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The writers of the time were nearly unanimous in praising his rule.
This slide here, the black line shows the measurements that scientists have taken for the last 150 years showing that the Earth's temperature has steadily increased, and you can see in particular that in the last 50 years there's been this dramatic increase of nearly one degree centigrade, or almost two degrees Fahrenheit.
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.
What happened after the Internet was the cost of innovation went down so much because the cost of collaboration, the cost of distribution, the cost of communication, and Moore's Law made it so that the cost of trying a new thing became nearly zero, and so you would have Google, Facebook, Yahoo, students that didn't have permission — permissionless innovation — didn't have permission, didn't have PowerPoints, they just built the thing, then they raised the money, and then they sort of figured out a business plan and maybe later on they hired some MBAs.
I think it was actually that moment that sent me on the journey to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage from nearly 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Mali, to find out how they fought fundamentalism peacefully like my father did, and how they coped with the attendant risks.
This remains true today, nearly 20 years later.
In fact, she now has 23 bodyguards, because she has weathered bomb attacks that nearly killed her kids, and it took the leg off of one of her guards.
There, in spite of his situation, he graduated high school with nearly perfect grades.
From 1975 on, nearly 200,000 people collaborated constantly with the Stasi, more than one percent of the population.
In 1989, he was the leader of the peaceful revolution and he nearly became the first freely elected Prime Minister of the GDR until it came out that he was an informant.
In nearly every institution, even in the churches or in West Germany, there were many of them.
In nearly every speech, the Stasi minister gave the order to find out who is who, which meant who thinks what.
Nearly no prisoner resisted without giving a testimony.
Over nearly all of Earth's history, threats have come from nature — disease, earthquakes, asteroids and so forth — but from now on, the worst dangers come from us.
But when it comes to the brain, that strategy has been limited, because today, we don't know nearly enough, yet, about how the brain works.
In those visits to the emergency room, I had two CAT scans, I had a needle placed in the lower part of my back to collect spinal fluid, I had nearly a dozen blood tests.
Part of the reason that we have this conundrum is because there are not nearly enough upstreamists in the healthcare system.
There are not nearly enough of that third friend, that person who is going to find out who or what is throwing those kids in the water.
The problem is that there's just not nearly enough of them out there.
We're seeing nearly a tripling of that confidence in our work.
It's going to start with a control condition that will say "Sham" nearly invisibly in red in the lower left, when no current is delivered, and you'll hear the neurologist speaking to the patient first.
In 1863, she became the first woman in United States history to plan and lead a military raid, liberating nearly 700 enslaved persons in South Carolina.
Havana's Latin American Medical School: It's the largest medical school in the world, graduating 23,000 young doctors since its first class of 2005, with nearly 10,000 more in the pipeline.
The first patients walked through the doors in December 2007, and since then, the hospital has received nearly one million patient visits.
Take a look: 748 Haitian graduates by 2012, when cholera struck, nearly half working in the public health sector but one quarter unemployed, and 110 had left Haiti altogether.
And it's Camilla in her wedding dress, which, again, nearly got re-used now, recently prior to her wedding.
I've spent nearly two decades observing what makes people luckier than others and trying to help people increase their luck.
Thirty-one percent, nearly one in three teenagers, are withdrawing from classroom debate.
I grew up in China, and my earliest memories are of being rushed to the hospital because I had such bad asthma that I was there nearly every week.
And here are the results, and this is broken down into nearly 800 different municipalities.
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