Sentences with phrase «little threat except»

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We don't know (from what's been published here) how many of 100kers crank out six to twelve short books per year, or write formulaic books that require little change from one to the next except location, names, type of threat / protagonist, etc..

Looking back, we enjoy the benefit of hindsight... but let's not under - estimate the existential threat to the company at the time: Operating free cash flow was minimal, there was little opportunity to realise assets (except at fire - sale prices) in 2009 - 11, almost EUR 400 million of net losses, investment write - downs & goodwill impairments were recorded in the five years ending in 2012 (which actually understates a near - 85 % collapse in net equity), as the banks kept shrinking their committed facilities & imposing harsher terms (and seriously considering pulling the plug).

If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global climate today is geologically unremarkable in every single way except that we happen to be living in it instead of analyzing it in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on climate science.

Meanwhile Dr Julian Little, a spokesman for Bayer CropScience, makers of imidacloprid, argued that folks should be focusing on diseases and parasites, not pesticides — except, of course, that these findings suggest that there's an interaction between these related threats.