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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points twice, wiping out all the gains that the bull market had racked up for the year so far.
Likewise,
twice
in the first half of the twentieth century, in response to an increasingly radical Catalan clerisy, the region’s industrialists ended up supporting authoritarian solutions from the Spanish government.
The failure to include Indonesia, which has almost
twice
as many Muslims as the entire Middle East, is striking not only because of its size: Whereas most countries in the alliance are ruled by despots or autocrats, Indonesia is a robust democracy.
Each year, Chinese universities award more PhD’s in science and engineering than US institutions do – and more than
twice
as many undergraduate degrees in these fields.
Brazil and Italy have met
twice
in World Cup finals (1970 and 1994) and both times Brazil outperformed Italy.
This is a brutal process – the men are strapped onto restraint chairs
twice
a day and force-fed, in a facility that I witnessed.
Chidambaram, a Harvard-trained lawyer who has held the finance portfolio
twice
before, is committed to increasing growth and to adopting pro-market policies.
In the group of open economies, however, income growth in developing countries was almost
twice
that of developed countries(4.5%
It is a society that has reinvented itself
twice
in less than 200 years – in the nineteenth-century Meiji Restoration and after defeat in 1945.
Some 1,800 people have died as a result – more than
twice
the number of such deaths in all of 2013.
First, they unfairly benefit high flyers, who can receive up to
twice
as much in pension payments per £100 of contributions.
The event that most symbolizes the colonial carve-up is the conference that Otto von Bismarck organized in Berlin from November 1884 until February 1885, where an area
twice
the size of Germany and France, the Congo Free State, was presented as a gift to Belgium’s King Leopold II.
Thus, all current and former political prisoners, about 500,000 Buddhist monks, and more than
twice
as many members of ethnic minority groups living close to the borders were banned from the vote.
They frequently assume that working
twice
as hard as those around them – while never speaking up for their own worth or accomplishments – will generate a raise because an authority figure will notice.
Current polls show that the PiS’s popularity has risen to around 40% – more than
twice
that of the previous ruling party, Civic Platform.
And by the year 2000, when the US consumer price index was more than
twice
its level in 1980, the price of gold had fallen to about $300 an ounce.
History and present practices suggest they should think
twice
before doing so.
Taiwan has been a major supplier of foreign capital flowing into China, contributing
twice
as much as the US and accounting roughly for 20% of China's total inflows.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, trade grew
twice
as fast as GDP, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
That London rather than New York still dominated in 1914, when the US economy was already more than
twice
the size of Britain’s, reflected the latter’s head start as an industrial power, an exporter, and a foreign investor.
One year ago, she died from complications in childbirth, a killer that every month takes
twice
as many lives as the entire Ebola epidemic.
Bibi’s Big SurpriseNEW YORK – Binyamin Netanyahu proved the pollsters wrong – not once, but
twice.
The party retained control of the Senate, even though more than
twice
as many Republican seats were up for reelection than Democratic seats, and it lost just a handful of House seats, far fewer than the 20 predicted.
She replied: “Only
twice
in my career have I disagreed with the verdict of my jury.”
This trend is expected to continue, with annual population growth in the GCC averaging 1.8% –
twice
the average for emerging markets.
Indeed, while this process has become easier in Europe in recent years, the World Bank estimates that it still takes
twice
as long to start up a small business in Greece and much of the rest of the EU as it does in the US – and four times as long in Spain.
Compared with all the other political regimes known to mankind, democracy represents ethical progress
twice
over: first, because it is based on respect for human rights; and secondly, because the universal suffrage that modern democracy embraces prohibits neglecting or oppressing minorities.
These sorts of benefits are, in economic terms, worth at least
twice
as much as the cost of the program – the main expense is the cash that is transferred to households.
By 2100, Uganda’s population density could be more than
twice
India’s current level.
Just because the dollar weakened
twice
during the last two periods of Fed tightening does not prove that the same thing will happen again.
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