If Internet users are expected to double to close to 1 billion by 2005, according to the UNDP Human Development Report 2002, it is hard to see how the imbalance in favour of developed countries is going to be redressed in the foreseeable future without strong political motivation.
Hewitt, without a title since his Wimbledon win, took advantage of two double faults to close out the tie-break and the match.
All this suggests that potential growth is nowhere near double digits but close to what India has today, especially given a weak global economy.
If I had a chance to double, or close to triple, my salary my first year out of the military, I would do so in a minute.
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But the 2012 consensus earnings estimate for Kronos is calling for close to double the earnings of 2011.
The first is inflation, coursing through some economies at close to double-digit percentages.
It has released close to double the amount of software titles, and sold nearly twice as many as well.
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Moreover, the top 20% of income earners pay 94% of federal income taxes, which is close to double their share of income.
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Unemployment is still close to double the national rate because the workforce has recently expanded almost as quickly as the number of jobs.
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In fact what you would need was something close to double-digit inflation for a couple of years: an inflation "shock" that really gets you started.
Indeed, many remember a time not very long ago when yields in German bunds and U.S. Treasurys were close to double-digits and have factored such returns into their long-term financial planning.
However, food inflation has been hovering close to double digits for over two years, driving up overall inflation and crimping the space the central bank has to cut lending rates to stimulate economic growth.
For the second time Hingis serves a double fault while serving to close out the match.
That was more than double the current level and close to the highest allocation that the Hulbert Financial Digest has ever recorded: 79.7%.
For double world champion Alonso the close of 2007 marked the finale of a nightmarish year at McLaren where he and Hamilton traded barbed insults in the media before doing their best to pretend the other did not exist.
Instead Gingrich stunned the pundits by a double-digit spread victory, close to a 30 point swing from January 9.
Easter was close to scoring a double but he saw his header from 12 yards rebound off the bar.
Having weathered the early second-half storm, Cardiff began to reassert their superiority and Roberts went close to notching his double.
That means the U.S. just needs to double its average speed to get close to South Korea at 14.7 Mbps.
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There was a glimmer of hope for the first-term senator when polls showed she began to close Fitzgerald's double-digit lead late in the week before election day.
The SPY is now up over 15% since the November 2012 lows and is already close to the yearly double-digit gain that I discussed at the end of the year.
The new car park will provide more than double the existing number of disabled spaces close to the welcome building.
Like David Bowie, who recently dropped an album no one was even expecting, Timberlake played it close to the (double) vest.
The tension was mounting, and both players began missing chances, but it was Fordham who held his nerve to close out the match with double two.
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Motherwell were fired up early in the second half and only a double block denied Clarkson and Ross McCormack from close range.
But the bulls do not want to see follow-through selling pressure on Friday to produce a bearish weekly low close and raise the specter of a bearish double-top reversal pattern forming on the daily bar chart.
We would also like to include double-tap behaviours for dodging and a wide variety of close-quarters utility thaumaturgic powers.
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Moments before the break Brown produced a great double save to deny Goodwillie and then block Daly's close-range header.
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