If anxiety about the value of financial assets is such that gold - perceived as the last safe haven in the storm - is to soar by almost 50% in four months, heaven help us.
Ridge said officials have to look at the issue of whether such information, perceived as possibly harmful to security, should be made available to the public.
Then there are distinctly cultural issues, such as the perceived unwillingness of many East Asian men to share child-raising duties with their wives.
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Well, as I've been pointing out for some weeks the big threat to banks in eurozone countries perceived to be at some risk of leaving the currency union - such as Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy - is an outflow of deposits.
In the first five months of the year, Spain's banks lost 3% of their deposits as savers moved their cash to perceived safe havens, such as Germany, or spent their accumulated savings to make up for the collapse in their incomes.
As such, investors have flocked to the perceived safety of bonds, driving yields down and prices up.
The degree of regulation should be proportionate to the perceived risk of the new organism, which is a function of certain characteristics of the host plant, such as weediness, toxicity, ability to outcross, etc.
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The US president said that many doubts were expressed about the operation by those who knew about it, because of the greater perceived risks in comparison with other possible methods such as air strikes, but that he welcomed this openness.
Investors fled all financial assets such as equities and sought refuge in the perceived safety of U.S. Treasury bonds and gold.
The stringent rules are focused on strengthening balance sheets and reducing perceived financial sector excesses such as banker bonuses.
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"The Pennsylvania legislature could have rationally believed that some married women are initially inclined to obtain an abortion without their husbands' knowledge because of perceived problems -- such as economic constraints, future plans, or the husbands' previously expressed opposition -- that may be obviated by discussion prior to the abortion, " wrote Alito.
It would also bar same-sex marriage ceremonies on U.S. military bases and would require the installation of an East Coast missile defense system to help counter perceived threats from countries such as Iran and North Korea.
Countries perceived to offer better conditions to asylum seekers, such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, have been moving to reduce differences.
Women who aspire to leadership may have to "conveniently forget about some negatives, " such as the fact that "women who behave in a dominant fashion may be perceived as more masculine, " Dr. Keating says.
They will regard issues such as the conundrum of cross-border politics as mere sophistry, compared with those perceived certainties.
U.K allies such as Poland, Sweden and the Netherlands are wary of being identified with what is perceived to be British obstructionism.
The WEF surveys 90 different factors, including hard data such as gross domestic product and softer factors like perceived level of bribery and ethical behavior.
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