They enjoyed twice the proportion of air conditioners and color TVs, and much more of the modern advances of microwaves, DVDs, VCRs, personal computers, and cell phones, as the middle class 30 years before.
The first reason is that modern warships are much more capable than their predecessors, and they have price-tags to match.
In comparison to Yugoslavia, modern Cambodia is much more a creation of the U.N. which is committed to fostering its democratic institutions.
Carbon dioxide emissions come from energy use, and energy is the key factor that makes modern economies so much more productive than pre-industrial societies.
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Velsheda can put up an incredible 9, 000 square feet of sail, more than twice as much as modern Cup boats, and accelerate to 13 knots in a heartbeat.
Modern investors are much more sophisticated in the way they think about risk, in particular separating the returns available from market movements (beta in the jargon) and managerial skill (alpha).
In automating the process of making a call, phone companies removed a burdensome manual hindrance from what was soon to become a much more convenient and ubiquitous part of modern life.
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Other modern Democratic presidents have had much more success with very different governing strategies.
Seen in motion, this is at once a powerful skeleton clock and a curious astronomical one, a gift to anyone for whom a modern clock can do so much more than just tell the time.
Reynolds notes as well that by 2001 the Census Bureau was reporting that the poor enjoyed as much or more of the indicia of a comfortable, modern standard of living as the middle class 30 years before.
In reality, modern-day followers of Hirsch are much more likely to be found on the right of the political spectrum than on the left.
When it comes to the modern education reform movement, I am much more concerned with the testing regime and the top-down approach of many school reformers than I am with the idea of school choice.
But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
Once the child is born, however, the Tuscan couple are on safer ground: indeed, Italian Renaissance attitudes towards child-rearing are often much more sensible, affectionate and enlightened than those maintained by many modern gurus.
The role of a modern prison officers, she says, is "much more complicated".
Scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton considered the quest to create the stuff in a laboratory to be much more important than figuring out gravity and other principles that underpin our modern-day understanding of physics.
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MacCready fielded a team, this time with an entry called the Bionic Bat, which featured a design much closer to modern light aircraft, incorporating a rear propeller and a more robust pilot gondola.
The Frenchman was not the first, nor the last, outsider to feel both the allure and the vindictive sting of a modern Greece that manages in an uncanny way to be much more, and much less, than the sum of its parts.
We have hosted youth workshops on everything from modern dance to classical music to spoken word poetry and so much more.
At the same time, Segolene Royal has been identified by many people as a very modern version of socialism, you know, it's much more social democrats, you know, breaking with French traditions of state-run economy and old dogmas like that.
It is probably worthwhile making a few observations about the modern hedge fund and private equity fund industries before going into too much more detail about how these funds are structured and operated.
But the most poignant fact to emerge from this survey of 13 countries is that two years of New Labour's attempts to project a more modern, dynamic, creative image of Britain have not yet made much impact.
When BlackBerry was known as RIM, it did much to attend to a loyal following, many of whom were reluctant to acquiesce to a more modern user interface.
The Prestige has only one hull, in contrast with more modern ships, which tend to have one inside another, which makes oil spills much less likely.
That's why there's so much emphasis now on how do we get our schools better, because in today's modern economy, more educated workers tend to be more productive.
"The modern world of technology, because there is more information out there, it's that much more important for our people to be vigilant and for us to be vigilant, " said Harlow of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Because Turkey has been the most modern and most secular of all the Middle Eastern countries, I think the secular elite is giving much more importance to it than is necessary, maybe.
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