From 1990 to date, the two decades of explosive growth since the effective launch of the Internet as we know it, Web traffic grew a staggering one-million-fold from a puny 48 terabytes a year (a few desktops now contain that much data) to an astronomical 60 exabytes.
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How can such a puny manufacturing base ever aspire to close such a gaping deficit?
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But only the United Arab Emirates, with a relatively puny 2.4 million barrels a day, are on the right side of the choke point: on the wrong side are Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and Iran.
When he lifted off last Thursday afternoon, climbing aloft on a column of hellfire that made his puny Atlas look like a sparkler, the nation paid attention in a way it hadn't in decades.
Now, on its very anniversary (oh cruel irony), the portfolio--all tech stocks--is up a puny 41%.
Personal consumption grew a puny 1.3% in Q2, and housing construction, as you might have guessed, sank 7.5%.
Five tiny holes are drilled on the other side of the bottom, making up a puny speaker grille.
The cap for 2004 was a puny 65, 000 (versus the previous year's 195, 000) and was exhausted on Feb. 17.
But with a puny navy, Vietnam's options are limited to shaking its fist and trying to rally international opinion.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch investable hedge fund composite index has returned a puny 1.69% this year through November 21.
Edison conceivably could add scrubbers to the plants, but at a puny 155 megawatts each they are too small to support the cost.
Despite the financial sophistication of the territory's investors, and the fact that most of the region's fund managers are based there, Hong Kong still has a puny retail-fund sector.
It has 8 gigabytes (GB) of flash storage and 512 megabytes of RAM, which is a bit puny.
Its battery is an 80 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery made by A123 Systems that powers a 70-kilowatt motor (that translates to a pretty puny 93 horsepower).
And you should never doubt the powers of reinvention of a once rather puny Austrian.
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From the clear appeal of a stock that pays you for holding it at a time of puny interest rates, to the likelihood of higher taxes on those payouts due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the capital companies deploy to shareholders in the form of dividends has become something of an 800-pound gorilla.
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The Berkshire Hathaway meeting's expected all-time record attendance, which is bound to do wonders for Omaha's economy over the very short run, is a far cry from the puny 12 people ("including my relatives, " Buffett told Forbes) that didn't even fill a small room back in 1982, in the days before Buffett became widely known as the Sage of Omaha.
As it stands, puny ISPs pay for services without a clue about how the terms compare.
It is estimated that by the end of this year it will be producing 10 million pairs a day, still puny in terms of the 63 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks used each year in China.
The puny Elwha dams, which produce a mere 28.6 megawatts of electricity compared with the 7, 000 megawatts generated by the Columbia's Grand Coulee Dam alone, would not seem to have much relevance to a discussion of Columbia dams.
Puny humans can quickly deduce the direction of a sound and assess its significance, while also ignoring unimportant background noise.
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Puny yields and potential capital losses make them a terrible investment.
There is no way to eliminate risk from a bond portfolio without settling for the puny 1.7% yield available on Treasury bills.
While you are there, using a powerful flashlight (not one of those puny ones) check for water spots.
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The state's otherwise puny Republicans have the power to block tax increases, which require a two-thirds majority vote.
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Mr Ambani had the insight to realise that a firm which helped to foster India's then puny petrochemicals market could come to dominate it.
It is both a small sovereign state with an impressive diplomatic service, and a transnational non-government organisation that makes every other NGO seem puny.
France, after all, is a nuclear power with its permanent seat in the Security Council, while Germany is militarily puny and diplomatically still nervous.
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