Height
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That includes the most obvious “face” of the condition: roughly 9% of West African children under five are wasted, or too thin for their
height.
At the
height
of the Cold War, many leftists opposed NATO.
But genes are only one of many factors that influence
height
and age at first birth.
If evolution took its steady course and changed the genetic basis of
height
and age at first birth, we might not see women ten generations later who were shorter and matured earlier, for the effects of nutrition and culture could more than compensate for the genetic change.
Even when we focus on a simple physical trait like height, natural selection in humans turns out to be a multifaceted and nuanced process.
In short, the Arab world’s transition countries are much more vulnerable today than they were at the
height
of the protests in 2011.
The international community’s failure to bring the CTBT into force is one of the reasons why the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ iconic Doomsday Clock remains poised at five minutes to midnight – the closest it has been to midnight since the
height
of the Cold War.
Now the country has more than half of the world’s roughly 50,000 large dams, defined as having a
height
of at least 15 meters, or a storage capacity of more than three million cubic meters.
Some indicators, such as workers’ average height, suggest that standards of living may have even declined for a while.
At the
height
of the lending frenzy (2004-2006), the study finds that banks loaned even more in response to an examination, and that the outcomes were even worse.
As much as I loved playing basketball, I was destined never quite to reach six feet in
height.
That was the question faced by the Federal Reserve at the
height
of its quantitative-easing program, when its monthly purchases of long-term assets drove yield-hungry investors into these countries, causing their currencies and asset prices to rise.
Community health workers in each of Rwanda’s 15,000 villages, as well as nurses at health centers across the country, periodically measure the weight and
height
of each child under the age of five, referring for help those identified as malnourished or at risk.
These deals were brokered at the
height
of the constitutional drama, when America said it would not support an attempt by the government to extend its stay in office unconstitutionally.
Those disputes are bound to worsen, given China’s new focus on erecting mega-dams, best symbolized by its latest addition on the Mekong – the 4,200-megawatt Xiaowan Dam, which dwarfs Paris’s Eiffel Tower in
height
– and a 38,000-megawatt dam planned on the Brahmaputra at Metog, close to the disputed border with India.
In addition, China has identified another mega-dam site on the Brahmaputra at Daduqia, which, like Metog, is to harness the force of a nearly 3,000-meter drop in the river’s
height
as it takes a sharp southerly turn from the Himalayan range into India, forming the world’s longest and steepest canyon.
But, in the autumn of 2008, at the
height
of the global financial crisis, eurozone heads of state did not consider the creation of a common bank-rescue fund.
In 2012, at the
height
of the standoff between the Republican-controlled Congress and Democratic President Barack Obama over deficits and the national debt, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney proffered an economic plan that featured eye-popping deficits to finance tax cuts and higher military spending.
Rebellions could be stopped by killing enough people from a great
height.
At the
height
of America’s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union’s former sphere of influence.
The Luddites’ rampage was at its
height
in 1811-12.
At the
height
of the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the 1980’s, Pakistan was the covert conduit for Filipino Muslim militants passing to and from Afghanistan and back to the island of Mindanao, which has long been a stronghold of Muslim rebels.
At the
height
of the crisis, annual inflation reached 2,477%; at that rate, prices for food and household goods increased daily.
Kennedy himself demonstrated leadership through goal setting a half-century ago in his quest for peace with the Soviet Union at the
height
of the Cold War.
The American civil-rights struggle that reached its
height
in the 1960s fought racial prejudice and discrimination at home and opposed colonialism abroad.
At the
height
of Yeltsin’s career, many Russians identified with his bluntness, impulsiveness, sensitivity to personal slight, even with his weakness for alcohol.
At the
height
of the Egyptian protests, Chinese Web surfers who searched the terms “Egypt” or “Cairo” were returned messages saying that no results could be found.
It was 5 p.m. on September 13, 1995, during the
height
of the war in Bosnia.
At the
height
of tensions, when China found the governments of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian intolerable, it never ceased its policy of embracing the Taiwanese people and Taiwanese businessmen.
Even at the
height
of global trade expansion in 2002-2007, exports (in value-added terms) accounted for only a little more than one-quarter of GDP growth, whereas domestic investment contributed a substantially larger share.
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