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Europe was, no surprise, unprepared.

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Regardless of the true explanation, the US is singularly unprepared for jobless recoveries.

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared.

Most Affluents seem unprepared for this change, but such demands will need to be accommodated.

After all, most new political challengers appear unprepared for the top job until they are in power.

My first one involved translating 18th century French texts into English, and I was unprepared for what followed.

The entire financial system was totally unprepared to deal with the inevitable collapse of the housing and credit bubbles.

Many were unprepared when the floods swept the town since Davao is located in a supposedly typhoon free zone.

So they seem to be completely unprepared for the crisis and thus at a loss as to what to do.

The DPJ, despite its manifesto, seems unprepared to tame the mandarins, and so may be forced to rely on them.

But Putin remains unprepared to act in fact, so far, he has pretended that there is no crisis at all.

Indeed, Colombia s Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and Brazil s Dilma Rousseff both skilled and experienced politicians were utterly unprepared for their countries protests.

The experience was a lesson for banks, regulators, central banks, and treasuries, which, not surprisingly, were unprepared to handle a comprehensive crisis.

Even these fragments of musical expression, though some of them were good, were unpleasing because they were quite unexpected and unprepared for.

For Europeans, with our turbulent eastern and southern neighborhoods, this presents an additional security challenge for which we are materially and intellectually unprepared.

Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared.

Yet the UN Environment Programme s first adaptation report, released in Lima, showed that the world remains wholly unprepared to cover the costs of adaptation.

It was not just Lehman Brothers. The entire financial system was totally unprepared to deal with the inevitable collapse of the housing and credit bubbles.

The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.

Politicians representing these voters lack experience in government, sometimes are technically unprepared for governance, and are suspicious of technocrats and bureaucrats, particularly those in Brussels.

The problem is aggravated by the fact that the EU remains wholly unprepared for its big bang enlargement, even as it is set to begin.

These failures do not mean that most people around the world do not see eye to eye on these issues, or that they are unprepared to make timely, even courageous, decisions.

And yet in Évian the following month, although many European delegations voiced eloquent dismay over the torment experienced by the Jews of Germany and Austria, they were unprepared to take concrete action.

Yoichi Funabashi, former Editor in Chief of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, also is worried There s a sense in Japan that we are unprepared to be a tough, competitive player in this global world.

But states that specialize in a capability should do so as a part of a country cluster to minimize the risk of a nation facing a military challenge that its forces are unprepared to meet.

Countries with fragile health systems may be able to tackle a given ailment with the help of NGOs and foreign governments, but they are likely to be dangerously unprepared when confronted with unexpected outbreaks of new diseases.

The populations in the countries that will have to foot the bill are unprepared for the reality check ahead of them, adding fuel to a years long growth in Euro skepticism, which now pervades all political camps.

Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared. The lesson is clear even high class businesses are only as professional as the existing institutional infrastructure permits them to be.

Unfortunately, the DPJ scrapped an LDP sponsored civil service reform bill, which would have allowed the DPJ to replace mandarins with an army of political appointees. The DPJ, despite its manifesto, seems unprepared to tame the mandarins, and so may be forced to rely on them.

Politicians representing these voters lack experience in government, sometimes are technically unprepared for governance, and are suspicious of technocrats and bureaucrats, particularly those in Brussels. On many issues, the positions of populist parties conflict with the traditional pro capital and pro market platforms of established center right parties.

The problem is aggravated by the fact that the EU remains wholly unprepared for its big bang enlargement, even as it is set to begin. No one has any idea how to run a Union of 25 or more member states not even in terms of basic logistics, starting with the geometric escalation in translation requirements.

In Europe, we by and large failed to heed the warning signals of America s sub prime mortgage crisis when it erupted in the late summer of 2007, and thus were unprepared when the next phase of the crisis engulfed European banks, too. The lesson to be drawn is that the EU must move more quickly and with greater determination than has been the case so far.

But even with one, two, or three steps forward, the German and French governments will be taking great political risks domestically if the euro crisis in the Mediterranean worsens and a financial bailout there becomes necessary to save the common currency. The populations in the countries that will have to foot the bill are unprepared for the reality check ahead of them, adding fuel to a years long growth in Euro skepticism, which now pervades all political camps.