Most policymakers still focus on GDP, because, while not perfect, it is strongly correlated with highly prized real world outcomes.

In monkeys, the level of dopaminergic activity is highly correlated with the level of uncertainty such that the activity increases with uncertainty.

Political pundits agree that presidential approval ratings are highly correlated with gas prices when prices go up, a president s poll ratings go down.

More specifically, exchange rates such as the Australian dollar yen became strongly correlated with global equity markets.

The first shaky principle is that if the return on these bonds is highly correlated, so that they all default at the same time, overcollateralization is not much help.

Europe does face severe demographic problems, but size of population is not highly correlated with power, and predictions of Europe s downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.

It's when people's fortunes are correlated.

The emissions or removals need to be strongly correlated with other well known and more readily available indicative data (drivers).

the landscape is much more nuanced, and highly personalized.

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

Because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.

More needs to be done to reverse those highly disturbing trends.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

An increase in CIMT was correlated with an increased risk for CAD.

This presumably more fiscally unified political entity would be highly attractive to investors.

Furthermore, the survey showed that declining trust was strongly correlated with financial behavior.

Today, more than 80 per cent of African States were highly indebted poor countries.

As a result, fame could be negatively, not positively, correlated with long run accuracy.

The first is to observe that this error is correlated with the boom bust cycle.

Where do I stand in this lively debate? I believe that more diversity in banking, and more competition, is highly desirable.

However, more active support and a more timely response from the States parties would be highly appreciated, given the limited time available.

But, in both cases, the failure probabilities were correlated, and their joint occurrence led to catastrophe.

Disasters are also closely correlated with poverty, as low income countries are disproportionately affected by them.

Hard economic times are correlated with protectionism, as each country blames others and protects its domestic jobs.

At the end of approximately 6 years of follow up, CIMT measurements were correlated with cardiovascular events.

But there's a more fundamental reason that it's not intrinsically upbeat, because a non zero sum game, all it tells you for sure is that the fortunes will be correlated for better or worse.

Last month, a highly reputable source confirmed that the Guantánamo prisoners are suffering from more than indefinite detention.

Fifth, some argued that highly indebted sovereigns would push investors into gold as government bonds became more risky.

It is no longer clear that France s highly educated leaders are better able to run the country s affairs more efficiently and more honestly than others.

Since then, Indonesia has transformed the government system from being highly centralized to a more decentralized one, allowing for more autonomy at local government level.

The height of a person can vary over the course of a day, due to factors such as the amount of exercise done directly before measurement (normally inversely correlated), or the time elapsed since lying down for a significant period of time (normally inversely correlated).

China also needs to shift from its highly extensive (resource consuming) growth strategy to a more intensive development path.

Highly skilled and better educated respondents tend to be considerably more pro free trade than blue collar workers are.

Thus, while economic power is not a prerequisite to Olympic power, multipolarity in sports remains positively correlated with it.

And, two weeks before Martin died, Jolie revealed that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation which is correlated with a woman s being five times more susceptible to breast cancer and 28 times more susceptible to ovarian cancer.

It is highly likely that today s recession will drag on for many more years in both America and the EU.

Today s flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate.

These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5 equity (and thus 95 debt).

And, even more important, we have a young population that is highly motivated to grow, to learn and to work.

The financial system has become even more concentrated, exacerbating the problem of banks that are not only too big, too interconnected, and too correlated to fail, but that are also too big to manage and be held accountable.

The more than 20 bilateral and multilateral donor agencies for agriculture are highly fragmented and of insufficient scale individually and collectively.

We believe that the existence of two States living side by side in peace is highly desirable and, more important, possible.

Investors prize assets that are relatively uncorrelated, or even better, negatively correlated with the returns of the market as a whole.

What's even more surprising is that self grades, where the students grade their own work critically so long as you incentivize them properly so they can't give themselves a perfect score are actually even better correlated with the teacher grades.

It is disturbing to witness the deterioration of a once elegant, intellectually lively, and highly independent companion of more than four decades.