For example, in recalling a phone number, the person could chunk the digits into three groups first, the area code (such as 123), then a three digit chunk (456), and, last, a four digit chunk (7890).

In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global sea level rise.

In other words, China owns a huge chunk of America s ballooning debt.

But, if there is no inflation over the next ten years, I will pay a hefty real price for borrowing.

About every 10 steps, they lean back and try to take a chunk out of your leg.

The central government is arguably solvent, but a significant chunk of municipal and provincial bank debt seems underwater.

(The real news in his victory was that he got a chunk of white men, who rarely support a Democrat.)

Cynics may argue that the new member countries could afford to make such concessions because they would end up with hefty EU subsidies anyway.

The UAE is spending a chunk of its oil money to develop Masdar, the world s first zero carbon, zero waste city.

Meanwhile, the federal government makes up for a good chunk of the drop in state incomes by transfers or reduced taxes.

In this state, a higher priority process will get a larger chunk of the CPU time than a lower priority process.

A chunk of rock six miles across, moving something like 50 times the speed of a rifle bullet, slammed into the Earth.

Due to its hefty cost of 8.2 million euros (around 9.3 million US dollars), it is also regarded as a symbol of corruption and government excess.

But recent evidence suggests that large changes, caused by the absorption of a chunk of alien genetic material, may be just as significant.

The increase was perhaps exaggerated in the heat of the moment, but a good chunk of the money actually appears to have materialized.

India had never previously purchased an American fighter plane, and the United States hoped that India would cement the emerging bilateral strategic partnership with a hefty check.

Multi national advertisers who covet the huge Saudi market were informed in no uncertain terms that they would lose hefty contracts if they advertised on Al Jazeera.

Looser US monetary policy has thus set the tempo for inflation in a significant chunk perhaps as much as 60 of the global economy.

In November 2011 a chunk of ice, the size of an orange, broke through the roof of a private house in Ratingen Hösel, Germany.

The true problem for France is the huge chunk of state owned companies that go through the motions without being particularly successful in the market.

And the camels come down again like elevators, we sort of clumsily get off, and they obviously try to take another chunk out of my leg.

Some say that the miracle stemmed from an agricultural revolution that freed a large chunk of the labor force to make things rather than grow food.

It came in at speeds that were tremendous, slammed into the ground, blew up, and exploded with the energy of roughly a 20 megaton nuclear bomb a very hefty bomb.

Market dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit and credit card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear.

Overall public debt, to which each year s deficit adds another hefty dollop, is projected to exceed 100 of GDP in 2011, up from around 40 in the late 1970 s.

The state owned oil company, which accounts for a major chunk of government revenue, is hugely inefficient, and invests far too little in new equipment and technology.

NEW YORK Seventy years ago this month in Munich, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a document that allowed Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia.

On the micro side, too little public investment means poor infrastructure and high export costs. Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.

All the unresolved conflicts of Europe were on that chunk of painted concrete a neo Nazi swastika, surrealistic faces of Europe s dead from war and Holocaust and secret police purges.

As for business leaders, despite the hefty fees they must pay to become members of the Davos Family, they, too, keep coming because for them the Forum ultimately represents a time and money saving investment.

If we could eventually colonize a chunk of the universe the Virgo supercluster maybe it will take us 100 million years to get there, but if we go extinct we never will.

The US economy may have lost a fair chunk of its mojo, but it will require a lot more bad luck and policy blunders to get to a second worldwide Great Depression.

The system is hardest on first generation graduates who lack a highly placed relative to help them into the workforce they are often left with no option but to pay a hefty bribe to advance their careers.

It is at least possible maybe even likely that Apple s best long term move would be to release a hefty portion of its unused cash to its shareholders, who would then plow it back into the economy.

In recent months, the most powerful clan, led by Deputy Head of Kremlin Administration Igor Sechin, whose company, Rosneft, received the biggest chunk of Yukos in 2004, has threatened to engulf the others.

By 1950, China s share of world GDP had fallen to under 5 , while all of Asia accounted for just 18 , the biggest chunk of which was attributable to Japan, despite its defeat in WWII.

In 1971, a chunk of ice from an aircraft tore a large hole in the roof of the Essex Street Chapel in Kensington, London, and was one trigger for the demolition of the building.

This is obviously a hefty price tag at least a 50 increase in the total cost of the EU and it will likely be much higher (the Commission has previously estimated the cost to be double its current estimate).

Well, in part, because health care in the developed world, the health care costs in the developed world, are rapidly spiraling out of control, and a huge chunk of those costs are human resource costs.

The bill, which is yet to be passed by the Senate, aims to stem domestic violence by requiring speedy criminal trials, issuing protection orders, creating grassroots level protection committees, and punishing wife beaters with long jail terms and hefty fines.

First, once we look outside transfers within the financial sector, the total global effects of this chunk of finance is a gain of perhaps 340 billion in increased real shareholder value from higher expected future profits.

Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether healthcare pressures will ultimately cause the current trend towards free (and freer) market capitalism to reverse, with a very large chunk of the economy reverting to a more socialist system.

More than three years passed before new US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady set out a more satisfactory program, in which banks would be given a menu of options that included lower interest rates on the debt and a hefty discount on the principal.

If inflation is also 4 per year, I can borrow for free and for less than nothing if annual inflation turns out to be higher. But, if there is no inflation over the next ten years, I will pay a hefty real price for borrowing.

A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party s largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted.