In the miracle years of 1950-73, GDP grew by an annual average of 6%.
Combine the gross value-added figure with the declining share of resources, and you might assume finance has enjoyed a productivity miracle over the past 20 years.
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But where did this all start and how did these two build such a great business for themselves in only 7 short years since that miracle match-up on a computer dating service?
Dimitri Itskov is head of the 2045 initiative, which he hopes can conquer death once and for all, in just 23 years, via the miracle of modern science.
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Indeed it is the profligacy and pollution of America's miracle economy that preoccupies Philip Shabecoff, for many years a writer on the environment for the New York Times.
And every few years comes the ultimate medical catastrophe: a miracle cure that turns out to be toxic.
And every few years comes the ultimate medical catastrophe: a miracle cure that turns out to be toxic--the latest case being Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx.
As hedge funds look toward the homestretch of 2012 they will have to pull off a sector-wide miracle to stop 2012 from being one of the worst years their rich industry has ever experienced.
Miracle Theatre has been touring innovative comic theatre across the UK for 30 years.
In the past two years, it seems to have pulled off a second economic miracle.
At the Royal Hotel in Cromarty, Jenny Henderson performed a near miracle by persuading the Clydesdale Bank to back her purchase of the business three years ago.
Some miracle drugs emerge from eureka moments, but more often a new compound results from years of meticulous, plodding work championed by a true believer.
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