At the same time, there was a surge in demand for gold jewelry.

In such intra State conflicts, the proportion of civilian victims has increased drastically.

Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

The effects of fiscal austerity a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year are undermining economic performance even more.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

That's very bad news for local indigenous people who are reporting alarmingly high cancer rates.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

Unemployment was soaring, and austerity, rather than restoring fiscal balance, simply exacerbated the economic downturn.

Two hundred years of breathtaking innovation since the dawn of the industrial age have produced rising living standards for ordinary people in much of the world, with no sharply rising trend for unemployment.

The massive wall of liquidity that has resulted has triggered inflation, sent real estate prices soaring, and fueled a sharp rise in debt.

That, in turn, has fueled sharp exchange rate appreciation and a loss of international competitiveness unless the affected central banks intervene to buy dollars.

Some even carry their fights to the provincial and central authorities, stoking a sharp rise in the incidents of public order disturbances nation wide.

The end of the American housing bubble might not turn out badly. But if it does, it will probably be due to a sharp rise in interest rates.

Her right to buy policy triggered an upward spiral in house prices, which encouraged households to take on more and more debt.

Nicolas Sarkozy came to power with lots of talk of structural reforms he is now weakened even within his own party and lost regional elections to the left (the only case in Europe of a shift to the left in recent elections).

Yet the resources for reconstruction and economic transition are barely trickling in, public debt has skyrocketed and our significant social progress is at risk.

That pattern of rising prices and declining real earnings repeated itself in February and March, with a sharp rise in the consumer price index causing real average weekly earnings to decline at an annual rate of more than 5 .

Iran could also interfere with oil traffic, leading to a spike in prices and delivering a further blow to American and global economic recovery.

NEW YORK Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the 1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards 1,200 an ounce and above.

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Eventually, large monetized fiscal deficits will lead to a fiscal train wreck and or a rise in inflation expectations that could sharply increase long term government bond yields and crowd out a tentative and so far fragile economic recovery.

A poll in September 2010 by the International Peace Institute found that 71 percent of Iranians favored the development of nuclear weapons, a drastic hike over the previous polls by the same agency.

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But stock market declines that are not accompanied by steep and persistent collapses in earnings are by their nature temporary they are provoked by steep rises in perceived risk, and if those risks turn out to be overblown, stocks rebound when the perception of risk falls.

Gold prices started to rise sharply in the first half of 2008, when emerging markets were overheating, commodity prices were rising, and there was concern about rising inflation in high growth emerging markets.

Similarly, any financial institution that bets on a sharp rise in long term interest rates over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way also puts its survival at risk.

The new standards are compromises that are premised on the assumption that Europeans will continue to eat animal products and do not wish to see a sharp rise in the cost of their food.

Not surprisingly, farmers and tribal groups often felt exploited as savvy buyers purchased their land for a pittance and resold it for a fortune. And the compensation that poor farmers did receive did not go very far having sold their primary means of earning income, they then faced a steep rise in the local cost of living, owing to development.

The first is America s self imposed fiscal cliff, which, if not avoided, could throw the United States into recession, with massive repercussions for the world economy, and thus for Europe. Second, a hot war in the Persian Gulf, in which Israel and or the US confronts Iran over its nuclear program, would result in a sharp rise in global energy prices.

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Sami's health has sharply declined.

Imports of inexpensive Chinese products freed up capital and labor in the US for a dramatic expansion of the housing stock which led to a sharp rise in the American standard of living.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

In Japan, quantitative easing was the first arrow of Abenomics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s reform program. Its launch has sharply weakened the yen and is now leading to rising trade surpluses.

Similarly, any financial institution that bets on a sharp rise in long term interest rates over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way also puts its survival at risk. For where should they park their money?

At a United Nations summit in 2010, governments agreed that emissions should be reduced sharply in order to limit global warming to two degrees centigrade by the end of this century.

Direct talks also have some well known liabilities. Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

Even with its recent strengthening, the renminbi is within a balanced exchange rate band that is appropriate to its foreign trade balance still, China s economy could not bear sharp exchange rate appreciation.

PRINCETON In a provocative recent paper, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University concludes that the rate of technological progress has slowed sharply, and that the rise in standards of living (at least in the world s rich countries) is thus set to decelerate.

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The source further reports that Mr. Choi has serious health problems, including hypertension, diabetes and asthma. Additionally, in November 1999, he had diverticulectomy surgery after being diagnosed with acute diverticulitis.

National debt, too, has risen sharply.

Thereafter, the two camps interests and conclusions diverged sharply.

At the same time, the cost of living increased sharply.