In June of 1995, a health worker in a tiny town in Zambia went to the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and got the answer to a question about the treatment of malaria.
The right answer to the question of what investors should do now is not the same answer for everyone.
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If the Committee cannot find an answer to the question of the cost of execution, it will never be able to grasp the extent to which funds pay excessive commissions and fund boards fail to monitor trading costs.
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How we frame this question, though, is more important than the answer, because the nature of a question dictates its answer.
In his new book, Born On A Mountaintop: On The Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier, author Bob Thompson follows in the footsteps of the famous frontiersman in a quest to answer the question, why has the legend of Davy Crockett endured?
And, for all the evidence presented, it fails to provide a definitive answer to the question of whether the firm's success owes more to its brilliance or to its ability to find all sorts of ways to load the dice.
They were the first to answer the question of how many atoms it takes to reliably store one bit of magnetic information: 12.
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There's also an aerial view of the pool at Soho House that helps to answer the question of how many angels you can get on the head of a pin, or at least fashion models cheek by jowl at a scene swimming pool on a sweltering summer day.
Because there, the courts have said under our Constitution that the executive branch's Constitutional authority - to answer the question of one of your previous callers - to protect classified information comes into direct conflict with the criminal defendant's right to a full and complete defense under a number of amendments to our Constitution.
More data are expected from the study that could help answer the question of which drugs are most cost-effective.
This leads me to try to answer the question of whether the clear outcome of the election will reduce uncertainty.
Since the height of the feminist movement in the late 1960s, non-leftist women in the West and Israel have been hard-pressed to answer the question of whether or not we are feminists.
This is done by taking those respondents who will disclose which party they voted for at the last election, but refuse to answer the question of how they would vote in an election now, or say they don't know.
Jakeman: What informed it was a rigorous review around the world over 10 months to really answer the question of, does a Pepsi loyalist have a distinct set of values by which they live their lives that are distinct and separate from our competitors and could those be codified into a single positioning for the brand that could work globally?
As he and other economists acknowledge in a symposium in the July Economic Journal, there is no clear-cut theoretical answer to the question of whether regional trade agreements are good or bad, and the empirical findings are hotly disputed.
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Here are three destinations in various parts of the world that are in different stages of development, but are seeking to answer the same question: Can we make eco-tourism into one of the most important industries in our country?
The answer to the question of who gets the leadership job is usually the less creative candidate.
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That is one type of answer to the question of what causes depression.
Since the intention of the study was to judge how well unit-trust managers performed (rather than answer the slightly different question of how well investors did), the harmful impact of costs associated with buying into the funds, a big issue in Britain, was eliminated.
The young angel investor is the co-founder of the white-hot question and answer site Quora .
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The Norwegian police have yet to answer conclusively the vital question of whether he acted alone or with accomplices.
At the JP Morgan Conference, I told the story of our heavy-duty starter factory in answer to the question from the floor.
The people who have the skills and insight to answer this question will successfully sail along the surface of the changing world.
The U.S. Department of Transportation says the answer to that question would depend on local sales tax law.
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Or he can become the answer to the trivia question of who was the last CEO before Yahoo went down.
If the answer to the question for any of the nations involved was "yes" you had to provide a complete explanation for the reason for the trip, when it took place, etc.
The obvious answer to the question is that the likely make-up of the new Congress would never permit such a thing.
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