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It's all Greek to me.
Greek is not an easy language.
It's Greek to me.
My father was Greek.
The writer was descended from the Greek royal family.
These technical terms derive from Greek.
This word is derived from Greek.
This word comes from Greek.
Greek is difficult to learn.
Greek philosophers placed value on democracy.
Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.
I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.
He has a smattering of Greek.
He seems to be at home in Greek literature.
He translated Homer from the Greek into English.
He is a Greek by birth.
Do you know any Greek myths?
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I don't know French, much less Greek.
He tried to learn Greek, but soon got tired and gave it up.
That's Greek to me.
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He has the flattop of a Greek god.
I still want to do Greek.
Come on, man, we. we would have the best Greek restaurant in all of Paris.
Throwing plates! - No, none of this! You must be Greek.
Princess Makeda sends guards down to the Nile, to hunt for the Greek slave, Theonis.
With horror, Sotis realizes Ramphis has stolen the Greek girl from King Samlak.
And he said Greek-Roman!
Why didn't you tell me you were gonna write it in Greek?
In Greek mythology, sirens were originally bird women.
From two Greek words.
With any luck, Ashenden will get him on the Greek front, here.
They stage the old Greek tragedy again. and a father offers up his daughter to his evil gods.
Pindar is the greatest Greek poet.
I'll prove God has more brains than that Greek!
You must be Greek.
You should brush up on your Greek.
Get a Greek and brush up on him.
He's the handsomest man in the Russian court, tall and formed like a Greek god. a model in fashion and deportment which all of us strive to follow.
The greatest Greek poet?
Well, what was he, a Greek?
Greek to you wise guys, ain't it?
Then in 1923 a Greek dealer named Charilaos Konstantinides found it in an obscure shop.
You see, Father? He's just like a Greek god.
Your way, you have a Greek statue.
Why didn't you tell me you were going to write it in Greek?
You remember that Greek girl in Los Angeles?
The Greek woman at the next table, you remember I told you her husband was killed in Athens?
Why, he's a Greek businessman.
The Captian speaks only greek, italian, russian and turkish, Monsieur.
The Greek?
He's not a Greek. His real name is Banat.
So I really didn't blame you. when you began looking at the personality kids with the Greek profiles. and the curly haircuts.
It's from the Greek.
Greek, serious, calamity.
Thanks to her, the house remains Greek.
Who is against the law of Greece is not a Greek.
News and current affairs
Growing awareness of the failure of current policies is causing social discontent, civil disorder, and political instability, with the recently concluded Italian elections and the growing popular resistance to Greek reform efforts serving as a bellwether.
As the Greek economics minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has said, this is attributable to European Union subsidies, which drove entrepreneurs to follow the easy money into the import sector.
Since Greece's current-account deficit as a share of GDP was three times higher than Ireland's, Greek prices would have to fall by about half to achieve the same kind of success.
True, Turkey has closed its ports to ships from (Greek) Cyprus, and this is a violation of agreements.
But the Greek Cypriots voted against the plan because their leaders did not live up to the implicit deal with the EU to support it.
Nevertheless, Cyprus became an EU member - but only the Greek part.
It gave Greek Cypriot leaders the possibility of blocking progress in negotiations between the EU and Turkey.
So the question arises: how are private bondholders to be convinced to get rid of their Greek bonds at a loss if there is a credible buyer of last resort?
If Europe credibly volunteered funds to buy back all Greek debt, the Greek risk premium would disappear and private investors would be fully bailed out.
But what if the EFSF were to mimic Banco del Pacífico in a transparent way, say, by setting a threshold spread level above which it would fund buy-backs of any Greek bond in the market?
Would the EFSF be retiring Greek debt at bargain prices or would it be providing insurance to current bondholders?
Perhaps not - I am Greek, after all.
That means that Germans need to earn higher wages, commensurate with their increased productivity, so that they can afford more Greek and Spanish holidays.
In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.
The type of rescheduling proposed here would signal the Greek government's readiness to service its debt in full, and thus might be accepted without too much disruption in financial markets.
But, even though the additional loans that Greece will soon receive from the European Union and the IMF carry low interest rates, the level of Greek debt will rise rapidly to unsustainable levels.
That's why market interest rates on privately held Greek bonds and prices for credit-default swaps indicate that a massive default is coming.
And a massive default, together with a very large sustained cut in the annual budget deficit, is, in fact, needed to restore Greek fiscal sustainability.
That, in turn, requires making Greek goods and services more competitive relative to those of the country's trading partners.
But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.
Greece's trade deficit developed over the past decade because Greek prices have been rising faster than those of its trading partners.
Any higher rate would cause Greek prices to rise more rapidly than those of its eurozone trading partners.
Ever since the Greek crisis began, the country has shown that it cannot solve its problems as the IMF and the European Commission had hoped.
Such subsidies are a global scandal, yet large payments to largely wealthy American and Greek cotton growers seem likely to persist for many years.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel prevailed with her demand that the International Monetary Fund participate in a Greek bailout, should one be necessary.
She faced public skepticism about using German funds to bail out the Greek economy.
LONDON - The Greek debt problem has been poorly handled by Europe's decision-makers.
There may now be a market for a Greek translation of her book.
Although they might not agree with either of these two apocalyptic predictions, many of Europe's leaders are coming round to the view that there is a need for change, and that the Greek case has revealed a flaw at the center of the project.
Recently, under the aegis of the UN, a referendum on the future of Cyprus was held within the island's Greek and Turkish communities.
In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.
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