It is also possible that the assassination of selected individuals has slowed the advance of Iranian nuclear efforts.

Thus, green policies will paradoxically accelerate rather than mitigate global warming.

That, plus the gloomy international outlook and a fiscal policy that will have to become less expansionary after the election, will slow the economy down.

The increased indebtedness of households is already leading to higher bankruptcy rates, and will likely dampen the recovery.

Chinese officials have said that the crisis that began in the United States will not slow down long planned reforms in China s financial markets.

Sometimes pendulums continue to oscillate wildly unless there is some friction to slow them down, and sometimes they get stuck.

The couple worries the pushback will slow their other relatives, including a brother and nephew, hoping to come to the United States next.

Indeed, refusal to support Georgia s struggling democracy would most likely postpone democratic progress in Ukraine, Belarus, even in Russia itself.

When I was writing my first novel, The Age Of Miracles, I spent months trying to figure out what would happen if the rotation of the Earth suddenly began to slow down.

If and when America's economy slows, and when the valuations of US assets become far more dubious, the euro will become an attractive investment.

The ongoing financial crisis will almost surely slow the integration of the accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe, whose young populations are the single most dynamic source of growth in Europe today.

So, do such practices constitute a real threat to the conventions for protecting the stratospheric ozone, or are they only a factor that will delay the final phase out of CFC s within years or a decade?

First, consumers, faced with tighter credit and falling house values, will need to cut spending, slowing the US economy and affecting all countries via world trade.

To protect European cohesion as well as improve their own economic situation, France and Italy must reform at a faster pace than Germany rather than just waiting for Germany to slow down.

With that support, developing countries in turn will need to design and implement Low Carbon Growth Plans that significantly slow and eventually peak their emissions growth.

Second, while a military strike would slow Iran s nuclear program, facilities could be rebuilt in the absence of inspectors to find and destroy remnants, regime change, and or military occupation.

Most people agree with the new focus of American foreign policy, but debate the means by which it is carried out. Is the threat so great that America must act alone, or should the US act only with the support of international institutions, even if that holds the country back?

Depending on how rapidly and deeply such a swing occurs, America could merely slow down (the so called soft landing ), or fall into recession (the increasingly feared hard landing ).

Is the threat so great that America must act alone, or should the US act only with the support of international institutions, even if that holds the country back?

And, while depressed economic activity may slow somewhat the rate of greenhouse gas build up in the atmosphere, it will also slow the types of costly programs that governments must enact to address emissions that have already occurred.

The resulting austerity will hinder Europe s growth, and thus that of its most distressed economies after all, nothing would help Greece more than robust growth in its trading partners.

Tidak hanya masyarakatnya akan menjadi tua dengan cepat semakin berkurangnya kesenjangan pendapatan antara negara negara maju dengan negara negara berkembang menciptakan kemungkinan menurunnya aliran perpindahan penduduk, menyusutkan jumlah tenaga kerja sebesar 20 di eurozone dan 15 di Amerika Serikat.