The last surplus was in 1974.

Its economic growth has been and is truly astounding.

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The Secretary General We meet at the end of a historic week for the United Nations.

Such thinking may be playing a part in the recent rebound of home prices.

I had been unaware, he thought, of some extenuating factors for the destruction I witnessed.

America s recent growth was neither economically sustainable nor inclusive.

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The bloodbath in Newtown is the time to stop feeding this gun frenzy.

The explosion of derivative instruments has demanded such an effort at understanding that metaphorical language is needed.

With respect to Darfur, we welcome a certain stabilization of the situation, including the military situation.

But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.

What turned the country around, he claims, was labor market liberalization and restrained public spending.

They were responsible to a great extent for Britain s economic decline in the 1960 s and 1970 s.

I must say that I was impressed by the progress I saw regarding the attitudes of the provisional leadership of Kosovo.

The recent market rallies in stocks, commodities, and credit may have gotten ahead of the improvement in the real economy.

The sharp drop in household wealth over the past two years, however, put an end to that.

America s postwar growth and dynamism largely resulted from skilled immigrants.

But none of these proved a serious obstacle to China s long boom.

By contrast, Bangladesh has not experienced anything like India s acceleration in economic growth.

Last, but not least, the US productivity boom is decelerating.

Even before the current crisis, Latin America s recent left turn in politics was tied to the food problem.

The EU accession process has also underpinned a shift in Turkish policy on Iraq.

Finally, although considerably increased, municipal engagement in activities related to returns remains variable.

But the recent prosperity of many of these countries has come from access to global capital.

That is the lesson from the violence in the Caucasus that Europe must urgently take to heart.

Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year.

Brazil s boom of the past few years stood on an incredibly weak foundation.

Turkey s existing Constitution was adopted in 1982 as a direct product of the Turkish military coup in 1980.

Details about the Mumbai outrage, where terrorists killed over 100 people, are still unfolding.

Take away US imports and the timid growth Europe has seen in the past year would immediately disappear.

After two years of rate increases, Australia's home price boom only recently shows signs of abating.

Despite the turbulent year Yemen experienced in 2012, a group of Yemenis worked very hard to end the year on a positive note.

Following the political changeover of 1974 in Greece, important advances have been achieved in the field of gender equality.

Most benefited from the economic growth and expanded educational opportunities associated with the oil boom of the 1970 s.

There is a real risk of renewed violence, though perhaps not on the scale of the 1990 s.

The new conservative cycle was triggered by the inflation of the 1970 s, which seemed to be a product of Keynesian policies.

But the behavior of consumer prices in the post 1980 crises is fundamentally different from that seen in the 1930 s.

In fact, Islamization has proved to be an effective political means of reconciling the majority of Malays to the country s rapid economic development.

The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country s rapid economic modernization.

The attempt by Congolese civil society to foster democratic development may be the best thing that has happened in the country in a long time.

Stock markets unusually negative skew is not inconsistent with booming price growth in recent years.

The term awash with liquidity was also used often in 1999 and 2000, just before the major peak in the stock market.

Instead of the productivity surge experienced in the US, it has gone through a sort of productivity holiday, with serious consequences.