Word: developable
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...companies to get involved. Even the best p.r. may not pay the bill for 10 years of research into a new drug. That's why it's so important for governments to create more financial incentives. Under a U.S. law enacted last year, for example, any drug company that develops a new treatment for a neglected disease like malaria can get a priority review from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for another product it has made. If you develop a new drug for malaria, your profitable cholesterol drug could go on the market as much as a year earlier...
This all dovetails neatly with regional mantras about the need to empower women. "Middle Eastern society has come to terms with the fact that in order to develop, it has to walk the talk of liberalism," says Florence Eid, a Middle East partner at American hedge fund company Pantera Capital Management. Of course, the finance industry is driven by commercial imperatives, not social ones. "This is not about women's liberation," says Graham Bell, managing director of Bridge Partners, a wealth-management firm in Dubai. "It's about money...
...using the earbuds that come with an iPod and you turn the volume up to about 90% of maximum and you listen a total of two hours a day, five days a week, our best estimates are that the people who have more sensitive ears will develop a rather significant degree of hearing loss - on the order of 40 decibels (dB). That means the quietest sounds audible are 40 dB loud. Now, this is high-pitched hearing loss, so a person can still hear sounds and understand most speech. The impact is going to be most clearly noted when...
...been training members specifically to mount operations in China." He warns that although the group is small, the threat it poses to the Olympics is real because of the training and assistance it has received from al-Qaeda-linked groups. "To prevent attacks, it is essential for Beijing to develop a deeper understanding of the structures of each one of these groups, their operatives and their modus operandi," the report argues, adding that "the current understanding of the authorities of China of these three groups is appreciably weak...
...first part of it was I wanted 11 guys on offense and 11 guys on defense. Now 20 some years later that sounds simple-yeah, it?s football-but everything up till then had three or four guys. So that took three years to develop...