush administration cut off most international aid, thereby helping to send the economy into a freefall.

As his governance descended into authoritarianism, the military and at least a visible part of the population came to view a coup as the only way to stop Niger s downward course.

It is our sincere hope that recent events in the region will be remembered as a new start on the road towards peace, rather than as a slide back into conflict and violent confrontation.

Indeed, should stagflation emerge, there is a serious risk of a double dip recession for a global economy that has barely emerged from its worst crisis in decades.

As chaos and confusion set in, we should not lose sight of President Pervez Musharraf s partial responsibility for this turn of events.

It would be useful in preventing countries from slipping back into conflict and strengthening the institutions that promote stability in countries that are currently not experiencing conflicts.

We particularly endorse the proposal for a peacebuilding commission to address the need for sustained action to prevent countries emerging from war from lapsing back into violence.

Lower the interest rate too much, and inflation and monetary instability result. Raise it too much, and the economy slides into recession and unemployment.

With their neighbors embroiled in internal conflict or in the midst of difficult transitions, and with discontent rising at home, the Gulf states are eager to stem the tide of revolution.

After 1991, Boris Yeltsin s unruly privatization reduced millions of people to penury, and elevated a corrupt oligarchy into virtual rulership.

More broadly, given Europe s slide into recession and only a slow rise in world trade volume, renewed growth and stronger import demand in Japan would support global recovery.

Another recession in the US would not be a great surprise, but it can be attributed to an array of bad government policies and other forces, not to cutting the size of government.