Quarter
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And we succeeded in planting this memory in the minds of about a
quarter
of our subjects.
The model that at least I was brought up in and a lot of us doing business were brought up in was one which talked about what I call the three G's of growth: growth that is consistent,
quarter
on quarter; growth that is competitive, better than the other person; and growth that is profitable, so you continue to make more and more shareholder value.
As you can see in blue, huge areas of our world are barely seen, less than once a year, and even the areas that are seen most frequently, those in red, are seen at best once a
quarter.
They learn that if you just stare at a student and raise your eyebrow about a
quarter
of an inch, you don't have to say a word because they know that that means that you want more.
I labored in that vineyard for a
quarter
century before making my way to a little kingdom of the just in upstate South Carolina, a Methodist-affiliated institution of higher learning called Wofford College.
We've been around as Homo sapiens — that's a rather generous definition, sapiens — for perhaps a
quarter
of a million years, a
quarter
of a million.
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.
We got to know each other incredibly well through that quarter, and he took the project that he started working on in the independent study and turned it, ultimately, into a company called Play for Tomorrow, where he teaches kids from disadvantaged backgrounds how to, essentially, craft the lives they dream to live.
In the brain, that is especially critical; its intense electrical activity uses up a
quarter
of the body's entire energy supply, even though the brain accounts for only about two percent of the body's mass.
So we had a couple of thousands of followers on our Facebook page, and soon we had a
quarter
of a million followers.
That's more than a
quarter
of China's own domestic coal-fired capacity that is exported abroad.
Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one
quarter
is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the carbon.
Right now, we have a
quarter
of a million people that have signed up for ProtonMail, and these people come from everywhere, and this really shows that privacy is not just an American or a European issue, it's a global issue that impacts all of us.
We pioneered all sorts of new, flexible work methods: job shares, profit-sharing, and eventually, co-ownership when I took a
quarter
of the company into the hands of the staff at no cost to anyone but me.
Moreover, the number of people in our world who are living in extreme poverty, which is defined as living off about a dollar and a
quarter
a day, that has fallen from 50 percent, to only 15 percent.
When the cop caught up to the younger boy, he pushed him down, handcuffed him with imaginary handcuffs, took a
quarter
out of the other child's pocket, saying, "I'm seizing that."
Although humans have been around for a
quarter
million years, it was only 8,000 years ago that proto-writings began to surface.
And they also say that managing this problem costs a
quarter
of a million pounds per family per year and yet nothing changes.
Because when the government says that a family like Ella's costs a
quarter
of a million pounds a year to manage, what it really means is that this system costs a
quarter
of a million pounds a year.
Folding a paper in half, even a paper as fine as that of the Bible, 25 times would give us a paper almost a
quarter
of a mile.
Summarizing, if we fold a paper 25 times, the thickness is almost a
quarter
of a mile.
In order to ensure that customers don't have to walk too far you set up your cart a
quarter
mile south of the beach center, right in the middle of your territory.
Teddy sets up a
quarter
mile north of the center, in the middle of Teddy territory.
No one walks more than a
quarter
of a mile, and both vendors sell to half of the beachgoers.
You return to your location a
quarter
mile south of center and get the 25% of customers to the south of you.
Your original strategy, where you were each a
quarter
mile from the middle of the beach, didn't last, because it wasn't a Nash Equilibrium.
The first half of the journey takes half an hour, the next part takes
quarter
of an hour, the third part takes an eighth of an hour, and so on.
So about half a million people die in the UK each year, and of those, around a
quarter
will want to be buried.
This is a
quarter
note.
One corresponds to a whole note, two to a half note, four to a
quarter
note, and eight to an eighth note, and so on.
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