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The merits of “bio-prospecting” have been examined carefully, and the returns are in fact very modest, ranging from just $0.20 per hectare in parts of California to $20 in Western Ecuador.
Composed of many modest spans, the structure involved no radically new design concepts and seemed to be a mere application of proven technology.
Michel may prefer the modest policy initiatives and incrementalism that have characterized Merkel’s chancellorships.
There have been modest moves to increase the European Parliament’s powers, but they have not been recognized sufficiently by the European public to quiet complaints.
To ordinary Russians he appears as modest, principled, and honest – a vast contrast with the tainted politicians of the Yeltsin years.
From 1999 to 2013, real per capita GDP rose at an annual rate of about 1% (which reflected a more modest rise of real GDP and an actual decline in population).
Other potential nominees say bluntly that they do not want to be members of a court led by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, citing “over-promotion” of those with modest credentials and professional experience at the expense of more qualified candidates.
Despite its modest military capabilities, Hamas managed to hold out for 51 days – and, in the process, place itself at the center of Palestinian and regional politics.
At the end of the 1970’s, monetarists bet that only a transitory and modest increase in unemployment could rein in the creeping – and trotting – inflation of the industrial west, and that in retrospect the cost of returning to effective price stability would be judged worthwhile.
Indeed, though Hill's modest initial agenda certainly would do no harm (and should be pursued as quickly as possible), any substantial measures beyond it would confront major roadblocks.
Some of these facilities may be modest local clinics with a few beds.
On balance, considering that the Fed is under fire from both directions, perhaps a modest tightening of monetary policy is about right, says former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff.
The impact of such cuts on aggregate demand is almost always modest, and they are poorly suited for shifting expectations for recovery and growth in the post-financial-crisis downturn.
But he can expect considerable backing from Republicans if he wants to maintain a sizeable US military presence in Afghanistan beyond this July, or a modest military presence in Iraq beyond the end of 2011.
This cost will be modest relative to the size of their economies, and any successful climate-change agreement will require similar commitments.
If rich countries are unable to agree to pay even a modest price for carbon, the talks in Paris will surely be judged a failure.
And those payouts are modest compared to the research and development efforts they stimulate.
The number is actually quite modest: If you can move between 100,000 and one million units of a disruptive product, you can establish the technology standards for that category and in time become the global leader of a new industry.
They can all be fixed by means of modest reforms.
Harry Truman was a modest orator, but compensated for the lack of public rhetoric by attracting and ably managing a stellar set of advisers.
But, even were a revived Franco-American effort to succeed in getting the UN organ to endorse targeted penalties to hamstring the financial underpinnings of the Revolutionary Guards and other Iranian elites, the proposed measures appear to be too modest.
By selecting particular villages and providing basic health care, bed nets to stop malaria, primary education, better seeds, and other agricultural assistance, the organization aims to show that well-designed, comprehensive aid plans can, at relatively modest cost, raise people out of poverty.
But, despite modest material support, the US could not sustain a government that could not sustain itself.
Ahn’s most obvious merits are his personal history of overcoming severe challenges and his modest demeanor.
With the US economy currently growing at a 1.6% annual rate, a fiscal drag of even 1% implies near-stagnation in 2013, though a modest recovery in housing and manufacturing, together with QE3, should keep US growth at about its current level in 2013.
In the short run, QE3 will lead investors to take on risk, and will stimulate modest asset reflation.
The cumulative result of all these national objections, is that the Nice summit is likely to see only a modest increase in the potential for majority voting, much smaller than enlargement requires.
Having more time, they are using the less visible, and much more gradual, path of “financial repression,” under which interest rates are forced down so that creditors, including those on modest fixed incomes, subsidize debtors.
Moreover, though OECD data point to modest deregulation of Spain’s labor market, there is little evidence linking deregulated labor markets with improved competitiveness and exports.
So far, there are no United Nations refugee camps, only modest aid from religious organizations and other NGOs.
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