That has left the region's consumers with less cash to purchase products from Western companies, but there has also been a growing social cost threatening the stability of some governments.
Participation will come at a significant cost, threatening to further weaken the banks, with the Royal Bank of Scotland announcing a loss of 24 billion pounds, the biggest in British corporate history.
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From term papers purchased online to the ransacking of the mortgage-financing system, the increasingly pervasive ethos of success at any cost threatens the foundations of fairness and justice on which our commonwealth depends.
A film about a film that might have been, this documentary on hallucinatory maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky's abortive efforts to film Frank Herbert's science fiction story (later filmed by David Lynch at great personal cost) threatens to be the film about filmmaking must-see of the festival.
The concerns over cost threaten to derail a three-year effort, which is stumbling toward the finish line under the shadow of election-year politics.
Sovaldi, which was list-priced at $84,000 per 12-week treatment, helped set off the public uproar over drug prices; the pills were so effective as a cure of the virus that the cost threatened to bankrupt public health programs that felt bound to provide it to their hepatitis patients.
But in the middle of all this – with legal costs threatening to cripple their work – Anglicans in Zimbabwe have become vital contributors to sustaining and rebuilding the social fabric.
A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an economic forum of rich nations, called on the United States and other industrialized nations to eliminate subsidies for the production of ethanol which, the report said, is driving up food costs, threatening natural habitats and imposing other environmental costs.
"This funding could make a difference for the most vulnerable of our fellow citizens, who have faced a tough, cold and financially backbreaking winter, with energy costs threatening to swamp their family food and medicine budgets," Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said in a statement when the grant was announced on March 23.
He found that roughly a dozen elevators were losing money, with climbing costs threatening to increase this number.
