Quarter
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And the coal industries and the oil industries spent a
quarter
of a billion dollars in the last calendar year promoting clean coal, which is an oxymoron.
For example, a
quarter
of all the seafood marketed in the US is falsely labeled.
I would say it probably measures ... a
quarter
of a millimeter.
Whereas when my oldest son, who works for Google, he should develop by quarter, or by half-year.
If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a
quarter.
I'm going to show you what happens when you put a
quarter
on the machine.
Around the world, automotive is
quarter
the manufacturing sector.
The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a
quarter
acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.
In other words, that risk on the
quarter
acre needed to be repaid in a single harvest, or else they wouldn't take the risk.
What I mean is with the profits from the first
quarter
acre, the farmers could buy a second and a third and a fourth.
All of the ones I discussed have reached at least a
quarter
million people.
Food production is currently responsible for one
quarter
of greenhouse gas emissions.
And illiteracy has gone down, from a half to about a
quarter
of the people on Earth.
Take a beer mat and rotate it by a
quarter
of a turn, then flip it.
Nothing to do with football, but because of the fact that there are two places where you can rotate by a
quarter
of a turn, and one by half a turn.
And the rate of technological evolution speeds up, so a mere
quarter
of a century after this, you get this, OK. (Laughter) And this.
I used to be in the upper
quarter
of all courses I attended.
But in St. John's, I was in the lower
quarter.
Can't we just cut it in half or a
quarter?
So, ultimately, everybody's looking at you, 200 people at seven in the morning who got there at
quarter
to seven, and you arrived at seven, and everybody's saying, "Hey.
Intel's fourth
quarter
earnings: 10.8 billion.
When it comes time to sheetrock, if you use EcoRock it's about a
quarter
of the embodied energy of standard sheetrock.
And yet, only a
quarter
of kids at risk sleep under a net.
And then you read in the paper a few weeks later, "Oh, by the way, a
quarter
of those died."
Well, that's what happened in the Indian Ocean during the 1998 El Nino, an area vastly greater than the size of North America and Europe, when 80 percent of all the corals bleached and a
quarter
of them died.
So we have a
quarter
of the penguins that we did 40 years ago.
And this is great because, you know, for a quarter, you can play this for a long time.
And it represents a
quarter
of the total global assets managed in the world.
Corals are, you know, the home to about a
quarter
of all marine species.
We should be talking about half, a quarter, one-tenth the energy content.
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