American oil production peaked, and entered a permanent decline.

Blood flow is slowly retarded a week later the parts in question fall off.

We've all made a mistake, myself included, by focusing down, by being a reductionist.

Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.

World peace, which appears to have come closer as bipolarity has receded, must not remain an unfulfilled vision.

35. The structural deficit problem confronting UNRWA portended an almost certain decline in the living conditions of Palestine refugees and therefore held possible consequences for the peace process as well.

9. In a period marked by a decline in production, disruption of economic links and inadequate legislation, corruption and money laundering affected all sectors of the economy.

The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.

The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.

We must have no illusions let there be no mistake about the serious consequences of failure in September the impetus to attain the Millennium Development Goals would be greatly weakened, and the credibility of our Organization would be damaged.

While trade was critical to growth, a number of other factors, both internal and external, must be addressed, including the level of ODA, especially in a climate of generally decreasing external finance to developing countries.

Indeed, large scale displacement of people and unspeakable human suffering are occurring in many African countries (not to mention in Syria and elsewhere), threatening to reverse the continent s unprecedented economic progress during the last decade.

This was not an issue in the disinflationary environment of the last decade, but it is becoming more of one, which is probably what prompted World Bank President Robert Zoellick s proposal to restore a role for gold.