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  • One solid guess would be Mandarin Chinese, the national language spoken by people whose country plays an ever-larger role on the global economic stage.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One solid guess would be Mandarin Chinese, the national language spoken by people whose country plays an ever-larger role on the global economic stage.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • A point may soon be reached where private investors, Eurozone taxpayers and the IMF can no longer cobble together ever-larger "rescue packages," all of which, with perverse logic, require even larger levels of public debt to construct.

    Sheldon Filger: Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Now Global Sheldon Filger 2011

  • Under this approach, regulators restrict emissions by issuing a limited number of emission allowances, with the number of allowances ratcheted down over time, thus assuring ever-larger reductions in overall emissions.

    Robert Stavins: Pursuing Real Environmental Justice in California Robert Stavins 2011

  • A point may soon be reached where private investors, Eurozone taxpayers and the IMF can no longer cobble together ever-larger "rescue packages," all of which, with perverse logic, require even larger levels of public debt to construct.

    Sheldon Filger: Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Now Global Sheldon Filger 2011

  • Temporary-help agencies are playing an ever-larger role—from providing clerical and factory workers to nurses and engineers.

    What's Wrong With America's Job Engine? David Wessel 2011

  • There had been a dramatic growth in Egyptian civil society during the preceding years, with an increasing number of labor strikes and small, but ever-larger, demonstrations led by such youthful, secular pro-democracy groups as Kefaya (meaning "Enough!") and the April 6 Movement (named after a nationwide strike and protest on that date in 2008.)

    Stephen Zunes: Credit the Egyptian People for the Egyptian Revolution Stephen Zunes 2011

  • Under this approach, regulators restrict emissions by issuing a limited number of emission allowances, with the number of allowances ratcheted down over time, thus assuring ever-larger reductions in overall emissions.

    Robert Stavins: Pursuing Real Environmental Justice in California Robert Stavins 2011

  • The Wi-Fi explosion also explains something else—why mobile operators have such a hard time getting customers to pay for the ever-larger gobs of wireless bandwidth they're consuming.

    The Wireless Equivalent of Fracking Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2012

  • Under this approach, regulators restrict emissions by issuing a limited number of emission allowances, with the number of allowances ratcheted down over time, thus assuring ever-larger reductions in overall emissions.

    Robert Stavins: Pursuing Real Environmental Justice in California Robert Stavins 2011

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