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These deaths are largely driven by a few risky behaviors: tobacco smoking (second in the global ranking of risk factors), alcohol use (ranked third), obesity and poor nutrition (ranked sixth and seventh, respectively), and physical inactivity (ranked tenth).
In India, in particular, the Pakistani military – which, despite being the world’s sixth largest, would have little chance of winning a conventional war against its giant neighbor – uses its terrorist proxies to wage a clandestine war.
Plutonium-239 from a nuclear test conducted at the end of the Stone Age, for example, would have lost a mere sixth of its radioactivity by now.
Last week, at the OECD’s sixth World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy in Incheon, South Korea, the Group issued its report, Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance.
The Promise of Inclusive EducationWASHINGTON, DC – Ali Moussa and Mahmoud are sixth graders in Zanzibar.
The security interests of Georgia and the EU coincide least when it comes to the so-called “frozen conflicts” in the Kremlin-backed breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia – it is no accident that “Promoting Peaceful Resolution of Internal Conflicts” ranks only sixth among the ENP Action Plan’s priorities.
Moreover, he has suggested that the next Dalai Lama will be found in the “free world,” implying that he will be reincarnated as a Tibetan exile or in India’s Tawang district, where the sixth Dalai Lama was born in the seventeenth century.
Europe’s BargainMILAN – In July, the European Commission published its sixth report on economic, social, and territorial cohesion (a term that can be roughly translated as equality and inclusiveness).
In 2009, I was on track to become only the sixth neurosurgeon in Uganda, working at Mulago National Referral Hospital, the country’s main tertiary institution.
Korean exports, led by semiconductors and petrochemicals, have recorded positive growth for sixth consecutive months.
A sixth option – especially where a country has carried out partially sterilized intervention to prevent excessive currency appreciation – is to reduce the risk of credit and asset bubbles by imposing prudential supervision of the financial system.
At the just-concluded sixth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, held in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping called upon his Arab counterparts to upgrade their strategic relationships with China, by deepening bilateral cooperation in areas ranging from finance and energy to space technology.
The seventh Framework Program, worth some €50 billion – a 40% increase over the sixth program – is perhaps the most prominent funding source tool through which the EU supports R&D activities.
South Korea ranks 26th on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, whereas Japan ranks sixth.
Estimates of how much electricity Bitcoin mining requires vary widely – some put it as high as 30 terawatt hours per year (equivalent to Morocco’s entire electricity demand), while others suggest it’s a sixth of that.
On August 19, 2009, the sixth anniversary of the bombing that killed the United Nations representative in Baghdad, a series of spectacular attacks were carried out.
The sixth godfather of “Yamaguchi-Gumi” is now in prison until 2011.
Experts from Johns Hopkins University anticipate a sixth nuclear test at any moment.
Some 40% of the world’s 6.5 billion people live in poverty, and a sixth live in extreme poverty.
Indeed, according to the UN Environment Program’s Global Environment Outlook-4 , the world is currently experiencing a sixth wave of extinctions, triggered in large part by our failure to manage natural assets.
Here was Tunisia, ranked sixth among 135 countries in terms of improvement in its Human Development Index (HDI) over the previous four decades, ahead of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mexico, and India.
Since its sixth anniversary in 2007, Wikipedia has consistently ranked in the top ten most frequently viewed Web sites worldwide.
The Euro Grows UpOn January 1, the euro celebrated its sixth birthday.
With only 1% of the world’s population, France is the sixth largest economy, ranking fourth in international trade and third in exports of goods and services.
The section “Starting a business,” which identifies the bureaucratic and legal hurdles to incorporating and registering a new firm, ranks France in 35th place, whereas the UK ranks sixth and the US ranks third.
Why Economists Missed the Arab SpringLONDON – The sixth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisings this year came and went largely unnoticed.
Nearly two centuries ago, John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president, was wrestling with domestic demands for intervention in the Greek war for independence when he famously said that the US “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
This year, Latin America is expected to emerge from the recession that began in 2015; but it will still experience a fourth consecutive year of anemic growth – or the sixth, if one counts the slowdown that was already evident in 2012 and 2013.
Its just concluded sixth congress was held for the first time in the occupied territories, which meant that former guerrillas from Lebanon and Jordan were allowed entry by Israel.
Britain is ranked sixth in the world – one place above the United States and behind only some very pro-business countries, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
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