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And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores in six states.

It's a neighborhood where I grew up, and it's a neighborhood with a large problem.

Well, we turn it into a knowledge certificate, a global knowledge certificate, which you can use, if you're a large organization, a school, a university, or maybe a news agency, to certify yourself as globally knowledgeable.

What we find is that when we have a large body of data, we can fundamentally do things that we couldn't do when we only had smaller amounts.

Now, the second fact is more about wealth inequality, and here the central fact is that wealth inequality is always a lot higher than income inequality, and also that wealth inequality, although it has also increased in recent decades, is still less extreme today than what it was a century ago, although the total quantity of wealth relative to income has now recovered from the very large shocks caused by World War I, the Great Depression, World War II.

So the big difference today, wealth inequality is still very large, with 60, 70 percent of total wealth for the top 10, but the good news is that it's actually better than one century ago, where you had 90 percent in Europe going to the top 10.

Now, in a large class of dynamic models of wealth accumulation with such dynastic motive for accumulating wealth, you will have all sorts of random, multiplicative shocks.

So for instance, some families have a very large number of children, so the wealth will be divided.

So this makes it easier to build and perpetuate large fortunes because you can consume four fifths, assuming zero tax, and you can just reinvest one fifth.

You know, in Germany, in France, in Japan, you had five percent growth rate between 1950 and 1980 largely due to reconstruction, and also due to very large demographic growth, the Baby Boom Cohort effect.

The other important issue is that there are scale effects in portfolio management, together with financial complexity, financial deregulation, that make it easier to get higher rates of return for a large portfolio, and this seems to be particularly strong for billionaires, large capital endowments.

And you find the same for large university endowments — the bigger the initial endowments, the bigger the rate of return.

I mean, the brain is this intensely active organ that produces a correspondingly large amount of waste that must be efficiently cleared.

So the brain has this large pool of clean, clear fluid called cerebrospinal fluid.

For that matter, between the post office and any national banking system that has a large network that serves the poor.

Third, large nonprofit philanthropic organizations should create a remittance platform on a nonprofit basis.

Another major impediment to the flow of remittances reaching the family is the large and exorbitant and illegal cost of recruitment, fees that migrants pay, migrant workers pay to laborers who found them the job.

Migrants send money home, but they also save a large amount of money where they live.

This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.

As you might know, proteins are large biological molecules that perform different functions within our body, like catalyzing metabolic reactions or responding to stimuli or replicating DNA, but before a protein is expressed or produced, relevant parts of its genetic code present in the DNA are copied into the messenger RNA, so this messenger RNA has instructions on how to build a specific protein, and potentially it can build hundreds of proteins, but the one that tells them when to build them and how many to build are microRNAs.

So these leaders are by no means perfect, but they are by and large the best leaders we've seen in the last 50 years.

This device consists of a large, round table and some machinery.

They ended up printing bills that were in denominations as large as 100 trillion dollars.

He looked through the records, and he discovered that a surprisingly large number of people in that hospital were there because of injuries due to falling coconuts.

But by and large, that's not it.

Now, antibiotics have been used for patients like this, but they've also been used rather frivolously in some instances, for treating someone with just a cold or the flu, which they might not have responded to an antibiotic, and they've also been used in large quantities sub-therapeutically, which means in small concentrations, to make chicken and hogs grow faster.

Basically, the massive use of antibiotics around the world has imposed such large selection pressure on bacteria that resistance is now a problem, because we've now selected for just the resistant bacteria.

Now, what do these medium, large, mega-, and hypercities look like?

Well, despite all of this promise, unfortunately the gulf between our fields remains large.

Now the key thing there is, we've been able to take a large amount of information from many Chinese speakers and produce a text-to-speech system that takes Chinese text and converts it into Chinese language, and then we've taken an hour or so of my own voice and we've used that to modulate the standard text-to-speech system so that it would sound like me.

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