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The twist in this tale is that only
half
of the owners were correctly informed.
Half
of the time, Horowitz told the owner of a dog that had actually left the biscuit alone that his dog had taken the treat.
And
half
the time the owner of a naughty dog was told that his dog had been good.
More than
half
of these loans also are “tied,” meaning that they must be used for procurement from Chinese companies.
But he will be remembered primarily as the visionary who provided the intellectual firepower for free-market enthusiasts during the second
half
of the century, and as the éminence grise behind the dramatic shift in the economic policies that took place after 1980.
Moreover, it demands further reductions beyond 2030 that ensure subsequent progress toward net-zero carbon emissions by the second
half
of this century.
Both policies reflect the skewed distribution of China’s population, with more than 90% squeezed into the eastern
half
of the country, creating extreme congestion and the potential for political instability.
And shale gas emits CO2 when burned, even though it has
half
the carbon content of coal and has played a significant role in cutting US carbon emissions to mid-1990’s levels.
But that is only
half
the story – and not even the more important
half.
Nearly
half
of the unemployed in the US, for example, have now been out of work for six months or longer, up from the traditional median unemployment duration of just 10 weeks.
In order to succeed, the Commission’s critics in Parliament needed to muster a very large majority in order to carry a vote of censure: two thirds of the votes cast, and over
half
of all the members of the Parliament.
These gains, more than a third of which can be realized in the US alone, would be enough to meet
half
the world’s current infrastructure needs.
For an American, there is a certain amusement in Australian worries about the deficit and debt: their deficit as a percentage of GDP is less than
half
that of the US; their gross national debt is less than a third.
Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to surge from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people – more than
half
of the world’s population – in 2030.
In the United States, according to the recently released World Inequality Report 2018, the share of national income claimed by the top 1% of the population rose from 11% in 1980 to 20% in 2014, compared to just 13% for the entire bottom
half
of the population.
They commissioned the first epidemiological surveys to identify the source of cholera outbreaks – which could wipe out
half
the population of a neighborhood in a matter of weeks – and built new waterworks to stop the spread of the disease from the filthy Thames and tainted local pumps.
By mid-March, over
half
of these illegal shipments were stopped.
But while TB deaths have declined by
half
since 1990, the impact of diabetes is rising fast.
About
half
of the 1.56-percentage-point rise is attributable to an increase in the real interest rate, as measured by the inflation-indexed ten-year Treasury bonds, whose expected real yield has risen from zero in July 2016 to 0.82% now.
The other
half
of the rise in the interest rate reflects the increase in the expected rate of inflation from 1.38% to 2.12%.
With the EU accounting for
half
of British trade turnover, the impact on exporters could be devastating (despite a more competitive exchange rate).
In Marx’s Shadow AgainA century and a
half
ago, Karl Marx both gloomily and exuberantly predicted that the modern capitalism he saw evolving would prove incapable of producing an acceptable distribution of income.
But the drug works in only
half
of the people treated.
As China follows through on its pledge to retaliate, the casualties will include more than
half
the bilateral trade between the two countries, with China itself suffering the most losses.
Indeed, it has already created a detailed strategy to cut household gas consumption by more than half, with the goal of dispersing the corrupt gas monopoly of Naftogaz and ending Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia.
More than
half
of all Africans live in countries that have not conducted a labor-force survey in at least a decade.
To put that in perspective: more than
half
of the 22 million people living in Syria in 2011 are either dead or displaced.
The question is this: Will twenty-first-century Asia resemble Europe – the dominant region of much of modern history – during the first
half
of the twentieth century, when it experienced two wars of unprecedented cost and destruction, or the second half, when tensions with the Soviet Union were effectively managed and Western Europe experienced unprecedented peace and prosperity?
RMB deposits in Hong Kong banks are also down by
half.
In early February, after a fierce debate, Israel's Knesset passed in a first reading a bill stipulating that NGOs that receive more than
half
of their budget from foreign public institutions must disclose their funding sources.
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