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There are 20 million people on the road at any time, in buses and trains, walking; 500,000 villages, 120 million households, and none of them wanted to report if they had a case of smallpox in their house, because they thought that smallpox was the visitation of a deity, Shitala Mata, the cooling mother, and it was wrong to bring strangers into your house when the deity was in the house.

CA: I mean, is the best instantiation of this that countries literally divide households into different A and B categories, or something like that, so that that kind of alignment could happen?

So you can align different households, Group A and Group B, and then the children go to school, the parents go to work in a synchronized way, and the other group, let's say, the alternating weeks.

And what you end up seeing is the whole phenomenon that we are actually stepping forth and basically leveraging future education, future children in our households.

They've created a consumer collective where they put solar panels on households and create a consumer-based utility, where the electricity they generate is basically pumped back out into the marketplace.

What this company does is they send a letter to households that say, "Here's your energy use, here's your neighbor's energy use: You're doing well."

We have now lived with 1,000 elderly households in 20 countries over the last 10 years.

But with something like Shimmer, or we have something called the Magic Carpet, embedded sensors in carpet, or camera-based systems that we borrowed from sports medicine, we're starting for the first time in those 600 elderly households to collect actual kinematic motion data to understand: What are the subtle changes that are occurring that can show us that mom has become risk at falls?

So, my mantra here, my fourth slogan is: 10,000 households or bust.

We need to drive a national, if not international, Framingham-type heart study of independent living technologies, where we have 10,000 elderly connected households with broadband, full medical characterization, and a platform by which we can start to experiment and turn these from 20-household anecdotal studies that the universities fund, to large clinical trials that prove out the value of these technologies.

So, 10,000 households or bust.

These are just some of the households that we've done in the Intel studies.

Nearly one out of three citizens in Melbourne had invested in installing rainwater holding tanks for their own households.

30 percent of our households gave.

For instance, here in Atlanta, about half of households make between $20,000 and $50,000 a year, and they are spending 29 percent of their income on housing and 32 percent on transportation.

Since 2000, already two-thirds of households in suburbia did not have kids in them.

So as a result of that, demographers predict that through 2025, 75 to 85 percent of new households will not have kids in them.

And especially as suburbia is becoming less centered on the family, the family households, there's a real hunger for more third places.

It's providing 1,500 households with the option of a more urban lifestyle.

Our neighborhood was full of large families, where fathers were the heads of households, so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee in a patriarchal environment.

It's the ability to be productive in the households, as a farmer, or as a carpenter or as a tailor and get your businesses to work and bring you into the economy.

If we can change the way households believe and think, we can change the way communities believe and think.

A masterful social commentary on the plight of the women from conservative, upper middle class Indian households, this is a film no one should miss.

Jim McKay gave a talk (Q&A) about the film afterward which presented his ironic situation: how to get distribution for a film which portrays minorities (women, non-whites) working on resolving controversial issues (teen pregnancy, teen motherhood, racial identity, single-mother households), and how to write a faithful script on all of these topics being a mid-thirties white male.

Josie Bissett and Rob Estes (who are married in real life) play a couple who marry in Las Vegas on a whim and then not only have to break the news to their kids but then have to try to meld their respective households (each has two boys and two girls)into a cohesive family unit.

Some might argue that this is his most anointed work, especially given the numbers that most lower income minority households now are single parent households and that translates more than likely to often being led by mothers.

Education is the key to recovery for households and countries hit by conflict.

Negative interest rates are intended to spur credit demand among companies and households.

For example, households and investment managers, reluctant to keep money in safe money-market funds, instead seek to invest in securities with longer maturities and higher credit risk, so long as they offer extra yield.

This made it possible for US households to stop saving and enjoy an exorbitant consumption level, but it stood on its head the conventional wisdom that capital should flow from rich to poor countries, where it can more productively be invested.

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