Sentences with phrase «nation than any nation»

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These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

... As a nation, we have been trained to look past the bad behavior of our rudest guests, especially the uninvited ones, and rather than cause a scene, we shall just go about our daily business as if nothing has happened.

But we have got to get together as a nation, do better than we are doing to educate these kids because it's getting worse and worse and worse.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

In the U.S., the number of jobs started growing at a slower rate than the nation's productivity around 2000, a trend economists refer to as decoupling.

HOW is it possible for 11 nations that, on a combined basis, command very little more than 15 pert cent of the world's capitalisation, hold the rest of the world to ransom?

Network, learn and be inspired: CEO.org is hosting their annual National Conference where more than 1,500 students from around the nation will come to «network, learn and be inspired to pursue their entrepreneurial pursuits.»

When that happens, the demographic pinch is likely to force China's economy to switch from low - cost exporter to advanced welfare state faster than any large nation has ever done before.

The IMF forecast issued this week for the Middle East projects that energy - importing nations including Egypt will grow more strongly in the years ahead than energy exporters including Saudi Arabia, though both will experience GDP growth.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

Western Australia is the only state in the nation expecting better Christmas trading than last year, according to a report released today.

U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

The nation's biggest labour market has more people working at low wages than any other big economic engine of Canada (Quebec, B.C., Alberta)

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

This possibly explains why other non-nuclear nations play a greater role in the international community and enjoy a higher standard of living than Russia, which prioritizes nuclear weapons above other things like investing in education or infrastructure.

Viral Nation has cultivated a stable of more than a thousand social - media stars, and cut deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for major brands.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

Australia was one of 11 nations that signed on to the successor to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal in Chile last night, just more than a year after the United States pulled out of the original deal.

The report was released on March 14, less than a week before the United Nations celebrates World Happiness Day on March 20.

Since then, their Toronto - based startup, Viral Nation, has evolved into one of the largest social - media marketing firms in the world, on track to generate more than $ 15 million (U.S.) in 2018 sales, according to the founders.

WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

Though America navigated the post-2008 global financial crisis era better than many nations, our stagnant employment market is a sign of our enduring problems.

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Fast - forward 15 years, and Alibaba drives 80 percent of China's online sales and accounts for more than half of the nation's parcel deliveries, yielding profits that exceed those of Amazon and eBay combined.

But one nation seems to be getting out in front of that challenge better than most — and that's China.

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

«The country, now more than ever, is looking for innovations that can improve care and increase efficiencies,» says Robert Grajewski, president of Edison Nation Medical.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Fewer than 100 miles of ocean separate the U.S. and Cuba, but the nations have spent the last five decades in different worlds.

A survey of the 1997 Inc. 500 revealed that casual or «business casual» dress is standard at more than one - third of the nation's fastest - growing privately held companies.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

As governor of the nation, Trump would need to surround himself with politically experienced people and be willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans who hold different opinions and values than he does in order to get things done.

Though they admit comparisons are tricky, economists generally view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in many other wealthy nations.

Both the provincial and federal governments have pledged to secure an LNG niche for B.C. in Asia, and British Columbians, including First Nations have been a lot friendlier to natural gas than to Alberta's oilsands.

In 2012, the city filed for bankruptcy and had the nation's highest foreclosure rate at more than four times the US average, according to RealtyTrac.

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

He said his administration is just getting started and «will work tirelessly to make good on our promise to the working people who built our Nation and deliver historic tax cuts and reforms — the rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before.»

«The California Air Resources Board reaffirmed its own set of regulatory standards for the automotive industry, setting it and 12 other mostly East and West Coast states that follow its lead on a different path than the rest of the nation.»

But while 2014 predictions bode well for host nation Russia's performance — forecast to achieve a total haul of 25 medals, 10 more than their total in the last winter games in 2010 — the same can not be said for the U.K. team.

Last year, it installed more wind capacity than any other nation — an astounding 16.5 gigawatts.

Organized by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI), the UAE Innovation Month seeks to foster innovation with more than 1,000 activities across the nation from February 1 - 28, 2018.

Those lacking paid work are not just impoverished; they lose the skills and will to work, a loss to the nation in more than economic vitality.

Gore, who formerly served as the entrepreneur - in - residence for the United Nations Foundation, boiled it down even further: «More than skillsets, I worry about time.

But that was a more shrewd than conciliatory strategy on the government's part: Today marks the 86th birthday of the nation's much adored monarch, King Bhumibol, an occasion that calls for sober celebration and peace.

The point is that the nation has received zero value from trillions in quantitative easing, and so if even 10 % of the 130 million households do something useful with their $ 10,000 in cash then that would be one heck of a lot more than we've gotten from the trillions thrown down the rathole of a venal, corrupted, insolvent banking sector.

«We need to look no further than our nation's 20 million veterans, 20 % of whom, according to a 2017 American Legion survey, reportedly use cannabis to self - treat PTSD, chronic pain, and other ailments,» said Boehner and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, a libertarian who is also joining Acreage's board of advisors.