Moore's law made computing cheap so cheap we can weigh the life of an individual insect and decide thumbs up or thumbs down.

Thumbs up to soldiers who let us walk in peace. Cairo, Egypt.

If you like that one, or don't like it, you do thumbs up and thumbs down. Over time it tailors the songs so that it completely stops playing bad songs.

Our economy is screwed up, big time.

It's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall.

If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big and should be broken up.

Suddenly humans show up Homo erectus big, old melon head.

Unlike humans and most Old World monkeys, their thumbs are not opposable (except for some Cebids).

But the entire planet warms up when there's a big El Nino.

The Kanjorski Amendment is a very big stick. Who will pick it up?

These are the people that define the requirements of the technology, and these are the people that have to give the thumbs up at the end, and say, Yeah, it actually works. It meets our needs.

YR Okay, up to 3,000 meters, it's not such a big problem with oxygen.

It required such big reductions that only few countries could live up to it.

for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

But Adoni Bezek fled and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

But Adoni bezek fled and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible all thumbs and no fingers.

Where civil society remains underdeveloped, every problem filters up to the Big Man squatting at the top.

The DPJ has vowed to shake up the cozy relations between Japan s bureaucrats, politicians, and big business.

Since the majority of animals lack opposable thumbs, the fine motor skills required for use in most gaming is unavailable to these animals.

Big companies. Big companies.

But how much higher? There is much discussion of breaking up banks that are too big to fail.

Big Money Merges with Big Brother

Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering.

28 great, big, powerful yaks carrying all the equipment up onto this mountain I don't just have my Speedo, but there's a big film crew who then send all the images around the world.

More recently, in the early 1980 s, the International Monetary Fund and the central banks in the big industrial countries teamed up to pressure banks into extending more credit to the big Latin American debtor countries.

SW And since she's such a big fan, she knows that his birthday is coming up at the end of March.

One hears this argument for many modern industries, from big food to big pharma to big finance.

If they take big bets and win, they walk away with the proceeds if they fail, the government picks up the tab.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration s proposed approach to ending too big to fail now taken up by the US Congress will not work.

For years, this democracy hobbled on stilts, with big and small parties shooting up, crashing down, vanishing and reincarnating time and again.

Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!

Being too big to fail simply means being too big.

The irony is that Congress took up the big banks offer to separate commercial and investment banking, but then enacted deposit insurance anyway.

Big mistake.

Big Pearls

He said, Don't all those little tweets, don't all those little sips of online communication, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?

The second big enabler is intellectual property, because in fact I got up here and I talked about how great the music culture is.

One strategy, termed benign neglect, was to let the surplus countries pile up reserves until they realized that they had a very big problem.

The big question today is whether all these alternative approaches can add up to more than a bit of desperate tinkering around the edges.

If his family had forgiven him, they were to put up a white ribbon in the big apple tree which stood near the tracks.

Before she leaves, she warns her young about the Big Bad Wolf who will try to sneak into the house and gobble them up.

Because traditional economic theory would say, well, the mountain bike was probably invented by some big bike corporation that had a big R D lab where they were thinking up new projects, and it came out of there. It didn't come from there.

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

Deah Barakat was a tall guy with a big smile and big ideas.