Some German states had issued their own would-be stable currency: Baden's was secured on the revenue of state forests, Hanover's convertible into a given quantity of rye.

ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: German hyperinflation

"By nature, estimating mortality in emergencies is an imprecise science, but given the quantity and quality of data that were available, we are confident in the strength of the study, " said Fews Net official Chris Hillbruner.

BBC: Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'

It's actually all starting to sound a little bit like Firestone, but given the sheer quantity of phones HTC produces, we wouldn't put it past 'em to be hard at work at several Snapdragon-powered phones with virtually identical specs right now, possibly with different markets in mind.

ENGADGET: HTC Leo and Mega to be awesome and not-so-awesome, respectively?

It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.

ENGADGET: Razer Hydra Sixense motion controller eyes-on

We expect a gradual reduction in the quantity of steel sold to ArcelorMittal, given that the renewal of umbrella agreement between ArcelorMittal and Cliffs seems unlikely, and also as ArcelorMittal focuses on expanding its iron-ore production capacity globally.

FORBES: Cliffs Pushes Plenty O' Pellets, Lives And Dies With ArcelorMittal

Quantity shouldnt be the measure of how funds are given but the quality of those funds.

FORBES: David Stern To Retire After Delivering $12 Billion In Value To Owners

Energy density refers to the quantity of energy that can be contained in a given unit of volume, area, or mass.

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What a given level of income means for the quantity and quality of Britain's jobs depends not on the EU but on how our labour market works.

BBC: EU costs and benefits: an impossible balancing act