As the rulebooks have been written, the hard-numbers culture has come to prevail.
When Ethiopia signed on to the Millennium goals in 2000, the country put hard numbers to its ambition to bring primary health care to all of its citizens.
Before I bring the panel back, I want to show you some hard numbers on the housing situation in California and then nationwide.
The much weaker GDP numbers, especially the big downward revision in the first quarter numbers, hit stocks hard early Friday.
But first, back in the U.S., following the poll numbers, hard to believe Election Day is just five days away.
And even the trucking numbers are hard to read.
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The numbers are hard to estimate, but between direct hiring, hiring through labor contractors, and off-the-books work beside parents or for cash, perhaps 400, 000 children, some as young as 6, weed and harvest for commercial farms.
We will win the race to the top if we can develop the new high value products and services and the new green technologies that the rising numbers of hard-working families across our globe will want to buy.
In an industry where most decisions come down to hard data, the numbers appear to be stacking up on the side of reform.
When Egyptian journalists pressed Mr. Shafiq's media representatives for hard numbers, the campaign workers demurred, insisting that the official results would vindicate their claims.
Sony has said that the card numbers would be hard to decipher due an encryption, but experts say a hacker would still easily be able to gain control of an account, International Business Times reports.
The mad scientists at the Tax Policy Center have done what they do best, crunching the numbers to determine just how hard high-earners will be hit in 2013.
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Ken Jones, president and chief executive of the host committee, said that was based on "hard numbers" funds raised by donors or allocated by the Republican National Committee or the Department of Homeland Security.
But when you actually looked at the numbers, it was hard to figure out how they all added up.
In practice, says Mr Tubiana, it is hard to keep only the numbers and not also the content of the messages.
The exact numbers of victims was hard to calculate, said Lookout, adding that figures from Google Play suggest that between two and nine million copies of apps booby trapped with BadNews were downloaded from the store.
When you layer in population growth in U.S. cities (projected to hit 400 million people in the next 40 years), those numbers become larger every year, and the hard reality is that we are running out of water.
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While the ISM Manufacturing Index has been expanding for seventeen straight months now, the gain in December plus the impressive numbers from the New Orders and Inventories components made it hard to be overly negative on the outlook for the economy.
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Given the relative newness of aggressive Facebook advertising, and the lack of any base numbers, however, it is hard to tell how significant the growth is.
But now, with the overall budget numbers set, the program-by-program review and hard detail work must begin.
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Looking at the raw numbers and what we know about the two companies, it seems hard to believe that Facebook can come even close to catching Google in revenues.
And while there could be a small change to some of the above numbers, it's hard to see why any of the points I've made would be significantly changed.
It's hard to actually tell the truth when those numbers are at the bottom of that truth.
Here at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, AtheroGenics put hard numbers on that reduction.
The numbers substantiate a shift to these hard to (dis)prove afflictions.
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One has to believe it's going to be very hard for the United States, in any real numbers, to pull people out without looking like cutting and running.
The government will say it has never denied that budget cuts affected growth, but it's not something that the Treasury or the Office for Budget Responsibility have usually put into hard numbers.
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Now as the MPA boss, the combative Kliger is hitting hard at inflated and fake circulation numbers.
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