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This is because body weight is the sum of our organs and body tissues; and each organ or body part has its own regulatory (and thus partly genetic) basis.
Indeed, the regulation of body weight overall is determined by the sum of the specific regulatory outcomes affecting individual body components.
Because individual body components are inter-related, control of body weight seems to occur in the relationships between tissues and organs, rather than within individual components.
Adjusting weight by height squared is also likely to yield a different outcome for different organs.
In short, body weight and body fat mass may not scale to height by the same power.
The number of defaults is largely irrelevant when it comes to a country like the UK, which is politically stable, carries significant economic weight, and has an independent central bank.
Each trend is changing the world and “largely reversing the historic rise of the West since 1750, restoring Asia’s weight in the global economy, and ushering in a new era of ‘democratization’ at the international and domestic level.”
And, like an authoritarian parent, the US itself, despite its admonitions to its allies to pull their weight, is often loath to let go of its increasingly unruly dependents.
The weight of one of the world’s longest-running conflicts is resting on their thin shoulders, crushing their childhood and inflicting psychological scars that may never heal.
But Chinese strategists counter that it is America that is throwing its weight around in East Asia, reinforcing the belief that China will never be secure as long as the US controls the military perimeter that stretches from Japan to Australia.
But they often crumble under the weight of internal dissent.
Indeed, developing and emerging economies’ rapid “catch-up growth” suggests that their aggregate economic weight is about to surpass that of the advanced world.
The independent board members would constitute only a small minority, but their presence and professional expertise would give them disproportionate weight.
Now, however, that recent mixture of confidence and hope has vanished under the crushing weight of political reality.
A similar change in “economic weight” affected the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
A dynamic tax-avoiding Silicon Valley and a thriving hydrocarbon sector are not enough to offset austerity’s weight.
Nevertheless, given the effects of last December’s Asian tsunami, the weight of evidence provided by the MEA, and deforestation statistics from key forest regions, our efforts must continue.
According to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), dollars are used in nearly half of all cross-border payments, a share far greater than the weight of the US in the world economy.
This imperative has led many to demand larger contributions from Internet giants like Google, Netflix, and Facebook, which are frequently criticized for failing to pull their weight – and even lambasted as “free-riders,” intent on pillaging European assets and markets.
But first ASEAN must decide to pull its political weight, and to expend some of its political capital, to bring about a just, long-term settlement.
Today, both are looking for ways to reduce the weight of debt – and some would prefer to escape it.
More than ever, the EU must combine greater stability, financial transfers, and mutual solidarity if the entire European project is to be prevented from collapsing under the weight of the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis.
Indeed, if SWF’s continue to grow their investments are bound to permanently alter the relative weight of state and privately controlled assets in advanced economies.
Most of us are not very good at giving proper weight to future events, especially if they are uncertain.
As to Georgia and Russia, the disproportionate size, weight, and power on one side are enough to deter any return to violence.
Obama may be the leader who envisaged a premier role for the G-20; but the United States has displayed a distinct aversion to allowing emerging powers to exert the influence over multilateral institutions that their increased economic weight warrants and demands.
Such a compromise would increase the EMU’s weight both inside and outside Europe.
But when the world finally reaches the point when women are not a rarity at the tables of power, when their numbers reach a tipping point, their voices will be heard differently, and their opinions will hold more weight with the men around them.
Moreover, both have a reputation for believing that the Fed should not place excessive weight on price stability relative to unemployment.
In any case, not much weight, in my judgment, should be given to the IMF’s statistical studies of the impact of foreign aid on growth, partly because the results do not appear to be very robust.
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