Apparently, those that won - the Great Wall of China, for example, Machu Picchu - even the governments in those country appeal to the citizens to go online because it was an online vote, and vote.
They took on much more risk than their parents, whose generation grew up with a Great Depression-era distrust of Wall Street.
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The pan-African Great Green African Wall (GGW), a lush strips of vegetation capable of supporting birds and other animals, would stretch from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east to Dakar, Senegal in the west on the southern edge of the Sahara.
Angel Pagan hit an RBI double and two-run single for San Francisco, also making a great leaping catch against the center-field wall.
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QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.
The 800m section of the 2, 000-year-old Roman wall at Great Chesters, near Haltwhistle, is in poor repair because of weather and animal grazing.
The staff in the restaurant is professional and pleasant, the by-the-glass wine list is decent, and my linguine with clams last night was much better than the linguine with radicchio I had at that little hole-in-the-wall (with a great sense of place) near the Grand Hotel Gianicolo yesterday before heading for the station.
Mr. Prinz von Preussen, who is the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German kaiser, spoke with The Wall Street Journal by email.
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Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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The interest groups that led the Democrats astray, according to Cost, have come to prominence in the Party since the Great Society: public-sector unions, elements of Wall Street, feminists, environmentalists, and members of Congress who represent districts drawn to be majority-minority.
While it is true that U.S. investment banks and other institutions could make their case on Capitol Hill concerning lost profits if a foreign enterprise's access to, for example, the U.S. bond market was restricted due to proliferation concerns, it is unlikely that there would be a great outpouring of political sympathy for generally well-healed Wall Street players.
Instead of duplicating all the elements of a two-tier great room outside, Bridgwater employed new technologies that made it possible for a 30-foot stretch of wall to fold into a corner and seemingly disappear, instantly creating an outdoor living room.
"By the mid-'60s I had this great quartet and then hit a wall, " says Mr. Lloyd, explaining his period away from performing.
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To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.
Despite all the criticism that President Obama has received lately from Wall Street, the Administration has largely left the great money-making machine intact.
With my 300mm, I got some great close-ups of their bright orange and brown spots sticking out of this wall of green.
About Jimmy Carter, the late great Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Robert Bartley observed about the micro-managing president that he knew he would fail the minute he heard Carter was overseeing use of the White House tennis court.
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At the time of the great Wall Street crash of 1929, 10, 000 companies in America had defined-contribution plans in place (although not in their present form).
Some pilots, however, may soon have to brush up on their customary airborne banter--they'll more likely be pointing out whole continents or even the Great Wall of China.
From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.
Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
"There's an abundance of practical take-aways, " she said, pointing out a carved wall medallion that could be translated into a great throw pillow.
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