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In five years, US net obligations to the rest of the world will grow from one eighth of its GDP in 1997 to two fifths of a much larger product, according to Goldman Sachs. By 2006, a sum of $2 billion dollars per day would be required to cover this yawning shortfall.
By 1997, in the wake of globalization’s rapid advance, the gulf had widened in only seven years to a ratio of seventy-four to one. Even this appalling fact does not take into account the steady impoverishment of the majority of the remaining billions of human beings trapped in the relentlessly narrowing isthmus between these two extremes.
You realise that the reading-room into which Soames was projected by the Devil was in all respects precisely as it will be on the afternoon of June 3, 1997. You realise, therefore, that on that afternoon, when it comes round, there the self-same crowd will be, and there Soames too will be, punctually, he and they doing precisely what they did before.
During the ILO Symposium on Multimedia Convergence held in January 1997, Peter Leisink, Associate Professor of Labour Studies at the Utrecht University, Netherlands, explained: "A survey of the United Kingdom book publishing industry showed that proofreaders and editors have been externalized and now work as home-based teleworkers.
2007/04: 1,500 books in Project Gutenberg of Australia. 2007: Digitization of 338 books per month. 2008/03: 100 books in Project Gutenberg of Canada. 2008/04: 25,000 books in Project Gutenberg. 2008/05: 500 books in Project Gutenberg Europe. *All the stats below are the main Project Gutenberg stats. = A Few Milestones 1,000 books in August 1997. 2,000 books in May 1999.
Only gold medal Kyoto Exhibition of Aerial Appliances, 1997. C. M. C. Our Synthetical Mineral BEARINGS are chemically and crystal logically identical with the minerals whose names they bear. Any size, any surface. Diamond, Rock-Crystal, Agate and Ruby Bearings-cups, caps and collars for the higher speeds. For tractor bearings and spindles-Imperative. For rear propellers-Indispensable.
As it has been based in the United States since 1971, it has focused on the English-speaking community in the country and worldwide. Multilingualism started in 1997. In October 1997, Michael Hart expressed his intention to include books in other languages. In July 1999, Michael wrote: "I am publishing in one new language per month right now, and will continue as long as possible."
More and more digital libraries are offering texts in languages other than English. Project Gutenberg is now developing its foreign collections, as announced in the Project Gutenberg Newsletter of October 1997.
Tom Coryat, the eccentric English traveler, gives a curious account of the splendor and refinement displayed by the demi-monde of the lagoons, and Marston describes Venice as a school of luxury in which the monstrous Aretine played professor. Of the state of morals in Florence Savonarola's sermons give the best picture. Infessura, p. 1997.
The number of its subscribers jumped from 100,000 in 1996 to 600,000 in 1997. The abyss between the "info-rich" and the "info-poor" is not only the one dividing developed and developing countries. In any country, there are gaps between the rich and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the people who belong to society and the people who are rejected by it.
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