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So, the flow of resources from the commodity booms to the bottom billion are without precedent.
I've looked to see what is the relationship between higher commodity prices of exports, and the growth of commodity-exporting countries.
That is not a forecast about how commodity prices go; it's a forecast of the consequences, the long-term consequences, for growth of an increase in prices.
Now, there's one big change since the commodity booms of the 1970s, and that is the spread of democracy.
In expensive cities like New York, it has the magical power of being able to multiply real estate values by allowing views, which is really the only commodity that developers have to offer to justify those surreal prices.
By the end of the Bronze Age, cheese was a standard commodity in maritime trade throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
And I have to say, this really proves that storytelling, it's a commodity, it's a staple.
Commoditized: where they're treated like a commodity, where people don't care who makes them.
You know how much coffee is worth, when treated as a commodity as a bean?
Futura was a German typeface, taken in, made into an American commodity.
Left unchecked, we will head into another economic collapse, one very similar to the farm crisis of the 1980s, when commodity market prices crashed, interest rates doubled, and many farmers lost everything.
And Angelika and those like her would no longer be something, a commodity brought online for the enjoyment of adults thousands of miles away.
Our inability to use it for the tremendous energetic commodity that it is, and just throw it away.
I'm a commodity person.
It's a bioreactor; a kind of microorganism brewery that contains yeasts that have been engineered to produce specific commodity chemicals and compounds like fragrances and flavors.
Then, spirits became an important trade commodity because, unlike beer and wine, they didn’t spoil.
Because without that, you can't have this kind of place, food that is grown locally and also is part of the landscape, and is not just a zero-sum commodity off in some unseen hell-hole.
Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth for a particular commodity.
We live in an age when knowledge of emotions is an extremely important commodity, where emotions are used to explain many things, exploited by our politicians, manipulated by algorithms.
No other commodity has that.
It's bringing those externalities back into the price of the commodity.
And you've taken all this complexity and beauty, and you've turned it into a cheap commodity.
The lesson I want to leave you with, from these data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.
And it can also turn into a commodity, which is a very scary thing.
Understanding all of this enables us to shift our perception of seafood away from a commodity to an opportunity to restore our ecosystem.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (sound familiar), water has become the most precious commodity (this has got to sound familiar) and a small minority control its distribution (what a surprise, just have a heart attack and die from that surprise).
This is a movie that one can watch repeatedly with increasing wonder, not a simple commodity that is gulped down with one's favorite beverage on the way to the evening news.
During the 80s, Dennis Quaid was a hot commodity, but in the early 90s, Dennis Quaid disappeared from the scene.
When they are on the beach, I nearly cried... there is the unspoken realization that time is the most precious commodity and it is most evident when they are together.
But smaller plot elements introduce tension in every scene--between Widmark and the police captain, between the bad guys played by Palance and Mostel, between Palance and a dying plague-stricken man whom Palance mistakenly believes is the subject of a manhunt because he has smuggled in some valuable commodity, between Widmark and his wife, and with the underlying question of whether the public is better served by informing them of the danger or hiding the situation to avoid a full-scale panic.
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