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Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.
And also, as you look away from the bridge, there's a divot on the left-hand side of the bank, and the river narrows.
And you can do this same thing with a lot of different quantities, you know, with guesses about the total amount of storage, the number of servers, the number of drives per server, and in each case using what you know to come up with a model that narrows down your guesses for the things that you don't know.
And as a mentor, I know what to do, which is to step up my support for the student, because research in psychology shows that if you're feeling fear and despair, your mind narrows down to very safe and conservative ways of thinking.
Over time, constant acid leakage from heartburn may form scar tissue which narrows the esophageal tube, making it harder to swallow food.
It expands and it narrows based on the context.
But when we lack power, our range narrows.
The problem is that when our range narrows, that produces something called the low-power double bind.
But it does give you a clue to the solution – dividing the batteries into smaller subsets narrows down the possible results.
My attention ... narrows.
Of the three constraints offered, the one that narrows our options the most is if the number is a perfect cube.
It narrows our perspectives.
That reward actually narrows our focus and restricts our possibility.
And this gap really narrows.
But focusing on heroism alone dangerously narrows down the subject and approaching it from an American viewpoint warps and twists it into a failure.
It starts out really good, with a lot of elements and characters laid out to build suspense and great atmosphere, but by halfway through it narrows itself down to characters seriously wondering if an escaped stallion is behind the murders.
Yet China’s move to saving absorption narrows that option.
It narrows government budget deficits by increasing tax revenues and limiting welfare spending.
This means that unless America’s domestic savings rate rises mightily – which it shows no signs of doing – and unless investment expenditure remains abnormally low for the rest of this decade, the supply of loanable funds to finance investment will soon be much less than demand when the current-account deficit narrows to sustainable levels.
And political polarization narrows the scope for effective tactical and structural policy responses.
The sharp differences in comparative advantage that were apparent two decades ago are diminishing as the gap in income, capital depth (including human capital), and capabilities narrows.
As the deflation gap narrows, however, the overall impact of monetary policy will weaken, as it increasingly influences prices more than output.
When such candidates come to power, the space for negotiations narrows, and the chances of brokering a settlement between opposing sides decreases.
Even if this does not trigger a crisis, it sharply narrows the government’s scope for using expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate the economy.
According to the OECD, these include a very low average number of years of schooling, with young workers having almost no more formal education than their older counterparts; little on-the-job training; heavy bureaucratic burdens on firms; corrupt judges and police; high crime rates; and a large, low-productivity informal sector that narrows the tax base and raises tax rates on the rest of the economy.
But if the trade deficit narrows because households save more and government deficits are reduced, it is possible to have a higher level of investment – and thus higher incomes in the long term.
It remains to be seen whether these attitudes will persist in their current form, and whether the transatlantic divide widens or narrows.
With effective channels for the exchange of goods and well-connected information networks, growth accelerates, economic opportunity increases, and inequality narrows.
This double emphasis on the continental/global and the local narrows the purview of the nation-state.
Access to education thus often results in greater equality and social cohesion, and narrows opportunities for bigots and opportunists to sow division.