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For nearly 60 years, the Atlantic partnership has been a force for good, not only for Europe and North America, but for the world.
The artificial cardiac pacemaker has been in use for nearly 60 years.
Not only is immigration relevant to economic power, but, given that nearly all developed countries are aging and face a burden of providing for older generations, it could help reduce the sharpness of the policy problem.
In the 1980 wave election, when Ronald Reagan and the Republican ticket overwhelmed President Jimmy Carter and toppled several liberal Democrats in the Senate, the presidential race was nearly tied until the final weekend.
While global health outcomes – a key focus of the MDGs – have improved dramatically in recent years, progress on education worldwide has not been nearly as satisfactory.
But the franc-zone countries did not fare nearly so well.
In the 1960s, unemployment nearly disappeared in several European countries, but without rising inflation.
Other countries have long been more nearly corporatist – Italy, Germany, Austria and Japan.
The polls, involving nearly 15,000 respondents, were conducted in 16 countries, representing 58% of the world’s population: Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States.
But despite the price that President Putin is paying at home for his pro-Western policies--which are not nearly as popular in Russia as they are in the West--scant economic rewards, particularly from the European Union, have appeared.
The deep recession that followed the near-collapse of the global financial system in 2008 caught nearly everyone by surprise – including the experts who were presumably the best equipped to see it coming.
The General Administration of Quality and Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine conducted a survey and reported that nearly one-fifth of all products made in China for domestic use did not measure up to safety and quality standards.
Internally, nationalism has been gaining strength in nearly all EU member states; externally, Russia is playing great-power politics and pushing for a “Eurasian Union” – a euphemism for renewed Russian dominance over Eastern Europe – as an alternative to the EU.
The fact that nearly half of all Arabs depend on freshwater inflows from non-Arab countries, including Turkey and the upstream states on the Nile River, may serve to exacerbate water insecurity further.
Nearly 16 million Aadhaar numbers were accidentally exposed by the Ministry of Rural Development.
He also paid nearly $20,000 for a python jacket, but the ostrich jacket, with white satin lining, caught the public’s imagination.
But the prosecutors’ real goal was to show that Manafort paid for these goods – nearly $1 million in suits from the world’s most expensive tailors, high-priced antique rugs, lamps, and electronic equipment – by wire transfers from offshore bank accounts, such as one in Cyprus.
Nuclear-armed nations built nearly 100,000 nuclear weapons, bearing the explosive power of about a million six hundred thousand Hiroshima-size bombs.
But by now, the decline has become nearly universal, with huge implications for global asset markets.
In 2012, for example, nearly half of the provinces reported GDP shares for capital formation of more than 60%; six exceeded 80%.
Global Finance and Global WarmingNEW DELHI/LONDON – Since 2008, when the global financial crisis nearly brought down the world economy, financial reform has been among the top items on policymakers’ agendas.
Surveys among US college students estimated that 20% fit criteria for depression and anxiety in 2010, and that nearly 25% fit these criteria in 2012.
Eisenhower declined, partly because he did not particularly like or trust Nixon, but mostly because he thought it was important to hand over a more nearly balanced budget to his successor.
So far, it has been a remarkable success, with nearly 100 ozone-destroying chemicals phased out over the past three decades.
After all, given the connectedness that characterizes today’s globalized financial and economic systems, a full recovery anywhere is virtually impossible without a broad-based recovery nearly everywhere.
Though the maternal death rate has declined globally by nearly half since 1990, an estimated 830 women still die from pregnancy-related causes every day.
Between 2010 and 2015, maternal mortality in the state nearly doubled, and women in Texas are now more likely to die from childbirth than women in Tajikistan.
Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).
From atoms to stars, we now have a precise, operative picture of nearly all physical phenomena.
In the developing world, one girl in seven is married by the age of 15; nearly half become mothers by the age of 18.Girls attending secondary school, by contrast, are much less likely to marry and bear children before reaching adulthood.
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