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A storm broke the window pane last Thursday.
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A window of opportunity opened at the beginning of Bush's first term, and closed shut after the terrorist attacks of September 2001.
For all the dire warnings that the window for a two-state solution is rapidly closing (or has already closed), it is the solution itself that is the problem.
Acting at the behest of the member states, the ECB has sufficient powers of persuasion: it could close its discount window to the banks, and the governments could seize institutions that refuse to cooperate.
Countries' need for better infrastructure is no license to throw prudence out the window.
So the window of opportunity to talk and compromise may be open only briefly, and, unfortunately, we have probably not seen the end of nuclear brinkmanship.
Instead, Bush should plan on a two-year window to give the Iraqi government as strong a chance as possible before the Americans leave, while emphasizing that Iraqis will thereafter be responsible for their own security and political salvation.
People thrusting their hands through the taxi window, begging.
But the window of opportunity is closing fast.
The European Central Bank treated all member countries' sovereign debt as essentially riskless, and accepted their government bonds at its discount window on equal terms.
Commercial banks could hold them without setting aside any capital reserves, and the European Central Bank (ECB) accepted them on equal terms at its discount window.
Indeed, the status quo can be thrown out the window at any time.
If you are a woman watching, you feel in your gut that these women won't be window dressing.
On the contrary, it is a significant window into the arena in which the conflict over the future of Iran's nuclear program is being waged.
It can, for example, restore through a side window the fiscal laxness which the Treaty of Amsterdam evicted by the front door.
With the lull in net immigration, we now have a window of opportunity to address these shortcomings.
Yet the window of opportunity for an EU-Kazakh partnership may be closing.
Meetings like the CDF provide a useful window into a country whose importance for the global economy will continue to grow.
China's strong fiscal position today gives it a window of opportunity.
But that window will close fast, because beneficiaries of specific reform policies have morphed into vested interests, which are fighting hard to protect what they have.
Instead, it brought about divergence. The European Central Bank treated all member countries' sovereign debt as essentially riskless, and accepted their government bonds at its discount window on equal terms.
But that, too, went out the window in May, when it started buying even Greek junk bonds.
There could be no greater opportunity for doing so than this strategically crucial window in the history of Europe and the southern Mediterranean.
This window of opportunity can be expanded through dialogue and reconciliation with those who are ready to disavow extremism and militancy.
The key is to capture the window of opportunity for industrialization arising from the relocation of light manufacturing from higher-income countries.
Most of this bureaucratic growth was the result of pressure from developed countries, which timed their efforts with the periodic replenishment of the International Development Association (the World Bank's window for soft loans).
This fact was obscured until recently by the European Central Bank's willingness to accept the sovereign debt of all eurozone members on equal terms at its discount window.