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One can only hope that America’s national political leaders, looking ahead, will perform more rationally than they have over the past ten years.
It adulterated nuclear-related exports from European vendors to perform poorly during operation.
Other studies have shown that women perform better under stress, often making smarter decisions.
In other words, if the world economy is to perform at potential – which can mean growth rates of, say, 2.5-3% in the US and Europe, together with 5-6% growth in the emerging economies – we need to reverse some of today’s most powerful trends.
Gehrig suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common motor-neuron disease (MND) – a degenerative disorder characterized by the death of the nerve cells by which the brain activates muscles to perform any activity, from swallowing to walking.
This means that, if KMET continues to provide abortion services to women in Kenya, where 30-40% of hospitalizations of women are associated with unsafe abortions, it will lose the funding it needs to perform the similarly lifesaving work of teaching doctors how to handle complications associated with childbirth.
It also needs time to negotiate with the international oil companies and neighboring countries, to perform technical and feasibility studies, and to reconstruct, rehabilitate, and explore its oil fields.
Unfortunately, sometimes prices fail to perform this signaling function properly, as the dot-com and housing bubbles in recent years showed.
Even then, he had to go to Belize, in Central America, to find a surgeon willing to perform the operation.
Today’s democratic governments perform poorly, and their future remains very much in doubt.
Because men are more likely to perform wage labor or farm cash crops, a climate-driven event like drought may cost them their wages and force them to move to cities to find employment.
And they can perform extremely repetitive or detail-oriented tasks – which are better suited to robots than humans.
The right kinds are those that perform an ecological service by burning landscapes properly – and that stay in their place.
America, as the most powerful and ethical country in the world, has a unique responsibility to perform.”
One Brazilian startup’s tax-management software, for example, can perform in seconds operations that would demand thousands of billable hours from an army of accountants.
Instead, one could perform pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to identify a normal embryo (the parents’ eggs and sperm would produce both affected and unaffected embryos), and then implant it in the uterus.
More fundamentally, the rush to beat TV by breaking stories has weakened journalists’ incentive to perform due diligence, in terms of researching stories and verifying claims.
Reforms that succeed in one setting may perform poorly or fail completely in others.
What is least appreciated of all is how cost-effectively these agencies – for all their limitations – perform overall, in both absolute and comparative terms.
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Bangladesh-based organization BRAC, Save the Children International, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria are among a dozen or so organizations that perform well across the board.
But because such information sharing is achievable only through quantum interference, these same equations also drastically limit the types of task that quantum computation should be able to perform, or speed up.
As a result, the Dutch welfare system now requires beneficiaries to show proof of an active job search prior to eligibility; to perform work or volunteer community service while receiving benefits; and to take a job even if it requires a long commute.
Universities perform their natural economic function when academics speak and write plainly, demystify jargon, present their ideas in alternative media and stress applications to domains that do not concern the academics themselves.
The idea that stocks will perform well in the future has many promoters today, especially among those trying to sell investments in stocks.
But most people don’t believe that the stock market will perform so well in the future.
The world waits anxiously to see how it will perform when it meets again in Seoul this November.
While exports did indeed perform very well, Iceland’s main exports are natural resources (fish and aluminum), demand for which held up well during the post-2008 global crisis.
As a first step, governments should survey pensioners to determine their competencies and the kind of community work they would like to perform.
Meanwhile, emerging economies have continued to perform well.
So long as external demand holds up – and recent growth numbers from China and the US are positive in this regard – Europe’s exports should continue to perform well.
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