Worldly forces made the current crisis possible: Stagnating G.D.P., rising joblessness, and runaway inflation.
The error had -- erroneously -- made the current test appear easier than the previous year's.
But as described, it wouldn't end the skewed incentives that made the current crisis inevitable.
But the spread of capitalist values is what made the current string of nuclear provocations inevitable.
A growing number of observers believe that the I.M.F. has actually made the current crisis worse.
Consequently, officials announced with pride today that they had even made the current payroll on time.
This made the current La Liga champions the world's best paid team by average salary.
What has changed, Mr. Paletz said, is that the Internet has made the current dispute instantly public.
Two provisions dropped in the early 1980's clearly would have made the current episode easier for consumers.
That would have made the current timetable, which calls for an election in April, nearly impossible to meet.
What about Senator Phil Gramm, who brayed about wanting to be "perzident" and made the current president's dialect sound like Peter O'Toole's?
