The "poison," of course, drips from the fact that whichever prime minister officially files the divorce papers will most assuredly "own" the exit decision and all its consequences (which financial/currency markets in the UK and around the world are saying loud and clear ain't looking so good, given credit rating downgrades and housing price vulnerabilities).
Karl Kaiser, the director of the German Council on Foreign Relations and a Schröder adviser, said that the openness of democratic societies has been "bought at the price of vulnerability, vulnerability so high that you can conduct a war inside democracies".
Whether flirtation is driven by answering machines or apps is almost irrelevant to its core themes about the safety of loneliness and the price of vulnerability.
Americans, similarly, don't want to accept that 21st-century technological life has to come at the price of total vulnerability to surveillance, nor do they want American technology companies to maintain open global networks at the price of their own personal security.
Exorbitant public expenditures, the recurrence of government deficits even at times of record-high oil prices, the extreme vulnerability of foreign investments, exceedingly high import tariffs, and our increased domestic consumption of fuel at laughably low prices are all signs of what lurks on the horizon.
Socioeconomic factors, such as rising food prices, also deepen vulnerability.
The President has acknowledged that there is no cheap or quick way to change America's gasoline economy or to relieve drivers from their vulnerability to price spikes.
In Mann's highly inventive low-budget film, Stroheim plays an artist whose severe self-discipline and exacting standards come at a high price: isolation, naïveté, and vulnerability.
Sensing the administration's vulnerability on price issues, Congressional Republicans are pushing to repeal the federal gas tax -- 18.4 cents a gallon -- as a way to demonstrate sensitivity to rising gas prices.
But we are equally clear that forcing successful families to leave will lead to a revolving door that concentrates poverty and vulnerability – a price all society will end up paying for".
For the United States, the other developed countries and emerging countries their dependence on foreign oil has revived concerns about their vulnerability to price shocks and supply disruption.
