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A farm that doesn't feed its fish, a farm that measures its success by the success of its predators.
This measures dynamic blood flow and therefore energy flow within the brain.
But some smart, drought-affected countries have adopted simple, innovative measures to make sure their citizens, their communities and their companies know just how dry their countries are.
Those two measures reduced the air pollution considerably.
And he finished his talk with the phrase, that, "The gross national product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile."
The second wave took place in the 1980s and 1990s against austerity measures that imposed harsh conditions on African economies.
And we make pencils the length of which measures the grime that we've pulled out of the air.
This movie, "Desperate Measures", was.... I'm not quite sure how to even put it into words.
Particularly the final twenty minutes are a complete "orgy" of gunfire, explosions and executions realized through improvised homemade measures.
Richard Greico will do anything to make her happy, and will go to extreme measures to make her happy.
It also has more scenes of outright horror and although I don't think the film actually measures up to those two films it is well worth the time of most thoughtful fans of the unusual (not necessarily horror).
Early in the movie, Cagney's Johnny Cave character tells his gumshoes in the Office of Weights and Measures that in the previous year, unscrupulous shop owners had cheated the American consumer out of more money than the aggregate National War Debt!
Genuinely frightening, creepy and ridiculous in equal measures.
The problem is that the builders just start over again, and he has to take more drastic measures.
He plays the cheapskate Weights and Measures guy who takes his job very seriously, stepping on the toes of a group of crooked politicians.
Cagney plays the head of weights and measures in NYC.
Three giant sabretooth tigers(..created in a laboratory from mitochondrial DNA, a "genetic breakthrough" derived from fossil material)are on the rampage accidentally set free through a series of events(such as a computer geek's introduced virus in order to unlock security measures keeping the resort novelty shops closed during construction & a security guard's leaving a gate open while searching for the missing page from a porn mag that flew away in the breeze)that threaten the lives of those it comes in contact with.
The plot is paper thin and ridiculous, the acting is an abomination, the script is completely laughable(the best is the end showdown with the cop and how he worked out who the killer is-it's just so damn terribly written), the clothes are sickening and funny in equal measures, the hair is big, lots of boobs bounce, men wear those cut tee-shirts that show off their stomachs(sickening that men actually wore them!!) and the music is just synthesiser trash that plays over and over again...in almost every scene there is trashy music, boobs and paramedics taking away bodies....and the gym still doesn't close for bereavement!!
After "Central City" loses its mob boss to murder, partner-in-crime Robert Armstrong (as "Doc" Rogers) decides to take drastic measures To preserve criminal continuity, he recruits the dead mobster's milquetoast son, Richard Cromwell (as Edward "Baby Face" Morgan), to run the family business.
Also, the reason why the country became so intrigued with this story was the details - how he stored the bodies in his apartment and the lengths and measures he went to to accomplish this; his cannibalism and his desire for flesh, etc.
Not only must Luc contend with ambitious reporter Erin, who won't leave his side, but Luc also must contend with General Radford, who wants to take extreme measures to stop SETH.
Unlike most book to movie stories, this one measures up.
Tells a boyish fantasy story, telling us how trapped we are in social situations and what kind of extreme measures one has to take to behave differently.
President Jack Kennedys artificial Intelligence said recently that drastic measures could be taken to stop Global Warming at any time.
She plays a woman who is driven to extreme measures to protect herself and her friends after she is attacked by a stranger.
The story of a grandmother who resorts to desperate measures to make money for her sick grandson's operation could've easily been a tearjerker for simpletons.
After all, I was a poor college student who had to take prudent measures in order to ensure that I had beer money when its all said and done.
Finally a replacement for sex and the city!!!!!!! ever since that show finished there's been a much need of something that measures even halfway.
Just about every other bit part, and there's a load of 'em, measures up.
"Demonic Toys" is a curious mixture of gore and cheesiness - in about equal measures.
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