Surviving disasters requires contingency plans, and so does avoiding them in first places.
Cutting new ties would be far more awkward, and far more insulting to Russia, than avoiding them in the first place.EU members differ widely in their attitudes towards Russia.
The question is whether or not liberal policymakers who have the best recipe for getting out of recessions can convince voters that they've learned a lesson about also avoiding them in the future.
On that issue, as on others, he has begun making a case that the economically prudent course is to invest now in addressing the nation's big challenges rather than avoiding them in the name of saving money in the short run.
Some blogs have already lost these characteristics and, more distressingly, many blogs are avoiding them in fear of losing access to press events.
Refusing to work with whistleblowers is a severe form of retaliation, whether it takes the form of avoiding them in the workplace, or refusing to consider hiring them once they have left the workplace.
