U.S. and European companies scrambled to do business in Iran.

The sooner Germany fulfills its side of the bargain, the better it will be for everyone.

If the IPCC did not already exist, governments would be quick to create it.

To be sure, Estimé had hastened his own demise in several ways.

And if anyone dared poke fun of us, our media and channels would immediately cut relations with them. How strange!

Desperate to save their lives, families voluntarily smashed their properties and pulped their ancient paintings and calligraphy.

During the second half of the 20th century, department stores followed the trend of moving into the suburbs.

Public institutions were rapidly modernized, political democracy adopted, and a standard market economy created.

Indeed, Russia s government, unexpectedly, has taken resolute and mostly correct economic decisions.

Soon afterwards, many friends and I formed the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba.

So governments bailed out banks and economies, producing a sovereign debt crisis.

Spain quickly hastened to the negotiating table which took place in a small town named Tordesillas.

But he should have. The opposition quickly attacked the move as a dangerous gimmick and a smokescreen.

Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two thirds, it would have been able to shed its crushing debt overhang.

In the days that followed, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) took swift action to confirm Salva Kiir as its new Chairman.

She then quickly proceeded to give a long celebratory speech about the heroism of US soldiers fighting for freedom abroad.

There, too, governments widely guaranteed private sector debt, and then proceeded to default on it.

When banks stopped providing short term liquidity to other banks and industrial companies, central banks filled the gap.

In response to the crisis of 2007 2009, governments in most industrialized countries put in place some of the most generous bailouts ever seen for large financial institutions.

One of the accused groups was the Ansar al Shariah Brigade, which was quick to support the demolition, but denied any responsibility for it.

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Russia quickly extended a helping hand to the Americans.

Japan s new activism also was widely imitated. South Korea and then Brazil started similar action to drive down their currency.

But the US and its allies quickly rejected the agreement as an Iranian ploy designed to halt the growing momentum for additional sanctions.

Following the European Council meeting in June, France and Germany jointly outlined a number of possible reforms.

The vacuum that the PA left elsewhere, including the social sphere, was filled by Hamas.

Bernanke s research also stressed that the sooner a country abandoned the gold standard, the better off it was.

By acting together, the EU can protect those member states that are more reliant on and vulnerable to Russia. This has not happened in the past because EU governments have all scrambled to protect their own interests at the expense of the common good.

At the same time, with boatloads of migrants arriving from Tunisia, some rather drastic measures have been adopted.

Fear of shuttered factories and lost wages pushed China s government last year to launch a massive stimulus program to protect jobs and restore growth.

Hungary played a special role in the collapse of Communism, accelerating the process by opening its borders for East German refugees.

Indeed, China has blithely entered into business with African countries that Europe and America refuse to engage with, owing to sanctions.

The United States, for example, created a unified national market once its federal government wrested sufficient political control from individual states.

HELSINKI One early result of today s global recession is that many donor governments are trimming their foreign aid programs.

In today s credit crunch, as in the Great Depression, central banks lend at practically zero interest rates.

The state, which is seeking to rescue the domestic automobile industry, allocated to the firm more credits through state owned banks.

After one recent disaster, in which more than 100 civilians died, the Pentagon immediately insisted that such bombing operations would continue.

Realizing that economics cannot be neatly separated from politics, APEC soon began to include security issues in its agenda.

In contrast to old leftist slogans against repaying foreign debt, Lula s government has hurried to settle all of its IMF obligations in advance.

After the AKP was elected in 2003, the Supreme Court dissolved it in order to prevent Recep Tayyip Erdogan from becoming Prime Minister.

These early signs of deglobalization of financial markets have their parallels in commercial banking, with some of the biggest global institutions retrenching rapidly.

Since then, it has participated in UN and NATO peace missions, and it has settled its borders with all its neighbors.

Once the Shah left, the radical minority that was willing to fight and die for its cause devoured the moderate majority, establishing Islamist rule in short order.

Some argue that the World Cup is only a step towards a much greater development plan for Qatar for which multinational companies such as Siemens have been quick to sign up.

In this second random process the DNA will be scrambled in a way that pieces are omitted (deletion), added (duplication), moved from one place to another (translocation) and inverted (inversion).

The sooner a pilot locates and inspects a potential landing site, the less the chance of additional limitations being imposed by worsening aircraft conditions, deteriorating weather, or other factors.