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But nuclear weapons, unusable and extremely expensive to maintain, are low-hanging fruit – a risk that we can easily grasp and eliminate.
They are the poisonous fruit of a technology that we created – and that we can and must control.
It has borne fruit.
In modern economies, people distinguish between generic words, which refer to concepts or a set of individual things (a certain kind of fruit, for example), and trademarks, which refer to specific goods or services around which someone has built value.
Greece exports refined petroleum products, olive oil, raw cotton, and dried fruit.
Because it is difficult to become ever-more efficient at producing a ton of copper or a pound of fruit (and, in Chile’s case, the grade of copper ore is fast declining), further growth has to come from diversification: moving capital and labor to new sectors, where productivity is higher.
But, just when Turkey believed that its efforts were bearing fruit, and that direct talks were in the offing, Israel invaded Gaza.
The fruit of the Franco-German partnership included the European single currency, the euro.
This transformation, though far from complete – indeed, it may well last years – has nonetheless started to bear fruit.
The remedy it offers, investment in education and skills, promises few immediate rewards and would bear fruit years from now, at best.
In this context, policymakers may reach for the low-hanging fruit of competitive devaluations, leading to a series of unilateral policy measures and retributive responses.
Putin’s efforts appear to be bearing fruit.
It is composed of highly profitable multinational companies, now investing and hiring workers; advanced economies’ rescued banks paying off their emergency bailout loans; the growing middle and upper classes in emerging economies buying more goods and services; a healthier private sector paying more taxes, thereby alleviating pressure on government budgets; and Germany, Europe’s economic power, reaping the fruit of years of economic restructuring.
Last but not least, to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution translates into economic growth and bears fruit for all, we must work together to create new regulatory ecosystems.
Educational reforms will likely require a generation or more to bear fruit.
This is the “low-hanging fruit” that Modi should go after right away.
We have seen the Arab Spring blossom haltingly in a few countries; in others, it is still uncertain whether it will bear fruit.
Potential for public-private partnerships exist in energy and telecommunications projects, in wells and irrigation, in the construction sector, in infrastructure such as roads, airports, and harbors, and in processing plants for agro industries, meat, fruit, and vegetables.
The good news is that, from an economic perspective, there is still plenty of low-hanging fruit for restoring growth.
The low-hanging fruit in manufacturing has already been picked.
If this effort is to bear real fruit for him, however, he must continue to transform North Korea's Arogue state" image into that of a normal state.
This does not capture the full picture: for example, meat accounts for about 4% of food wastage but 20% of the costs, while 70% of fruit and vegetable output is wasted, accounting for 40% of the total cost.
As a result, fruit and vegetable prices are twice what they would be otherwise, and milk costs 50% more than it should.
Whoever plants a tree and diligently looks after it until it matures and bears fruit is rewarded.
Barbers, clothes shops, fruit stalls.
But if the UN move does not bear fruit within a reasonable timeframe, the public might turn against its political leaders – as well as against the Israeli occupiers.
Earlier reforms are now bearing fruit, and this has helped to sustain economic growth.
The Western view of apes regarded them as akin to Rousseau's "noble savage" - autonomous individuals, devoid of social ties and obligations, driven by instinct to swing haphazardly from one fruit tree to the next.
In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a humiliated Tunisian fruit vendor set himself alight in protest; in a matter of weeks, the region was aflame.
He later lent himself to a spot in a tv commercial, promoting vegetarianism, in which his line was that though he only ate fruit and vegetables what he really liked was "eating politicians for breakfast".
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