That it gets such a small degree of media attention is a puzzle.

Low level radiation is a really subtle issue.

With such small audiences, they are all but irrelevant.

That is no small reason for optimism in a country torn apart by decades of violence.

The biggest factor is the massive cost and the tiny reward.

France s meager growth is surprising. Until recently, the economy was doing fairly well, outperforming many EU countries.

The Committee expressed concern about the small impact of the Gender Equality Bureau.

Chinese reserves invested in these conservative financial instruments are relatively safe, but they yield little return.

Given l Unione s razor thin majority in the upper house, the most likely outcome is paralysis.

Compare that to the 180 billion cost of implementing the Kyoto Protocol, which will have virtually no effect.

By 1980, his meager 1970 income of 50,000 had increased to, say, 50 million.

Take away US imports and the timid growth Europe has seen in the past year would immediately disappear.

The marginally useful Committee on Conferences should be eliminated, and the Secretariat must exploit technological advances to reduce the number and cost of meetings.

Why do US fiscal conservatives care so little about government debt, relative to their counterparts in other countries?

But there are even more problems related to China s disproportionately small household income, particularly growing income disparity.

Fourth, the inadequate volume and poor quality of ODA had compromised its true potential, resulting in a misguided perception that aid would not work.

Even the small number of national companies that have grown large are relatively small when compared to the Japanese kereitsu or the Korean chaebol.

They are an enormous boon to low income consumers, partly compensating for the tepid wage growth that many of them have suffered during the past two decades.

Bachelet s margin of victory was far larger than the scant 31,000 votes that brought Lagos to power in January 2000.

A suicide bomber attacked in Israel, and, in retaliation, the Israel Defense Forces took over Ramallah, where the tiny Palestinian Sesame Street studio was located.

What we need to know is why new political leadership in democracies like France, Britain, Japan, and the US has produced so little change.

Poor growth may occur due to high winds, climate, salt spray, infertile or toxic soil, or heavy exploitation by humans.

On the surface, at least, the mini revaluation hardly seems to have compromised China s ability to bend exchange markets to its will. Foreign experts had warned that a small Yuan appreciation might be worse than none.

Do we really need to bring together so many people for so little gain and at such a high cost?

The small number of countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically is dwindling constantly, owing to a mixture of Chinese pressure and blandishments.

Al Hroub's university studies were cut short due to the First Intifada (1987 1993). On her meager monthly salary of NIS 2,500 (approximately 660), she contributes to her family and buys supplies and equipment for her classroom.

She wondered whether any research had been undertaken to explain that poor representation and whether the political parties were considering quotas to increase women's representation.

It is by far the most abundant of the two naturally occurring isotopes of helium, making up about 99.99986 of the helium on Earth.

There is no guarantee that Santos s strategy will succeed. But Colombians have earned a genuine opportunity to end their country s conflict.

In Britain back then, Philip Snowden, a small man with a narrow, pinched face, who needed a cane to walk, seemed to want to remake the British economy in his physical image.

At both the micro and the macro level, development projects and economic growth can do much to alleviate some of the structural causes of political violence.

The worst of it is that the Obama administration s budget for the 2011 provides just 1 billion per year to the Global Fund. This small sum is unworthy of US leadership.

The democracies in this region face a myriad of hazards, but one crucial challenge could be solved relatively easily the gross under representation of women in their legislative bodies.

This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka s dictatorship his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.

The scant attention given to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes in post conflict situations is a major cause of the circulation of arms as currency and a means of exchange and livelihood by ex combatants.

It was to be hoped that the structural changes in field representation envisaged in the Cooperation Agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) would not weaken UNIDO's already scarce presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In economic terms, the negligible level of intra Maghreb trade can be explained by factors such as small market size and low trade complementarity the weak match, in other words, between exports and imports.

Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all. Are famously liberal Hollywood film directors spending too much time going to anti globalization rallies?

Rising tension on the Korean Peninsula is shattering fast the glimmers of hope for re unity that followed ten years of progress under the Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo hyun governments.

The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing pressure from Israel for the international community to establish a trigger a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.

When weapons of mass destruction were not found, the US and its small (and dwindling) coalition of the willing conjured up a new rationale the struggle for democracy.

Following this victory, Edward realized that to create a force capable of retaking Jerusalem it would be necessary to end the internal unrest within the Christian state, and so he mediated between Hugh and his unenthusiastic knights from the Ibelin family of Cyprus.

The 1832 Reform Act gave the vote to individuals with at least 10 of property not an inconsequential sum, to be sure, but low enough to enfranchise the middle class.

The ongoing financial crisis will almost surely slow the integration of the accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe, whose young populations are the single most dynamic source of growth in Europe today.

That s not a trivial sum, but it isn t out of reach, especially considering that affluent nations would also benefit from cheaper drugs and from medical research that was focused on reducing disease rather than on maximizing profits.