It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.
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"Apple welcomes an objective examination of the US corporate tax system, which has not kept pace with the advent of the digital age and the rapidly changing global economy, " the company said in testimony released Monday.
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Note that the warming before 1940 is attributable to the global recovery of temperatures from the Little Ice Age, and even the land based records show no warming over the last 13 years.
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The global network has come of age - and those using it must grow up, too.
And in the age of a global economy, capital is going to flow where it finds the fewest barriers to entry.
We are entering the age of the global Olympian, in which a top-notch competitor can be bounced easily from one country to another like a shuttlecock.
And ultimately in the age of the global economy, both political leaders and corporate leaders are subject to the discipline of the markets, as sovereign bondholders and shareholders can sway corporate and country-level confidence dramatically.
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During the first half of the twentieth century, as global temperatures rose in the aftermath of the Little Ice Age, rainfall in the Sahel increased dramatically.
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The age of a truly global mass media had dawned, which meant that what he said would be seen, heard or reported everywhere in the world.
The scientists are concerned that the biosphere has seen dramatic changes since the last Ice Age, factoring in the climate and a huge increase in global population.
So we have a paper merely claiming that two out of three global temperature stations report the Little Ice Age is over.
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Japanese policymakers insist that a breakthrough on agriculture in the Doha round of global trade talks would compel Japanese leaders to confront the farmers (whose average age is over 60) once and for all.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age.
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Reflecting its global scope, evidence of the Little Ice Age appears in the Southern Hemisphere as well.
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As the first group to hit high school in a post-Sept. 11, 2001 world, these teens are coming of age when global problems fill the news nightly.
Those ocean temperature cycles, and the continued recovery from the Little Ice Age, are primarily why global temperatures rose from 1915 until 1945, when CO2 emissions were much lower than in recent years.
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Lawrence (Laury) Minard, founding editor of FORBES GLOBAL, died Aug. 2 at the age of 51.
Several scientists pointed out that during most of the past 10, 000 years, the time period since the last full-blown ice age glaciation ended, global temperatures were warmer than today.
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From the age of 8 I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia.
But the adventurous nonet known as Fight the Big Bull formed in an age of widespread jazz education and instant global communication.
An IPO will also test the ability of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, age 27, to manage a global company whose financial performance will be scrutinized every three months by investors.
Rather, I think the root cause lies in families of origin, where the critical thinking, reading, and listening skills so essential to success in a global high-tech economy, need to be modeled from the earliest possible age.
"It is a global scandal that the vast majority of the more than 110 million school-age children not in school are girls, " said Ms. Bellamy, noting the need for an all-out global effort to crack this major impediment to education for all.
Attempts to argue that such events were not global are contradicted by abundant evidence for the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age from East Asia, Australasia, South America and South Africa, as well as from North America and Europe.
At Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), we've developed comprehensive global energy scenarios, called "Dawn of New Age, " out to the year 2030.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
As we transition into the age where the accessibility of connected sensor devices becomes available, the opportunities for optimizing global systems seem almost endless.
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Taking advantage of industrial-age tax codes, these multinational giants are leveraging the digital realities of today's global economy to run rings around local tax collectors.
U.S. and global soil moisture improved throughout the 20th century as our planet warmed in its recovery from the Little Ice Age.
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