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Community health workers in each of Rwanda’s 15,000 villages, as well as nurses at health centers across the country, periodically measure the
weight
and height of each child under the age of five, referring for help those identified as malnourished or at risk.
But an initiative like the Global Apollo program will succeed only if the world’s emerging powers, such as China and India, throw their
weight
behind it.
Biology can explain that we gain
weight
when we consume more calories than we burn.
If I consume fewer calories and exercise more, I should lose
weight.
This created a two-speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the
weight
of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead.
Given the region’s economic weight, this would create significant risks for global markets and international security.
It is hard to imagine that particular US-China contrast carrying
weight
now, as photos of Trump’s garish Manhattan penthouse and opulent Mar-a-Lago parties continue to emerge.
These companies are “Europeanizing” fast, and the relative
weight
of their home base is declining even faster.
But will he give infinitely more
weight
to Americans’ interests than he does to the interests of anyone else?
Rightly or wrongly, most of us do give much more
weight
to our own interests, and those of our children and other close relatives and friends, than we do to the interests of others.
It is the Chinese who have endowed the term “financial center” with such
weight
and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.
With growth barely visible, and dangerously low inflation causing real interest rates to rise, the
weight
of public and private debt has grown very heavy, and many fear that another lost decade is at hand.
Second, the relative
weight
and importance of developing nations in the global economy will have risen even more.
Moreover, high oil prices have filled the national treasury, and Iran is benefiting from the opportunity created by America’s being bogged down in Iraq and the growing international
weight
of Russia and China.
Significantly, the European Union has thrown its
weight
behind the tax and urged the IMF to pursue it.
In Putin’s view, the Soviet Union collapsed under the
weight
of its debts.
To be sure, the show of US and European support after the nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, England, might suggest that Britain is still punching above its
weight.
Yes, Europe currently punches below its
weight.
After the 2008 financial crisis, the eurozone’s weakest banks quickly buckled under the
weight
of their bad loans, and then threatened to drag their respective governments down with them.
There are several alternatives, such as the blended wing body and strut/truss braced wings, which offer major potential increases in lift-to-drag ratio and improvements in structural
weight
fraction.
In fact, we believe it is important to prepare for the collapse of EU under the
weight
of its leaders’ hubris.
Alternatively, Livni could concede victory to Netanyahu despite her small electoral advantage, serve in his government, and pull her
weight
in favor of moderation.
Individually, Southeast Asia’s countries carry little weight; collectively, however, they represent almost a tenth of the world’s population and nearly 5% of its GDP.
It must now back up its growing
weight
in the Middle East with political initiative.
Clearly, the lesson is that governments need to attach less
weight
to spending that cannot one day be cut.
The ECB is already carrying too much
weight.
Still, it is right to ask if the American way of life will survive the twenty-first century, and, if it does, whether it will survive in America or migrate elsewhere as the US economy and political system collapse under the accumulated
weight
of decades of myopic national leadership and squandered opportunities.
Rivero, who has lost much weight, has circulatory problems, and Espinosa suffers from a worsening liver disease.
Most Latin American countries feature strong economic fundamentals, and part of their inflation merely reflects a high
weight
for food (much higher than in advanced economies) in their calculations of the consumer price index.
These deep Israeli emotions are the product of the encounter between the
weight
of the past and the “facility” of the present.
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