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.

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

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.

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

These differences were highly significant.

It's when people's fortunes are correlated.

Lebanese women were highly educated but few were elected to office.

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.

With no escape route, soldiers were highly motivated to win.

Most disease is correlated with poverty, but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.

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

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

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

These public messages were highly misleading and clearly intended to shock and disturb.

As a result, highly indebted governments were the next to hit the wall.

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

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

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

Furthermore, they were highly vulnerable to abuse and neglected by the adults responsible for them.

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

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

But its revenues and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real estate bubble.

The post itself caused outrage, and many of the commenters were highly opposed to such means.

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).

Before the 1994 Genocide, Muslims were held in low regard, because they were seen as traders, in a land where farmers are highly regarded.

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

While the American and Chinese economies are highly interdependent today, so, too, were Germany and Britain before 1914.

The Chairman noted that although commentaries were not legal documents, they were highly regarded and would influence the decisions of judges who were required to interpret the draft convention.

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

The three investment proposals presented were ranked among the best, likely to be highly cost effective (see http www.copenhagenconsensus.com ).

Knives were used at the table, but most people were expected to bring their own, and only highly favored guests would be given a personal knife.

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

Since 1990, the Government of China has closed down some large enterprises that were using antiquated technologies and or were highly inefficient consumers of energy and materials.

Some were talented and believed that the new subsidies and incentives rendered long term investments in the industry highly attractive.

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

Mr. Nayamuth stressed that agriculture, particularly the growing of sugar cane, and water resources were identified as highly vulnerable sectors.

The issue of fuel inefficiency is the consequence of larger systemic developments directly correlated to spiralling expansion of the industrial longline industry.

Of eight highly qualified female judges and constitutional law professors who were approached, only one was willing to accept the nomination.

It would be highly appreciated if the present letter and its annexes were circulated as a document of the Security Council.

The privateers were highly effective the English fishing fleet on the Grand Banks was reduced by 80 percent between 1702 and 1707, and some English coastal communities were raided.

Most important, even though debt levels and growth remained negatively correlated, the evidence for a 90 threshold was revealed to be quite weak.

High ice motion was correlated with the intensity of cyclonic activity, heat advection and the increase of snow accumulation on the ice sheet.