Professor Roark says knowing the age of the corals might help scientists understand earlier water conditions and ocean surface productivity.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Experts say hoarseness costs several billion dollars a year in lost productivity from people missing work.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Last April, Australia's Productivity Commission considered the cost of bullying in a report on workplace safety.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

But experts say productivity suffers in workplaces where employers tolerate or accept bullying.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

The answer is simple. The United States is the only country in the world today which has the economic power and productivity to furnish the needed assistance.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

Such fishing harms the productivity of fisheries, and hurts developing countries especially.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

The government says productivity jumped in July, August and September.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

"Just helping women farmers have the same access to inputs and control of resources that male farmers have would really do a lot in terms of improving agriculture productivity, reducing hunger and malnutrition."

VOA: special.2011.03.22

To me,that incremental loss of productivity may be well worth it for the team-building elements of the social connections.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The U.N.says they include loss of productivity and family income, as well as violence, security problems and traffic and workplace accidents.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria costs Africa an estimated $12 billion a year in health expenditures and lost productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Workers generally spend about 90 minutes a week on the pool, and studies say that reduces productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Nwanze says with more support, smallholder farmers can increase their productivity to produce a food surplus.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

A study by the U.S.Centers for Disease Control reports that medical care and the loss of worker productivity averages about $3,000 annually for each smoker.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

You are stopping the productivity of the country. You are really blocking the production and this is not the kind of development we are looking for,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

He says the economy is growing for the first time in a year, productivity is surging, companies are reporting profits and the stock market is showing gains.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

And rural agri-businesses can mean a pathway out of poverty, There has been much controversy and opposition over the use of genetically modified crops as a means of boosting productivity.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

And that higher morale can translate into even greater productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

But he says too much help will hinder productivity.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Of the one million malaria deaths each year, Experts say malaria victims occupy 60 percent of available hospital beds on the continent and reduce economic productivity by $12 billion per year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted, critics say France Telecom's problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

"The prediction is that in the next 20 years to 30 years, if the situation continues to get worse, the productivity from the agricultural sector and from subsistence farming in Africa, the production would reduce by as much as 50 percent,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

So this is a timely opportunity to remind the world how agricultural biodiversity can improve productivity and nutrition,enhance livelihoods, respond to environmental challenges and deliver food security, Last July,the G8 summit in L'Aquila,Italy, issued a statement saying, There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

And I think that will stand the test of time." State Department officials traveling with Secretary Clinton say she also discussed the Group of Eight leading industrialized nation's That money is in addition to emergency humanitarian programs, and is meant to fight hunger by enabling small farmers to produce more of their own food by improving productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16