Word: deficits
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Europe's less profligate members are realizing, the problem with family is that a good name can be tarnished by a single member's bad behavior. Concern over Greece's public deficit - which now exceeds 12.7% of GDP, well over the E.U. limit of 3% - has sent the euro tumbling and caused stock markets across the continent to fall. And with the finances of eurozone countries now under a market microscope, questions are now being asked about Spain and Portugal, which are also battling high deficits. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Although polls show that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou still has broad support for his economic plans, with about 65% of Greeks agreeing that painful measures are necessary to slash the deficit, many of the street protesters said they did not believe the government claims that it had run out of money. Others argued that it was the rich who should pay. "It's a crisis caused by the capitalist system," said Sissy Vovou, a 60-year-old pensioner. "Those who should pay are the capitalists, not the working classes...
...they ride in the car, searching for a lone hunched figure as he limps on. Becka, who was at first suspicious of the reality of her father’s illness, finds a renewed sense of compassion for her his struggles: “She felt the deep deficit of not being omniscient and the insecurity of human limitations that a time of crisis lays bare. They’d never find him. They had already passed him. He was standing in front of them mile after mile but they were too blind and frantic...
After Matera hit a three-pointer with 15 minutes to play, freshman Elle Hagadorn also scored a trey of her own to deepen the Quakers’ deficit. Penn was never able to get the margin under 20 points after that point. Berry didn’t help the Quakers’ cause by sinking another three with 14 minutes left in the half...
...Yale’s speed deficit caused it to resort to other means—holding and hooking—and it was these compensation efforts that...