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Of the 25 most murderous cities in the world, a staggering 23 are in Latin America.
The cost could be a staggering $10 trillion.
In one study of mothers and their babies in Bangladesh, researchers recorded a staggering 63% reduction in influenza cases among infants born to vaccinated mothers, a 36% reduction in the number of serious respiratory illnesses for mothers, and a 29% reduction in such illnesses among infants.
For those who know Russia, this is a staggering turn of events.
In 2015, OECD countries spent an average of 3.2% of their total health-care expenditures on administration and bureaucracy; in the US, it was a staggering 8.3%.
The incidence of bribery was high, with a staggering 42% of reported bribes paid to the judiciary.
The number of obstacles faced by scientists and public health experts in the race to contain deadly infectious diseases is staggering.
Beyond climate pollution, a staggering 60% of all biodiversity loss is attributable to land-use changes from animal cultivation, and as much as 80% of all land in farming is devoted either to raising animals or to growing their feed.
America is paying an astounding $51 billion per year to station 140,000 troops in the country, a staggering cost of around $360,000 per soldier per year.
Transfers of US-dollar bank balances average a staggering $2.7 trillion per day, yet are routinely settled through the use of standardized banking and communications protocols.
However, staggering levels of corruption under Diem and his US-backed successors, and the replacement of the military’s most competent commanders with Diem’s cronies, ultimately led to the rout of the South Vietnamese Army.
Yet the cost of the Kyoto Protocol would be a staggering $180 billion a year.
This has generated apprehension about property markets, and fear that local governments could default on part of their staggering debt of $1.65 trillion.
The returns from money spent on strengthening tax systems can be staggering.
Russians are reacting not merely to the strains of economic crisis and social change, but to staggering government corruption.
Yes, there have been many problems, notably bouts of staggering inequality and increasingly horrific wars.
A 50% reduction would save a staggering $7.5 trillion.
Hu pledged to replace Deng’s elitist ethos of “letting one part of the population get rich first”– a policy that has produced a staggering wealth gap – with a more egalitarian approach.
Because of this, Americans can’t afford to take even the minutest of chances with their ports – the consequences of error being too staggering to contemplate.
On the financial side, however, the magnitude of the chaos is staggering: mammoth failures of risk management on the part of highly leveraged financial institutions that must be first-rate risk managers in order to survive.
Even in the far northern reaches of the Reef, long at a sufficient distance from human pressures like coastal development to preserve, to a large extent, coral health, a staggering 50% of the coral has died.
Last year, an estimated 3.6 million people infected with TB were unable to access treatment, a staggering gap in coverage that must be quickly closed.
At the beginning of my premiership, I launched what observers have called “Abenomics,” because only in my country had the nominal wage level remained in negative territory for a staggering length of time.
These are staggering figures, even for a country with a billion people and a tertiary-education enrollment rate that is one-third that of advanced economies.
Worse, boosting social spending will contribute little to resolving the country’s staggering 17.5% rate of unemployment – most of it structural –while any hope of quick euro adoption will be dashed.
And, though the costs of climate damage are staggering, scientific research indicates that mitigation costs are manageable.
The reversal of bank lending is staggering.
In Spain and Greece, unemployment is approaching 30%, while youth unemployment is nearing a staggering 60%.
Making Sense of China’s Growth ModelSHANGHAI – Although China’s economy has expanded at a staggering pace over the last three decades, its growth model is now widely agreed to be exhausted.
With the world facing a serious water crisis, rapidly increasing global temperatures, staggering population growth, and growing health problems like coronary disease, this must change – and fast.
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