And it's the sort of two together that are making for the kind of complex world that we're living in today.
In the world of business, like in the world of politics, we always have two announcements these days.
Compare that to a century ago: people did indeed still starve in the streets in what are now rich parts of the world: two centuries ago we still had at least occasional outbreaks of widespread famine among those at the bottom, those at the not-interesting end of the inequality gap.
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At the end of these two days, we will all own a set of ideas that will change the world.
We need to take responsibility for the fact that we are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
And it is very important that as two of the largest economies in the world, that we work to establish clear rules of the road internationally for trade and investment, which can increase prosperity and global growth.
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Over the past two years, we have had the privilege of traveling around the country and around the world, visiting with service members and their families, and hearing their stories firsthand.
Add in China and South Africa, and two-thirds (by economic weight) of the world that we track now has a potential housing bubble.
Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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As I have written elsewhere, we see two kinds of organizations in the world today: those that are trying to make money off you and those that that focused on delivering value to you.
"We can't forget it was the quarter-final of the World Cup and we scored five tries to two, " said White.
We are one of the top two game system manufacturers in the world and one of the top two game publishers in the world.
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As two global partners, we stand up for the security and the dignity of people around the world.
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We probably have the best coordination and cooperation of any two countries in the world.
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"We are very fortunate to have two of the five best drivers in the world in our cars, " Dennis said.
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The point is that administrations are always crafting long-term spending plans for defense and other facets of federal activity, and those plans almost never work out the way they were expected to because we live in a world of two-year political cycles and great global volatility.
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Winding up for the government, defence minister Lord Astor of Hever said Remembrance Day did not just mark the two world wars but "the loss and debt we feel to all those who have died in the service of their country".
And two, as our world grows ever more complex and interconnected, we need to develop the habit of looking at new sources of information to prompt our own brains to consider innovative possibilities.
And that is an illustration of the fact that it is not always best to try to address two challenges with what in the policy world we call a single-policy instrument.
Well the talk of the Countess of Wessex' incautious remarks has been an enormous story two weekends running and as we saw just then last Sunday we had an authorised interview in the News of the World while other papers carried a string of embarrassing stories about what Sophie Rhys Jones was reputed to have told the undercover reporter.
On the one hand, we have the collective experience of dozens of governments (practically the whole world) over two centuries and more.
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