Looking around his headquarters it is striking that you hardly see a phone, landline or mobile.
It is striking that America got acid-rain regulation passed in an election year under a Republican president.
It is striking that a Big Mac hamburger now costs about 30% less in Tokyo than in mid-town Manhattan.
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It is striking that executives at American investment banks, which have long been subject to fair-value rules, largely accept the regime.
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It is striking that studies of twins regularly come up with higher levels of heritability than do other sorts of studies.
It is striking that so many people are even asking the question let alone answering it, in some cases, with frightening triple-digit numbers.
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Though the currency crises that hit both countries were caused mainly by economic mismanagement, it is striking that both are big laundering centres.
Against that challenging backdrop, it is striking that Mr Horta-Osorio says Lloyds has boosted net commercial lending - that's after repayments - by 2%.
Given the widespread perception of unfairness, it is striking that they nonetheless showed strong support for free market capitalism, from about three quarters of respondents overall.
It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.
It is striking that support for democracy is relatively low in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, the region's three most populous countries, and is falling in Argentina and Chile.
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It is striking that the Europeans--particularly the French--wanted this summit to convene at short notice but did not end up putting significant immediate macroeconomic measures on the table.
In all of the celebration of Ronald Reagan it is striking that GOP die-hards still place his bundle of ideas (economic growth) over how he tapped into a consensus desire (optimism).
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But it is striking that although the human and financial cost of the Japanese calamity was significantly greater than New Zealand's, the insurance claims faced by Lloyd's don't seem to capture that.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative -- precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
It is striking that participants do not view literacy classes or training courses as a set of mechanical skills or information that must be learned, but rather as a process of empowerment made possible by the exchange between participants, and between the self and the written word.
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In fact, for all the current excitement about rock-star bonds and the like, it is striking that the vast majority of asset-backed securities are American and involve a few types of assets, such as mortgage and credit-card loans, which generate relatively predictable amounts of cash at predictable times.
It is striking that investors are looking for reasons to make riskier investments (buying shares, for example), which most would see as a good sign - although this would be self-defeating if it provided false signals to European government heads that they need to be less bold and ambitious in constructing a three-pronged rescue package for the eurozone.
That said, it is striking that in the boom years before the crash of 2007-8, none of the big banks replaced their so-called legacy systems with new modern ones - which some would see as another example of how they did too little sensible long-term investment when the sun was shining, and are now struggling to mend their roofs in less clement weather.
And to go to Jen's point -- and this is a matter of policy -- it is rather striking that the central engine at this time of that political campaign, and all the money that is fueling the engine, is going towards an advertisement that is provably and demonstrably false.
It is striking here that no one ever says they want their old New Orleans back.
It is striking therefore that now-President Clinton appears set to reduce dramatically the U.S. strategic defense program.
It is certainly striking that from all of Europe only Oxford and Cambridge feature in the top 20.
It is particularly striking that the USSR today does not satisfy the criteria enunciated by Secretary Baker for recognition by the United States.
It is also striking that Gates seems to be the victim of a police mentality that chafes at a challenge of its implicit authority.
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It is equally striking that British relative economic decline seems to have stopped, and may actually be being reversed even, as the author observes, in parts of manufacturing.
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