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And I love the shapes that I see in scientific observations and apparatus, especially astronomical forms and the idea of the vastness of it, the scale, is very interesting to me.
But I wanted to look not at the astronomical universe, but at the computational universe.
In the vastness of astronomical space and geological time, that which seems impossible in Middle World might turn out to be inevitable.
After seeing Lucy in her various sitcoms more than an astronomical number of times, I can tell you that I really love Lucy, however, this movie is a fiasco of unbelievably bad casting, music and dancing.
The first time around I was certainly impressed by the astronomical vistas we're treated to in this movie, but by and large I didn't think that much of the movie as a whole.
This only goes to show that movies don't need an astronomical budget and big name actors/actresses to be a success.
Nancy plays Susan Jacks, an IRS agent who's assigned to collect the astronomical taxes that have accrued.
While Brazil has halved its official poverty rate since 2003, prohibitively high consumer-goods prices and astronomical credit-card interest rates (averaging 145%) have prevented many of those who have escaped poverty from attaining middle-class lifestyles.
No doubt quite a few of them would have trouble paying the astronomical costs of American health-care bills without government assistance.
If so, they recovered quickly: Bill and Hillary Clinton are believed to be worth well over $100 million, all of it made since they left the White House and most of it through astronomical speaking fees.
After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand casualties, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.
The Golden HavesCAMBRIDGE -- Lately, I have been trying to explain to my eleven-year-old son Gabriel the astronomical differences between people’s income.
To put these astronomical numbers in perspective, I had Gabriel try to confirm that to be among the top nine earners in the United States, you had to pull in at least $150 per second , including time spent eating and sleeping.
This is as true as astronomical facts get, particularly because we have sent artificial satellites into orbit and seen that our planet is indeed roundish.
Embezzlement and misappropriation of astronomical sums of public funds would have been impossible without accomplices to provide protection and help one another ascend the political ladder.
Greece, for example, got into trouble doing precisely this, employing many thousands in the government and overpaying them, even while it ran up public debt to astronomical levels.
In the second quarter of this year, US GDP growth surpassed 4%, a rate that seems astronomical from a European perspective.
Brazil needs a new growth model, based on four key elements: tighter fiscal policy, looser monetary policy, a reduced role for state-owned banks in credit provision, and measures to lower Brazil’s astronomical private lending costs.
By contrast, Spain’s external deficit is still above 4% of GDP, while Portugal and Greece recently recorded astronomical figures of around 10%.
That combination could yield decent pensions only if the returns on savings were astronomical.
So Big Pharma is seeking “incentives” to pursue research and development of new antibiotics, such as extended patents or tax breaks; the alternative would be to charge astronomical prices for new drugs.
Suppose Brazilian interest rates stabilize at a high but not astronomical 10%, the economy grows at 4% per year, and the government achieves a "primary surplus"--a surplus of taxes over program spending--equivalent to 4% of GDP.
So experimenters will be looking for new particles with the right properties to provide the astronomical dark matter: very long-lived and very feebly interacting with ordinary matter or light.
When Einstein managed to generalise his theory and introduced the curved space-time, in which light bends around heavy astronomical bodies, the number of nominations increased even more.
Astronomical science was a common term in the late nineteenth century, to distinguish it from astrology and the study of ancient myths about the constellations.
Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society.
But, given the 20:1 liability-capital ratio in the banking sector, this approach implies that the funding requirements will become astronomical: compared to a €450 billion bill if potential losses remain undisclosed and dispersed, €9 trillion in debt guarantees would be needed to ensure the stability of the eurozone’s banking system.
The alternative is stunting, which currently afflicts an astronomical 165 million children.
Worse, not only was the frequency of these events vastly underestimated; so was the astronomical damage they would cause – something like the meltdowns that keep dogging the nuclear industry.
And it is also why pharmaceutical companies get away with using “value-based pricing” to justify astronomical drug-price hikes, even when the US government spends more than $32 billion annually on the high-risk links of the innovation chain that results in those drugs.
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