How many workers' protests? Who jailed their organizers?

How many mining accidents were there?

The story of debriefing provides a salutary lesson. First, people are more resilient than we give them credit for.

The story of debriefing provides a salutary lesson.

There's been quite a series of accidents lately.

Likewise, closer to home, as many as half of our discoveries of new medicines have originated from accidents.

There were fewer accidents this year than last.

Flying in darkness without adequate training is a major cause of light aircraft accidents.

Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.

Male elephants are too tired and busy to reproduce and can even die from logging accidents.

Thousands of accidents have happened on Havana s Malecón, but even so, no one is afraid of it.

The physical appearance of female victims and survivors of rape, accidents or other incidents is referred to in many articles in the Sinhala press.

Lower intelligence in early life is associated with a greater likelihood of dying from, for example, cardiovascular disease, accidents, suicide, and homicide.

Cutting speed limits to, say, 10 kilometers per hour would prevent most accidents and save many lives.

The rewards to be gained by deregulating product markets are very large.

The economic benefits of broadband are immense.

The benefits from these reforms are two fold.

All of the benefits of growth have gone to the top.

Able to make millions laugh at the height of their misery.

Moreover, the benefits of the growth have been shared.

They created accounts of young men who died serving in the armed forces during peace time as a result of hazing or commanders' mistakes.

The potential gains from a larger female workforce are striking.

The benefits of driving moderately fast vastly outweigh the costs.

Indeed, the economic benefits of a global academic culture are significant.

The benefits of conservation to the world as a whole far exceed the value of exploitation to a country like Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Even though China instituted new initiatives in industrial safety at the beginning of 2003, official estimates indicate that industrial accident deaths increased by almost 10 last year.

Although the imperfectly synchronized economic cycles of EU members causes friction over monetary and exchange rate policy, the euro's benefits outweigh the costs of diversity.

At the same time, more than 40 of Germany s adult population (pensioners, social welfare recipients, unemployed, accident victims, students) receives some form of state transfer income, especially those in eastern Germany, while the burden of taxes and social security contributions on those in employment is high.

Xiang said she had suffered two miserable marriages.

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The benefits of this will more than compensate for the economic costs of enlargement.

The benefits of phasing out tobacco consumption could not be more compelling.

While Jordan's access to discounted Iraqi oil was clear for all to see, the benefits to Iraq have not been as visible. Observers interpret al Khatib's comments as a reference to the passage of vast amounts of luxury goods through Jordan into Iraq, one of the means by which Saddam has been able to reward his followers.

Nevertheless, the global gains from allowing freer flows of unskilled labor (even temporarily), let alone the benefits to developing countries, far outweigh the benefits from capital market liberalization.

While Jordan's access to discounted Iraqi oil was clear for all to see, the benefits to Iraq have not been as visible.

The benefits of Cyprus s adoption of the euro may never be clear.

Immediate welfare costs, for example, can be passed on to the next generation, which will encompass these immigrants' children.

Moreover, the benefits of slower population growth outweigh the adjustment costs.

But even at the top, there seems to be a small benefit to being in a more equal society.

More importantly, immigration's overall benefits outstrip the costs.

That will leave the world with unhappy Russians, unhappy Ukrainians, and unhappy Europeans whose sense of confidence and support for peaceful democratic institutions will weaken.

Yet virtually every study of global inequality suggests that gains from allowing greater labor mobility dwarf gains from redistributing income among natives.

On both counts, the new member states expected to benefit substantially from the EU system.

Now, unfortunately, even the economic benefits of EU membership seem unclear.

Equally important are immigration s benefits for America s soft power.