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Because they're doing so much dirty production in Asia now, because the environmental laws don't protect the people in Asia now, almost all of the clean air gains and the toxic air gains that we've achieved here in California have been wiped out by dirty air coming over from Asia.
But the dirty production, the burning of toxins, the lack of environmental standards in Asia, is actually creating so much dirty air pollution, it's coming across the ocean, and has erased our gains here in California.
And allowed them, with high accuracy, to predict the spins of the wheels, enabling them to make big financial gains.
And it very slowly, over a few minutes, sort of painfully goes up, and then it gains momentum and it looks like it's almost about to fall.
Narrator: When he arches his back, he gains altitude.
We start with just one green, and as it interacts it gains wealth or points or food.
And by placing data into a human context, it gains meaning.
The resulting shift to electric autos is going to be as game-changing as shifting from typewriters to the gains in computers.
Do all of these gains in health, wealth, safety, knowledge and leisure make us any happier?
First of all, recognizing that the glass is only 10 to 20 percent full is critical to seeing that there might be potential for additional gains from additional integration, whereas if we thought we were already there, there would be no particular point to pushing harder.
Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in trade when two parties trade their surpluses and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.
We've all seen versions of this graph, right, which shows the changes in wealth since 1979, and as you can see, almost all the gains in wealth have gone to the top 20 percent, and especially the top one percent.
In fact, there are teachers throughout the country who are helping their students make extraordinary gains.
All these small health gains and small pieces of the puzzle make a big difference.
But as a campaigner and investigator, I have a different view, because I've seen what can happen when an idea gains momentum.
gains over time, and these have been truly massive.
test, you find the gains have been greatest in certain areas.
The similarities subtest of the Wechsler is about classification, and we have made enormous gains on that classification subtest.
Take rodents and primates, for instance: In larger rodent brains, the average size of the neuron increases, so the brain inflates very rapidly and gains size much faster than it gains neurons.
And the thing is that we have to find ways if we're actually going to address sustainability of interlocking those complex systems and making better choices that result in net environmental gains.
They said it's worth too much damage to our society to justify the gains.
And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this pitting of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.
First off, it's really interesting to see, to actually visually see, how quick the gay rights movement has made its gains, if you look at a few of the major events on a timeline of both freedom movements.
But the gay marriage movement has been making gains for years now.
So just as Martin Luther King learned from and borrowed from Gandhi's tactics of civil disobedience and nonviolence, which became a bedrock of the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement saw what worked in the civil rights movement, and they used some of those same strategies and tactics to make gains at an even quicker pace.
William consolidated his gains with a huge castle-building campaign and a reorganization of English society.
Some families make huge capital gains.
If a country were to come and offer a three percent or four percent interest rate, and then say that the money would be used for building schools, roads, airports, train systems in the country of origin, a lot of migrants would be interested in parting with their money because it's not only financial gains that give them an opportunity to stay engaged with their country's development.
I believe that the rule of thumb is: Easier to mobilize does not always mean easier to achieve gains.
When they were interviewed after the study, all the participants said that they firmly believed that the learning and punishment study served a worthy scientific purpose which would have enduring gains for science, as opposed to the momentary, nonfatal discomfort caused to the participants.
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