Now these countries account for a third of world consumption in commodities such as copper.
He said that to truly understand the human condition, we had to take account of this third drive.
Developing countries should account for one third of sales by 2013, Kraft said, vs. about one fourth now.
China and India are expected to account for one third of the world's diabetics in a couple of decades.
Bonds with a maturity of more than ten years account for a third of the value of all outstanding bond issues.
Mr Augustine is looking chiefly to the firm's non-defence businesses, which will account for a third of sales after the merger.
Sorrell is going to buy companies in these high-growth regions--including central and eastern Europe--until they account for a third of the group's total business.
He pointed out that France is home to 20, 000 foreign companies that employ about two million French people and account for a third of its industrial exports.
Sadly, the United States, where innovation-intensive industries account for one third of GDP, looks set to keep taking one step backward for every step forward in that drive.
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That Asia (from India to Japan) should now be jostling to account for a third of world output is, he notes, neither miraculous (three-fifths of mankind lives there), nor even new.
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Meningiomas account for a third of primary brain tumours.
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The volume of mobile phone calls and text messages is expected to grow by 25% over the next three years and that is not taking into account the new third generation services.
The hackers then used those login details to forward all mail coming into the account to a third party, or in some cases gathered information about contacts to use in other phishing scams.
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Currently, the top five companies that account for a third of stock holdings, he says, are non-Hyundai blue chips SK Telecom, power utility KEPCO, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and steel giant POSCO.
The goal is to stem the rising tide of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, including those known as repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries, that account for one third of all occupational injuries reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics each year.
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"Between us, we account for a third of world trade, so if we really got together and liberalized trade between the European Union and the United States of America, we could make both our peoples a lot better off, " he said.
Doing it will not be easy, because the top chaebol remain powerful (the four biggest account for a third of domestic output) and because competition will accelerate bankruptcies and lay-offs, bringing large-scale unemployment to the country for the first time in 20 years.
America's stockmarket bubble has been partly financed by foreigners, notably the Japanese, who account for one-third of the world's savings.
Twice each week she accepts deliveries of some three-dozen cases of beer, and weekends account for about a third of her beer sales.
Kearney, a consultancy, reckons this market could account for almost a third of all music sales by 2006 if it is priced attractively.
The hijackings account for one-third of all global piracy incidents this year and the situation is getting out of control, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
Mr. Dell has tried to position Dell as something other than a PC company, pointing out that the machines account for just a third of Dell's profits.
According to the International Air Transport Association, this is because upper-class passengers, although a small minority among international air travelers, account for almost a third of airline revenues.
According to the Census Bureau, minorities currently account for one-third of U.S. residents, and that proportion is expected to be close to half of all U.S. residents by 2050.
Farmers, too, have been quick to use the crisis as a reason to ask for extra help even though subsidies already account for about a third of their income.
The number of people over 60 is calculated to rise by 200, 000 a year until 2015, when they will account for one-third of the total registered population in the city.
Both sides declared cease-fires on Monday, and President Boris Trajkovski said he would consider upgrading the status of the ethnic Albanians, who account for nearly a third of Macedonia's two million people.
Two years ago, the government required China's 1, 000 largest industrial consumers--which account for about a third of all Chinese energy demand--to establish their own programs and auditing systems to meet efficiency standards.
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