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Migrants change jobs
twice
a year on average, as they “grease the wheels” of European labor markets with their mobility from less to more productive jobs.
But can you step into the same river
twice?
Already, Asia’s urban areas experience
twice
as many hot days as its rural areas do – and could experience ten times as many by 2100.
This year’s projected deficits (as a share of GDP) are estimated to be a remarkable 13.5% for the United States,
twice
the previous record at the depth of the horrific early 1980’s recession.
London’s eight million inhabitants regularly connect with almost
twice
the number of people as Cambridge’s 100,000 residents.
In fact, agriculture has the potential to reduce poverty
twice
as fast as any other sector.
As the Nobel laureate Robert Shiller pointed out two weeks before the correction, the US cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio has been higher than it is now only
twice
in the last century: at the peaks that preceded the stock-market crashes of 1929 and 2000-2002.
As a professional economist, maybe
twice
a decade I form a view that some major market is out of line…my response is to write about it, but to shift only about 5% of my portfolio.
In the Soviet Union, most dangerous criminals were kept in deportation in Siberia and the Far East, where the murder rate was
twice
as high as in the country as a whole.
Mattis himself has called the decision an “initial response” to China’s militarization of the South China Sea, which is
twice
the size of the Gulf of Mexico and 50% bigger than the Mediterranean Sea.
At that point, the consultancy McKinsey & Company projects India’s middle-class consumer market will have hit 600 million people,
twice
the size of the current US population.
With his letter, President Bush managed to punish the Palestinians twice: by making significant concessions on their behalf and by excluding them from negotiations.
On the other hand, Israel was rewarded twice: by receiving US assurances of significant Palestinian concessions, and by being relieved from paying a price in return for these concessions.
Today, some polls have him securing over 30% of the vote in the first round, more than
twice
that of other candidates.
Twice
in the twentieth century – in 1931 and again in 1969-70 – France helped to bring down the world monetary system.
Will it really be necessary for Ukrainians to repeat the Orange Revolution by again gathering in their millions to shame Yanukovych (a
twice
convicted violent felon before he entered politics) to change course?
A dollar purchased at the official rate can be sold for almost
twice
as much in the “blue” market in Argentina and a whopping ten times more in Venezuela.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Asia now accounts for almost half of the world’s arms expenditure, which is more than
twice
the total expenditure of countries in the Middle East and four times greater than that of Europe.
For example, in 1800, American purchasing power parity was
twice
that of China; by 1975 it was 30 times that of China.
Men in the lowest socioeconomic group, it turned out, were dying at a rate
twice
that of men in the highest, and the gap was growing, despite the establishment of the National Health Service.
President Putin himself campaigned
twice
for Yanukovych in Ukraine and congratulated him
twice
before the forged final results had been presented, rendering him little but ridiculous.
But they already did,
twice.
It is bigger than America’s, almost
twice
the size of China’s, and between four and five times the size of India’s.
Then, without pause, he leaps once, twice, and I gasp at the height of his grandes jetés and then gasp again because his pointed toe is heading right for a barre .
This is more than
twice
the size of the global agriculture sector and dwarfs total spending on foreign aid.
Over the longer term, population aging represents a major challenge for a social-security system that already spends, as a share of GDP, as much as developed countries, where the share of the population 65 and over is
twice
that of Brazil.
News consumers are
twice
as likely to express the most trust in local broadcast and cable news compared to social media, attesting to voters’ reliance on television journalism to inform their thinking.
But average GDP growth rates in the new members are
twice
as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.
The US Federal Reserve is furthest ahead, having already lifted rates twice, while in the Eurozone and Japan, normalization is more anticipated than experienced.
To discourage A from hurting B, the reaction of C can be important, because if A knows that C will punish him for what he does to B, he might think
twice
before hurting B.But if punishment is risky or costly for C, she may not do much to A, making A feel unconstrained.
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