So what was once a vanishingly rare event becomes a rare one, then a common one.
Compared to the consumer surplus from innovation the retention of profits by the innovators is vanishingly small.
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By turning the Tories right, she led Labour there too, leaving the differences between the parties vanishingly small.
Thanks to Iraq's vanishingly narrow tax base, oil accounts for almost all of the government's projected 2004 revenues.
If that is so, nations such as Japan and Britain will continue to carry their debt at vanishingly low interest cost.
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Opponents contend that the type of fraud these laws would prevent, in which one person impersonates another at the polls, is vanishingly rare.
Only a vanishingly small fraction of prehistoric animals died in the perfect conditions--including a swift cover of sediment--necessary to fossilize bones in the first place.
West Kent's grammar schools are so competitive and so good that several fee-paying primary schools have sprung up to prepare pupils for the tests a phenomenon vanishingly rare elsewhere.
They may not, however, select students: they are required to take the most local ones, even when an academy replaces that vanishingly rare thing, a failing church school.
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Unless we assume that entrepreneurs are crazy, the fact that the probability of windfall profits is vanishingly small for the vast majority of ventures only adds to this argument.
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Even that window was vanishingly small, and it closed in 1998 with the Lewinsky revelations and the hothouse insanity of impeachment, in which Gingrich was a full participant and which helped cost him his job.
Verifying identity comes down to making the probabilistic determination that the risk of the claimant NOT in fact being the one he claims to be is vanishingly small or, at least, too negligible to be worth bothering about.
The first is that although the West is safe in the sense that the existential threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power or a first strike by a nuclear-armed aggressor is now vanishingly small, the rise of jihadist terrorism has left people feeling vulnerable.
Unfortunately, the math shows that even if there are a few of those brilliant stockpickers around, a vanishingly small number can do it consistently for more than a few years in a row, and you have no way of knowing which ones that will be in advance.
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Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
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