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...expression or communication. Although James C. Fuller ’10 expertly used his body and facial expressions to converse with his partner, Todorova, as well as with the audience, Todorova wore the same blank expression throughout the piece. This stark difference between the two performers changed the total effect of the piece, overshadowing both the choreography and the dancing...
...understand innovation," says Alberto Rodriguez, author of a soon-to-be-released World Bank study on how better education spurs growth. "You have the high-tech, frontier innovation, and you have the adaptation and improvement of technology that happen day to day in firms." Economists call that everyday improvement total factor productivity. It is the x factor that allows an economy to operate more efficiently, producing greater output with the same people and resources...
Having access to technology and workers with the skills to use it determine a country's total factor productivity and, in the end, its wealth. In 1960 South Korea and Brazil had about the same per capita income. Today South Korea's per capita income is five times Brazil's. "Most of the growth in Korea in this period can be attributed to improvements in total factor productivity," Rodriguez says. "And that is what Brazil needs...
...that my Government Department senior thesis writer’s handbook told me I needed in order to submit my thesis. Since this material was mandatory for all thesis writers, I assumed the expense to be moderate, 20 to 30 dollars at most. Imagine my surprise, then, when the total for my 300 sheets of prized, acid-free paper (at just over 100 pages long, my thesis required just over one 100-sheet package) and two spring binders rang up to a whopping 93 dollars...
Racking up the hits to achieve a team-high season total of 213 kills, Weissbourd plays like “a monster,” as captain Dave Fitz put it after Weissbourd’s strong performance in the Crimson’s March 21 victory over New Haven...