The lifting of sanctions, which will include an end to an EU embargo on the imports of Iranian oil, will have huge ramifications internationally, most notably on the global oil market as Tehran is expected to immediately add almost half a million barrels per day to its crude exports.
Perhaps I am more sensitive to such international ramifications than most.
Mohamed Bouazizi -- the Tunisian fruit vendor whose self-immolation is recognized as the first act of defiance of the Arab Spring -- could never have known that when he set himself ablaze his act would ignite a revolution with global ramifications whose most recent ramblings are heard in downtown Manhattan, at the very seat of capitalism.
"For candidates who didn't get a $75,000 check they were expecting, the real-world ramification is most printers won't give you credit unless they know you," he said.
Though the specter of a possible resale market was raised at a hearing last month, officials expressed little concern about its potential ramifications, particularly because most drivers leave only a pittance's worth of parking time on their receipts.
Johnston has no plans to return to Scotland, unwilling to subject his children to the potential ramifications of the most controversial transfer the country's football scene has ever witnessed.
"What an amazing age," he writes, "in which cosmic mysteries can be revealed to all and ignored by almost all!" VICE recently spoke with Poundstone about his findings, their ramifications, and the most obvious current example of willful obliviousness in our country.
A black joke among Lebanese last year asked why their much battered country was spared the turmoil that attended the Arab Spring and its most violent ramifications, especially in Syria.
While the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen all fell, the eruptions that led to those outcomes were largely internal, with their most significant ramifications limited to the examples they set in the Arab world.
