"It's a very popular way, and a very easy way, to grow financial services in a country, " he adds.

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Like mice and flies, it is considered to be a "model" organism because it is easy to grow, has a short life cycle and makes lots of seeds.

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Once we decided to get a license in China, our ability to operate and to grow our business in China has been fairly easy.

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These are easy to grow in culture, so Dr Gage and Dr Tuszynski remove some from their experimental animals, add a few new genes to encourage them to make neuronal growth factors, and then let them multiply.

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She thinks that her immediate environment will make her grow quickly and that she will find it increasingly easy to move rocky burdens from her heart to her head.

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Few arguments over reclining seats go that far, but as cabins grow more crowded and cramped, it's easy to find eye rolling, seething frustration or downright resistance coming from behind travelers who choose to push the armrest button.

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"SimCity Social will entice a new generation of urban planners with its easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to expand and grow their own unique sprawling metropolises and watch as it comes to life in fun and unexpected ways, " said Jami Laes, Vice President of Global Studios for Playfish.

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If we expect to help makers, hackers, and inventors grow businesses, we need our spaces and collaboration ethos to be easy to find.

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Even though many farmers recognized the potential of checkdams, it was not easy to build them because there were no handtools and it took some years before enough land could be created to grow enough cereals to make a substantial contribution to the family diet.

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