…on the amount of water that should have been diverted south by water operators: “180,000 to 200,000 acre-feet of water was allowed to flow out to the sea instead of…

…Census Bureau, ODM had recorded on computer tapes a vast amount of information about the US economy and population: “the precise location, shipments and employment of approximately 20,000 manufacturing plants…

…From 1903 to 1979, the U.S. government exercised quasi-sovereign power within the Canal Zone (more than 500 square miles) and managed water across an even larger swath of Panama. According…

…“all the markings of state-sponsored attack.” The breach had resulted, USIS said, in the disclosure of about 25,000 federal employees’ records. One can only imagine the difficult conversations that must…

…between rebel factions and the ruling government of the fictional country of Changa, 200,000 refugees fled to neighboring countries where they faced starvation and disease. Hundreds of US Peace Corps…

…lines outstanding only $800 billion was reportedly in use. So in the spring of 2009, with unemployment and bankruptcy on the rise, the card companies started to purge their books…

…accounts, Safaricom was established in 1997 as a subsidiary of the parastatal Telkom; in 2000, the United Kingdom-based Vodafone acquired 40% of the shares and the authorization to autonomously manage…

…future contingencies, rather than for a single predetermined objective (as had been the case in World War II). Using the Bombing Encyclopedia, he explained, one could screen the 70,000 potential…

…“federation.” Figure 3. “The Unique ID Agencies” from UIDAI Strategy Overview, April 2010. When pyramids do appear in UIDAI’s self-representation, these are often turned on their side; it is less…

…up tasks, choosing workers, communicating with workers, and deciding who gets paid and who doesn’t – must be manageable for someone who might commission 10,000 workers in the span of…

…of people living beyond the national grid. More than 3,000 micro-hydropower projects capable of generating an estimated 48 megawatts have been built to date, constituting roughly 5 percent of Nepal’s…

…Twitter on their homepage, Twitter Trends digests the 250 million tweets sent every day and indexes the most vigorously discussed terms at that moment, either globally or for a user’s…

…their managers, their partners and mothers, and all other nondevelopers, the systems they build can even resemble the stuff of magic. After starting fieldwork at Noah’s workplace—a large (1000-plus employee)…

…decommodification, and the inclusion or exclusion of different groups. Mumbai’s public water system, comprising more than 4,000 kilometers of pipe, has recently been the target of reform proposals that aim…

…500 species have been observed on the territory. Shrimp ponds (gei wai) on the Pearl River Delta around the village of Mai Po have been transformed by the World Wildlife…

…back some 5,000 to 6,000 years, with oil palm fossil pollen identified in Miocene layers in the Niger Delta and archeological evidence of an oil palm trade among third-millennium Egyptians…

…bring down the entire system or market” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_risk, accessed November 20, 2010). Frank Knight formulated the classic distinction between risk and uncertainty. Here is Knight’s delineation of the two concepts….

…the Geneva meeting believed that serological epidemiology would play a critical role in attempts to harness emerging insights in biomedicine for the management of future outbreaks. The following year, in…

…is not immediately discernible. With its rural surroundings and its 1,400 inhabitants, the town of Viviez has managed to keep a quiet atmosphere despite the presence of several factories and…

…as managers, the data that they have collected. In management term, commanders are made accountable for the decrease of crime in their precinct, and must be able to show that…

…about 359,000 come from cardiovascular diseases, about 217,000 from cancer, 4968 from traffic accidents, 461 from HIV/AIDS and zero from SARS or Avian Flu” (Keil 2010). Here, coming from one…

…military command center in Liberia involving 3,000 personnel: “Our troops are going to bring in their expertise in command and control, logistics and engineering, and our armed services are better…

…economist who was a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics at the time. The Institute, now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was founded in 1981.[2] Circa 1979-80,…

…predecessors, and driving 800,000 less miles per year: “that’s 300 less coast-to-coast hauls!” says the narrator (assuming roughly 3000 miles per haul, it would be closer to 160 hauls, but…

…energy, and the security of supply. They signal the need to improve connectivity across a geographical space. More than half (60%) of the 100 bottlenecks that the TYNDP (European Network…

…and for the more than 2,000 future connections to the water line. On that basis, it proposed a slightly amended extraction rate. Community members, activists, and NGOs challenged the certainty…