England lurched in a statist direction postwar that made it a less attractive destination for investment.
In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
The period detail of this still-grim postwar era has a power all its own.
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Real output shrank by 3.7%, the deepest decline of any postwar recession (a record shared with the downturn of 1957).
Woolsey has been named in news reports as a possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction of a postwar Iraq.
In the good ole days, post-World War II, stocks yielded more than bonds as professional investors awaited a postwar recession in their crash helmets.
The ensuing chases and reversals permit Alton and the director, Anthony Mann, to etch postwar California in a vivid pulp chiaroscuro the action is lit by flame and shrouded in fog.
First, by ignoring the real interests of the US and its allies in favor of utopian peace, Wilson's vision of postwar peace was a flight of fancy predicated on a rejection of reality.
Germany's domestic intelligence service, a postwar creation known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or Verfassungsschutz, is broadly comparable to the intelligence wing of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This nonprofit, whose work originated in a postwar federal program, is now overseen by architects, builders and clinicians who created the children's hospital guidelines as part of an update of general hospital guidelines from 2010.
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And despite all this, a yen touching postwar highs, making it hard for even the most efficient manufacturers to earn a profit on export goods.
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In any event, the postwar plans went through a rigorous inter-agency process.
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Nobody expects a roaring postwar economic boom anytime soon.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
The World Bank was established in 1944, at a conference on postwar reconstruction in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where representatives of more than forty nations agreed to create two new institutions: the International Monetary Fund, which was charged with guaranteeing stability in global currency markets, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was charged with raising money for the rebuilding of Europe.
Looking for reinforcements, Powell was in Europe last week, feeling out allies to see if they might lend a hand with the postwar mess.
The original postwar Social Compact was sustained by a combination of economic growth, union bargaining power, government policies and enforcement, and organizational practices that reinforced wage norms based on productivity.
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Reich arrived in New York City in 1939, exactly thirty years after Freud first visited Manhattan, and, in the postwar era, his assertion that a vibrant sexuality was a precondition for a vibrant democracy gained momentum.
His idea was to use the devastation of postwar Berlin as the setting for a period piece involving murder, political intrigue, moral ambiguity and romance -- a film noir in the tradition of "Casablanca" or "The Third Man" -- and then to shoot it, with contemporary actors, in the visual and dramatic style of the period.
The site was the old Hong Kong Hilton, a business hub in the postwar territory.
In the postwar decades, scientists working there pioneered a stunning list of breakthroughs, from advances in high-speed photography to the development of the physics behind microwaves.
In the weeks before the invasion of Iraq the U.S. Agency for International Development told Bechtel National, a unit that handles government work, to expect a sensitive package of information about postwar reconstruction.
The postwar world, he notes, has given us a whole field of sincerity studies.
More important in terms of actual building, the glass boxes were economical compared to Beaux Arts marble, a crucial consideration in the period of postwar inflation.
Americans have a strong impulse for course corrections and a sense that their greatness could be lost, but let's say for argument's sake that the U.S. is a declining superpower along the lines of postwar Britain.
But, as illuminated in a book, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan(2008), by Syracuse University professor Margarita Estevez-Abe, just looking at spending misses the arguably larger importance of a vast array of subsidy programs and policies that protect and cushion workers and citizens from market forces and limit competition.
Upheaval in the early 1970s ended the first dollar order (really a gold-dollar order) of the postwar era.
In it he asked Bush to propose a mechanism that would employ, in the postwar years, armies of scientists in federally funded laboratories or university research projects.
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