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Historically, the US has added disproportionately to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and among large countries it remains the biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide by far – more than twice China’s rate and nearly 2.5 times more than Europe in 2013 (the latest year for which the World Bank has reported complete data).
For nearly a century after the United States was founded, slavery remained legal; untold numbers of Africans and their descendants suffered in bondage or died horrifying deaths.
As the big economic and political winner of the eurozone, Germany, in particular, cannot let a serious crisis of confidence threaten the European project, because nearly two-thirds of its exports go to the EU.
In the meantime, though, we have clarity on at least three matters:First, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, or R2P, which the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted in 2005, in response to the world’s inaction as nearly one million men, women, and children were slaughtered in Rwanda, is essentially dead.
As former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon often said, affordable and clean energy “will be essential” to meeting nearly all of the objectives set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In nearly every region, African countries have been slow to ensure that the next generation of energy workers is ready; capacity building has been an afterthought.
The microscopic test gives false results in nearly half of all cases.
Today, they have nearly caught up, with a combined GDP of more than $16 trillion, just short of America’s $17.4 trillion.
Indeed, since 2000, the BRICs have been responsible for nearly a third of the rise in nominal global GDP.
But they have come down by nearly one-third over the past 12 years.
China has already built six mega-dams on the Mekong – the lifeblood for continental Southeast Asia – with its latest addition being the 254-meter-high Nuozhadu Dam, whose gargantuan reservoir is designed to hold nearly 22 billion cubic meters of water.
The Queen’s Chinese Guests from HellNEW YORK – “Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, but she doesn’t have a lot to say,” Paul McCartney sang nearly a half-century ago.
As for the queen, her joint ride down London’s Mall with Xi in a horse-drawn carriage was apparently nearly crashed by a Chinese security official posing as an official translator.
Nearly a month later, however, all the demonetization drive has achieved is severe economic disruption.
A survey published in early January estimated recent out-migration at four million people, nearly as many as from Syria.
Before the revolution, Libya produced nearly 1.6 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for 96% of the country’s export earnings.
In other words, nearly one in five Indians suffers from chronic hunger.
Nearly 44% of children under the age of five are malnourished – 7% of whom die each year.
The Third World Center for Water Management estimates that nearly 40% of food produced annually in India is lost, mainly during harvesting and distribution.
Nearly nine years later, in 2013, an agreement “in principle” was reached.
But, while “capitalism” – defined as an economic system built on private ownership of property – clearly has prevailed, there are many differences among the nearly 200 countries that now practice it in some form.
Still, until nearly the very end, I feared that the authorities would "trick" us in some way, and I was not personally eager to participate in the new political structures.
One of the most glaring features of this pattern is the disparity between China’s GDP growth, which has averaged nearly 10% annually over the last few decades, and its employment growth, which has amounted to just 1-2% annually.
This is the story of recent trouble in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Korea, and nearly all emerging markets.
Between January and October 1987, the Fed pushed up the effective federal funds rate by nearly 100 basis points, making it more expensive to borrow and purchase shares.
It has nearly 100,000 peacekeepers, police, and combat troops on the ground in the world’s hot spots, helping to consolidate peace.
With expanded meat consumption, soybean production alone would nearly double, implying a proportional increase in the use of inputs like land, fertilizer, pesticides, and water.
By the end of this decade, according to the US Energy Information Administration, nearly half of the crude oil that America consumes will be produced at home, while 82% will come from the US side of the Atlantic.
Since 1990, the number of women dying as a result of childbirth has been nearly halved, to 289,000 per year.
We should congratulate ourselves for nearly halving the maternal death rate since 1990.
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