Sami hit rock bottom economically.

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For most comets, the perihelion of their orbit lies outside the Earth's orbit.

But you better be the first one out of town as the real estate values go to hell.

For decades, developing countries dreamed of a nirvana of sky high commodity prices and rock bottom international interest rates.

Fear that the US would abandon the gold standard sent the dollar plummeting on world markets.

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As government debt has ballooned and policy interest rates have hit rock bottom, central banks have focused on increasingly innovative policy to boost demand.

Obama, however, inherited an economy in freefall, and could not possibly have turned things around in the short time since his inauguration.

America's standing plummeted in Islamic countries, whose support is needed to help track the flow of terrorists, tainted money, and dangerous weapons.

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The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, and the bad at the bottom, and it's exactly done as it should be, is impossible.

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OXFORD George W. Bush is approaching the end of his presidency mired in low popularity ratings, which partly reflects his policies in the Middle East.

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Rapid population growth from around one million in 1920 to around seven million today made all of this far more deadly by slashing living standards.

Because of an eccentricity of 0.048, the distance from Jupiter and the Sun varies by 75 million km between perihelion and aphelion, or the nearest and most distant points of the planet along the orbital path respectively.

SAO PAULO The global economy has bounced back strongly from the nadir of 2009, but growth is still uneven and recent data in key advanced economies have been disappointing.

But they were deeply affected by the drop in world trade, which recorded a peak to trough decline of at least 15 , with trade finance also contracting sharply, owing to a shortage of dollar liquidity.

This meeting is being held at a time when the United Nations Mission, with the support of the Transitional Government of Haiti and the growing participation of Haitian society, has effectively halted the disintegration of that society and its spiral towards the abyss.

If you take the 10 countries that went on to become the Western empires, in 1500 they were really quite tiny five percent of the world's land surface, 16 percent of its population, maybe 20 percent of its income.

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It may in fact be a particularly cruel form of inequality, as those who do not succeed cannot argue that they were unlucky or kept down by those in power.

The demand for a new constitution emulating Nigeria s First Republic of the early 1960 s, when the country was a federation of powerful regions enjoying a large measure of fiscal autonomy, grew over the years as Nigeria s economy plummeted.