China wants the U.S. economy to prosper because that means China will be able to continue exporting here.
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Because that means we will use Internet-based information for many more purposes, which will have a bigger role in society.
So thank you for accepting me as a songwriter, not just as a singer, because that means the world to me.
Seventy-five percent is a magic number in my mind -- 70-75 percent -- because that means the cost of electricity of photovoltaics is less than the cost of new fossil energy.
Oil in the Caspian region is now channeled principally through pipelines to Russian Black Sea ports, and Moscow wants to keep it that way, because that means it controls the flow.
The more that we are moving our young people into these areas, the better off this economy is going to be, because that means we're producing engineers, we're producing scientists, we're producing computer programmers.
Mr. MUKHLIS: I really--I don't like that notion at all because that means there's going to be a lot of disgruntled Iraqis that are going to increase and escalate the turmoil and the violence that we've been seeing.
But in some ways, that's a healthy thing, because what that means is in 2012, as Harvey just said, we realize this is about us.
That is important because it means that there is no hoarding, typically a prerequisite for a speculative bubble.
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And as a commander of a headquarters' company over there, when we thought about doing a surge in Ramadi, it concerned me greatly when they talk about putting the Iraqi army at the tip of any spear, because that really means American support units are at the tip of the spear.
And I think it's important to hold that in mind, because it means that the central question in this issue - which is whether this was part of a larger conspiracy, whether this reflects a new tactic by an extremist Islamist organization that has now decided to target soldiers on the streets of the UK - that question remains unanswered.
But that's a good thing because it means that everyone has protected themselves.
He notes that such actions are actually harmful because it means that farmers receive lower prices and people are deterred from investing in food production.
We got to the semis in this tournament a lot, I think over 20 times, and it's great to be able to do that because it means you played pretty good, and that's what we're trying to do, play good and get ready for, unfortunately, the only thing that matters, next week.
And that is a great strength of the United States, because it means that we learn from different cultures and different foods and different ideas, and that has made us a much more dynamic society.
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We've drained inventories to such an extreme that the cupboard is bare in many industries, and that's music to an economist's ears, because it means that regardless of what happens in Washington, the cupboard needs to be replenished.
Astrobiologists like the idea that life can be built with a completely different set of chemical building blocks because it means that life could then exist in all sorts of places that Earth-based living things would find intolerable.
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Salmon mentions a man -- a complete stranger -- who contacted him to say that he's homeless, but mowed lawns to raise money to give to the project because it means that much to him.
The Americans are delighted because it means that far more American airlines can expect access to London Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport.
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Because it means that strategic thinking and careful resource allocation often go unrewarded, as a quirk of terrain breaks up a carefully planned manoeuvre.
Usually when a business sees a surge in customer demand, it increases production and expands to fill that demand, because that increased demand means more profits.
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This is a good thing because it means that because they are a return on your investment, they are not taxed when they are distributed to you.
Sweet, because it means that economic recovery has already begun.
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This is the gold standard for medical research, because it means that whether or not they got the multivitamin was the only difference between the drug and placebo groups.
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This separation of church and state is really important because it means that when you open your notebook, your focus is undiluted by reminders to do this or that later on.
But they say this is an advantage, because it means that cancer cells can be identified without having to pin down the precise molecular markers which make them different from healthy cells.
It is also a huge boon to the domestic steel industry, because it means that we need a lot of steel, now, in the United States, to the east of the Rockies.
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"Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.
This is especially worrying because it means that, despite holding its own rates to record lows and feeding money into the economy through quantitative easing, the Bank of England is ever less able to offset tight fiscal policy with loose money.
It is a strange and slightly ghoulish idea, because it means that if a patient tries to flex his missing finger, for example, a muscle in another part of his body (which is now connected to the nerves that used to control the finger) contracts instead.
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