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The system is complex, expensive to administer, and can result in double taxation because members usually do not allow full write-offs for losses and tax liabilities incurred abroad.
It will double in the US unless President Obama reverses course, as President Bill Clinton did when he and a Republican Congress balanced the budget.
A recent study forecasts that Asia’s low-elevation population could double by 2060, to 983 million, from its level in 2000, thus accounting for 70% of the world’s total.
Half of the increase will come from Sub-Saharan Africa, where waste generation will more than triple, and South Asia, where it will more than double.
With broad action on policy, investment, and technology, Africa’s farmers can double their productivity within five years.
And, two weeks before Martin died, Jolie revealed that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation – which is correlated with a woman’s being five times more susceptible to breast cancer and 28 times more susceptible to ovarian cancer.
A double standard applies, because, whatever Nature does is, well, natural, and therefore good.
By using many of the buildings in double shifts, we were able to provide 106,795 Syrian refugee children with schooling.
I am aiming to double the number of Syrian children in our public schools to 200,000 students.
Think about it: investing in the stock market at 6.9% a year, and reinvesting any dividends, means that, in a tax-free account, the real value of the investment will double every ten years.
If Pakistan is going to abandon its double game of claiming to be a US ally while harboring terrorists, the US will need to stop rewarding it for offering, as Trump put it, “nothing but lies and deceit.”
In March, in response to a nerve-agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the United Kingdom, the Trump administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats, the largest number since the Soviet era.
Korea’s quota share, for example, will increase by 106%, and that of China and Turkey will double.
They allege that the agreement creates a double standard, according to which only some countries may possess nuclear weapons.
There is a double standard at work.
The NPT, some four decades old, is based on a double standard that gives only five countries – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US – the right (for how long is not defined) to possess nuclear weapons.
Where the critics of the proposed US-India accord are wrong is in charging that such a double standard is wrong when it comes to India because it opens the way for countries such as North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
In fact, through smarter asset management, cities could more than double their investments without having to raise taxes or cut spending.
Even with a modest yield, Boston could more than double its infrastructure investments.
By 2020 or so, Asia and the emerging-market countries will bring double America’s consumer power to the world economy.
Indeed, the government says that the growth rate will hit double figures soon.
To allow self-appointed arbiters of Indian culture to impose their hypocrisy and double standards on the rest of us is to permit them to define Indianness down until it ceases to be Indian.
After all, past investment shortfalls have to be made up and future-oriented investments undertaken simultaneously – a double burden that must be borne by the current generation.
The insurance industry has committed to double its green investments, to $84 billion, by the end of 2015.
In cities like Rio de Janeiro, land costs can account for more than 40% of a home’s price; in extremely expensive markets, like San Francisco, it can be double that.
Trade links between the two countries are old and deep-rooted, and they were supposed to benefit after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Turkey in 2008, when it was decided that bilateral trade should double, to $20 billion, by 2011, and reach $30 billion in 2012.
The ban on tank-washing, technical features such as double hulls and sectioning of tanks, introduction of one-way sea lanes and, most important, the use of Global Positioning Systems, have greatly reduced the amount of oil entering the sea from tankers.
New Directions for the UNNEW YORK – The United Nations today leads what seems at times like a double life.
The African Development Bank estimates that it will double the volume of trade between the two countries, while reducing marginal costs by 30%.
Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China’s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5% average annual growth.
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