Sentences with phrase «large problems in the world»

«If you want to solve really large problems in the world, unless it's a sustainable business, it probably won't scale,» she said.

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In fact, some observers believe the Asian giant — the world's third - largest economy — is finally awakening from its long slumber and confronting its deep structural problems.
But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.
«China now appears to be the largest e-waste dumping site in the world,» claims a report published in April by the global think - tank Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP).
With more than $ 4.6 trillion under management, it's the largest money manager in the world, and so economic observers take note when Chairman Larry Fink sees a problem in financial markets.
In a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says TurchIn a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says Turchin the science world, says Turchi.
Problems in China, the world's second largest economy, can crimp global growth, a big concern at a time when weak oil prices and geopolitical concerns are also clouding the outlook.
As one of the largest technology firms in the world, how to maintain sustained growth is now the biggest problem Apple is facing, and the formation of a sound app eco-chain has become a top priority.
Your problem doesn't have to be bringing in world peace but as long as it appeals to a large enough audience and is valid, you're off to a good start.
We are working on B2BX not only because we believe in the commercial success of the project, but also because of the fact that the crypto exchange, where regulated brokers and exchanges will be collected, will be able to solve a number of problems that exist in the cryptocurrency market for large institutional clients and their retail customers around the world.
When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.
The dominant modern industries which set the tone for the world system are retained in the U.S., where the large investments required are safest and where the high cost of skilled labor is not a problem because of the limited proportion of labor required by these advanced industries.
The U.S. can do something to alleviate this problem and, in the process, better prepare itself and the rest of the world to deal with their own water shortages: it can offer to finance a series of large desalination plants to greatly increase the supply of water in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
But if we understand the real problems of the real world in any depth, we will see that specifically human problems are not really separable from the larger reality in which human beings are embedded.
And economically and psychically the entire mass of Mankind, under the inexorable pressure of events and owing to the prodigious growth and speeding up of the means of communication, has found itself seized in the mould of a communal existence — large sections tightly encased in countless international organizations, the most ambitious the world has ever known; and the whole anxiously involved in the same passionate upheavals, the same problems, the same daily news....
«When you look at the dairy industry, this is a fundamental problem that hasn't yet been widely resolved,» says Brent Ogilvie, managing director at Auckland - based Engender, which is largely funded by investors in New Zealand, the world's largest dairy exporter.
It's a old player who realy don't do enything in his entire carrer.I don't want him.Wenger searching for old, cheap players, but he want to win PL, IMPOSIBLE.If he want a world class player, take Vidal, I think Juventus will sell one of it class midfielders now with Khedira come.My problem, it's the old 4 -2-3-1, the sistem that we play and simply doesn't work anymore, not with lazy players like Ozil and worst strikers like Giroud.I think we can swamp Ozil with Gotze (he is younger, work more and can play CM to if we need to), and maybe buy Sterling (for his speed and great cover of a large area of pich when the team need it).
Being in the Times is like being handed the world's largest megaphone, and for the last few days I've been tied up in knots over how my piece in Saturday's paper, «The Real Problem with Lunch,» was going to be received.
This car is one of the most common in the world, two Swedish rear facing seats in the rear seat with plenty of room in the front is no problem (see photos above, click for larger size).
The report details, for example, how registered dietitians can earn continuing education units from Coca - Cola, in which they learn that sugar is not a problem for children and how Nestlé, the world's largest food company can pay $ 50,000 to host a two - hour «nutrition symposium» at the Academy's annual meeting.
This mentality denies any systemic problem with colonialism, including the role of brute force in establishing, consolidating and holding on to the largest empire the world had ever seen.
This check ✔ simply assured that no president / Prime minister gains too much power to undermine democracy as not putting any term limits have caused disastrous affects as seen in past through multiple examples, but not putting any term limits also hasn't caused any major problem in many countries such as India - the world's largest democracy.
«You look at the largest investment in public services since the second world war, the creation of whole new services like Sure Start, the minimum wage, progress on gay rights, changes on paternity leave, the right to join a union, even things that have been difficult that used to cause me problems in government like the Human Rights Act — that is a massive progressive agenda we have delivered.»
In a rational world this may not be a problem, but humans aren't always rational and a small tax based off of wealth can have a disproportionately large affect on humans tendency to save.
In 2008, a group of airlines came to Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company, with a big problem.
«Climate change is arguably the largest collective - action problem the world has ever faced,» said lead author Nick Obradovich, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science in UC San Diego's Division of Social Sciences.
Energy subsidies are also exacerbating pollution problems in many of the world's large cities and discouraging investment in newer, cleaner energy sources, states the IMF working paper titled, «How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?&rlarge cities and discouraging investment in newer, cleaner energy sources, states the IMF working paper titled, «How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?&rLarge Are Global Energy Subsidies?»
Large parts of the world have problems with salt causing agricultural land to be unusable, but the new sensors allow the level of salt to be measured in real time, rather than once every few months as was previously the case.
The CarbFix pilot program aims to resolve this problem by capturing carbon dioxide from the Hellisheiði Power Station, Iceland's largest geothermal heat and energy facility and the second - largest in the world.
It crops up in big cities occasionally and it gets back on the radar, but out there in the world at large, TB is still a huge problem.
«Houston, for example, is home to one of the largest populations of engineers of any city in the world and is accustomed to engineering its way out of problems without conducting a lot of urban land use planning,» Berke said.
The campaign in Chittagong confirmed our suspicion that there is a similar problem associated with shipbreaking, as with similar findings made in poor countries that receive large amounts of electrical and electronic waste from the rich world.
Why It Matters: With a population of more than 16 million, Beijing is one of the largest cities in the world, with an air quality problem to match.
Many researchers theorize that our current western diet contains too large a percentage of the pro-inflammatory omega - 6 fatty acids in comparison to other less - inflammatory omega - 6 and omega - 3 fatty acids, and this imbalance contributes to most of the modern world's inflammatory problems (arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimers, Crohn's disease, and rosacea, amongst others).
If sugar or carbs were causing problems for the rural Chinese, they would be the largest consumers of insulin shots in the world, but they're not.
The problem with the film isn't in its placement in the realm of science fiction films as much as its placement in the real world, where the plot necessitates a triple - jump for every leap in logic to get us from point A to Z. For instance, the film pushes forward the notion that scientists don't give any thought or research whatsoever to the ramifications of their inventions before unleashing them on the world at large.
Digital technologies have transformed our lives because: • We can store, process and transmit data in digital form faster, and on a larger scale, than any other technology in human history (speaking, writing, or printing) • We can describe a wide range of problems for the data we can collect or create, solve them by manipulating that data, and (sometimes) actuate change in the physical world
The unexpected problems that arose in Los Angeles as the country's second - largest school district rolled out an ambitious 1 - to - 1 and digital curriculum initiative are now legendary in the ed - tech world.
School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.
At this academically high - performing school, students regularly tackle real - world problems in the larger community.
Problem is this is still wrongly planned by German car vendors, and this is No surprise for me, as they are those owning the Mid-Range and High end car market today, and they «control» that by having the best largest and most reliable ICE engines and Gearboxes and transmissions, that will not be needed in the new world..
While the United States may have one of the largest economies in the world, the country has its fair share of problems.
2) is an interesting academic point, but I don't think it really causes much problem in the real world... plenty of v large & successful companies (& investment companies) out there who don't pay a dividend!
The number one problem plaguing the commercial dog - breeding world is the large number of commercial kennels that operate in violation of the AWA without being licensed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
«The huge number of unwanted pets in the world is a large and growing problem.
The goal is to build a demonstration foster program, the largest foster program in the world, and get as many animals as possible out of the shelter and into foster before behavior problems set in.
After the problems we'd had with noise in our Arequipa apartment, we knew we wanted a reliable guarantee against such things for the place we picked in Lima, so we opted to go through Airbnb, one of the largest apartment rental websites that covers destinations all over the world and relies on a system of reviews between hosts and guests, similar to Couchsurfing.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize) was put on the Danger List mainly because of the problem of mangrove cutting and excessive development in the property which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996 as the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, with offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries.
No, it's that this throws into light a large problem among our gaming world, and of journalism in general; journalism is no longer honest.
For gamers experienced in the Lego universe, Lego Batman 2 takes a step forward with the large open world while remaining satisfying and familiar with the in - game problem solving and collecting achievements.
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