Prosperity and money are mere second-order effects of capitalism, happy by-products.
They're second-order effects of the flip side of Moore's Law.
It also exists in a netherworld of first order effects in which we can increase government spending without having to worry about spillovers and second order effects on the private sector.
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The importance of such second-order genetic effects is only now being appreciated.
Pilots, for instance, are given checklists to follow, partly in order to combat the effects of fatigue.
How about fasting before chemotherapy treatment in order to reduce side effects?
Basing on the shared vision that we announced in April, I would like to further cooperate and work in order to generate synergy effects between the policies of Japan and the United States.
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In order to remove any seasonal effects, I used numbers from the third quarter (Q3) of each year.
Universal Everything worked with a London-based visual effects company in order to get the high resolution detail necessary.
The details do not matter, except to say that this is precisely the sort of experiment that might be carried out in space, in order to eliminate the distorting effects of gravity.
That will make it harder for local governments to repay the huge debts they incurred during the stimulus programme of 2009-10, when the central government urged state banks to lend to local governments in order to stave off the effects of the global financial crisis.
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Second, mix models measure immediate effects within a single week with no linkage to any other weeks in order to capture the downstream consequences of the immediate effects.
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That means entirely new types of resistance mechanism would have to evolve in order for bacteria to escape their effects.
In order to be successful, the effects of the plan need to be felt within the next 12 months, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a Congressional panel Thursday.
With apologies to the less wonkish, China is using physical capital as a loss leader in order to grow cities that will produce network effects will in turn foster the human capital that really makes a country rich.
Ordinary folks like us would want to believe that the suffering that ascetics undergo in order to toughen themselves up will in fact have deleterious effects on their wellbeing and health.
Entrepreneurship has been cited as an urgent need for Japan, in order for it to climb out of its recession and counter the effects of an aging workforce and economy.
Gapen said that Sandy will likely pose a modest drag on the fourth quarter on the order of about 0.2-0.3 percentage points, with negative effects in October and early November partially offset by a rebound later in the quarter.
Brickman says the contingency fee also has perverse effects similar to stock options, which drove executives to fudge the numbers in order to increase their pay.
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"Many African countries are feeling the effects of population growth, and are finding they'll need to deal with it in order to continue developing as well as to address their environmental issues, " he told BBC News.
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