Sentences with phrase «peace dividend»

President Clinton managed to avoid this effect for a large part of his administration — since the tax hikes he imposed were modest and he benefited by an enormous peace dividend from the fall of the Soviet Union.

Call it the «oil peace dividend.»

Proponents of increased public spending refer repeatedly to our «starved public sector,» and they look to the potential peace dividend as an opportunity to return to liberal social programs fallen on lean days because of budget restrictions and the conservative social philosophy of the Reagan and Bush administrations.

A plausible case can be made that much of the current disarray and uncertainty in our politics — including the politics of the anticipated peace dividend — stems from the crisis of the progressive paradigm.

«Whether or not we can ultimately realize the ultimate peace dividend, that has yet to be determined.»

That's a remarkable peace dividend.

However, the average Boomer most definitely hasn't enjoyed the same peace dividend.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

As I told Liz, this has served as a multibillion - dollar «peace dividend» that has mostly helped net importing markets, including «Chindia» — China and India combined, where 40 percent of the world's population lives — Japan and the European Union.

We have heard already considerable discussion of a 1990s «peace dividend,» a diversion of spending from military needs to social concerns made possible by the radical diminution of the Soviet threat.

A useful step in that direction would be to conduct our political dialogue concerning the peace dividend in conscious disregard of the paradigm's preconceptions.

With the end of the cold war and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact there was a general expectation of a «peace dividend»: Finally, some of the enormous funds previously needed for the vast army could be redirected to more productive ends.

Meanwhile, many Colombians in underdeveloped border regions await a «peace dividend» amid continued violence.

What happened to the peace dividend we were expecting when the Soviet Union collapsed?

«To a number of Nato allies, it no longer feels completely credible to go on taking the peace dividend,» the Foreign Office source added.

It must be noted that it was the Tories who first started cutting our regular and reserve forces as they sought to cut government spending under the overly optimistic guise of the peace dividend.

The script has changed — then it was the «peace dividend» after the Cold War, now it is the deficit — but from the Army's point of view, they could be forgiven for thinking history is repeating itself.

It was expected that the peace dividend from the break up of the former Soviet block would enable this to happen but two things stopped it.

California refused to enlist in the teacher wars, and it's betting on a peace dividend.

By Charles Taylor Kerchner California refused to enlist in the teacher wars, and it's betting on a peace dividend.

Well, Reagan had the luxury of running the largest peacetime deficits we have seen, but at least it eventually bore the fruit of the «peace dividend,» that Clinton got to harvest.

A big part of the peace dividend from the fall of the Soviet Union was a bunch of weapons grade uranium was diluted and sold for power plants.

But, market conditions changing isn't new, but it probably wasn't planned for... remember the peace dividend?

Over the past decade we've lived comfortably off the peace dividend created by the fall of the Soviet Union.