Global problems have declined dramatically relative to the resources available to tackle them.

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250 , thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.

Failure to recognize this point can have significant consequences. As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.

There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the demonstrators and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.

At this time a dramatic shift in climate occurred, causing a significant drop in precipitation in the Titicaca Basin, believed by archaeologists to have been on the scale of a major drought.

Mr. Arthur (Barbados) Today we gather, as a family of nations, to take stock of the progress that has been made in fulfilling the commitment that was given as part of our celebration of the start of a new century, to bring about a dramatic improvement in the human condition everywhere.