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China is now the world’s second-largest economy and accounts for nearly half of global growth.
For nearly 100 years, the ICM has advocated for women by supporting the midwives who protect them.
As a result of the decision, outside spending in the 2016 election cycle reached nearly $1.4 billion in 2016, compared less than $100 million in the 2006 cycle.
Nearly all the major institutional reforms, such as strengthening the legislature, holding village elections, and building a modern legal system, were launched in the 1980’s.
Soon after his victory, Trump took a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan, thereby breaking with nearly 40 years of diplomatic orthodoxy.
Campaign spending on political advertising is expected to top $5 billion in 2016, nearly quadruple the total in 2008.
The 168 stations owned or operated today by Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest of the five, are a case in point;Sinclair broadcasts in 81 local markets, reaching nearly 40% of the US population.
Federal regulations allow media companies to own multiple stations in a single market, and in nearly half of them, media companies own or manage at least two.
In four of the television markets the researchers assessed, nearly 100% of the stories broadcast by “news sharing” stations used the same videos and scripts.
In Denver, for example, local stations took in $6.5 million to air nearly 5,000 ads paid for by the 2012 presidential candidates’ political action committees (ostensibly independent fund-raising groups that shield their donors’ identity).
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
Currently, India has a window of opportunity, nearly unique in nature, thanks to a huge demographic dividend: almost 60% of the country’s population is below the age of 30.
Recent research conducted at the University of Oxford found that from China to the United Kingdom, people facing economic hardship – even children – experience a nearly identical assault on their pride and self-esteem.
Xinjiang covers nearly 650,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers), but it is home to only 21 million people, many of whom are members of nomadic tribes.
Nearly five years after Rouhani’s election, Iran’s banking system is still insolvent.
In the Nordic countries, by contrast, the poorest 20% of households receive nearly 10% of total income, putting them at roughly one-half of the national average.
During the nearly three decades since the “one-child” policy was introduced, live births have dropped from 22.5 million per year in the early 1980’s to around 16-17 million by the middle of this decade.
No one is sure how much money the Venezuelan regime pumped into Nicaragua, but one hears estimates from reputable sources of around $500 million a year for nearly a decade.
Eventually, however, the uncertainty created by these CDOs nearly brought down the entire US banking system.
Nearly a decade after succeeding Fahd, Abdullah is using his absolute power in other ways as well.
But a 30-year-old in 2044 who experiences only half the average growth rate will still have a real income that is nearly 30% higher than the average in 2014.
GDP in nearly all advanced economies is currently far below pre-crisis projections, yet few expect the gap ever to be bridged.
If it had, it probably would not have taken the Kremlin nearly two decades to strike back.
Nearly a decade ago, Novartis helped develop the gold standard in pediatric antimalarial medicine, and we have donated more than 350 million doses since 2009.
Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts – the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.
Since the beginning of the century, more than a million people have died in storms like Hagupit and other major disasters, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with economic damage totaling nearly $2 trillion.
For example, people were really agitated when the Dow dropped 3.8% on December 6, 1928, nearly a year before the famous 13.5% crash on Monday, October 29, 1929.
After February 27, 2007, it looked as if the markets were settling down, and the VIX measure of stock market volatility had fallen back nearly to earlier levels.
But others, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, are in some circumstances already cost competitive – or nearly cost competitive – with fossil fuels.
Anyone familiar with emerging-market meltdowns knows that a financial crisis nearly always follows a fiscal crisis.
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