Consider Islam.

Take a closer look.

Examine this.

Consider the following facts.

Consider Green GDP.

Consider three examples.

Consider my request.

Consider also the credit markets.

Look at it closely.

Look at it closely.

Now consider recent financial innovations.

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To see why, consider Nigeria.

To see this, consider North Sea cod.

Also, consider a power of attorney for your finances.

Consider Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of America s nuclear navy.

Consider, first, the recent nuclear agreement signed between the US and India.

To see why, consider health or life insurance.

Consider Yasuhiro Nakasone, Koizumi s predecessor in the 1980 s.

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Or consider bankruptcies and defaults by households and firms.

Consider also what is happening to private consumption and retail sales.

To see why, consider such a regime from an individual's standpoint.

Consider the dubious results from the G 8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.

Consider a drug based on traditional knowledge, say, of an herb well known for its medicinal properties.

But look at the Doha agenda with a more detached set of eyes, and you wonder what all the fuss is about.

Consider the proposal to link the SGP to the Lisbon agenda, which contains more than 100 indicators.

Consider São Paulo, the world's fourth largest city and my home.

Consider a Japanese firm seeking to make the highest yen profits on goods sold in Switzerland.

Consider my country, Iran, which has not invaded any country in the past 250 years. After decades of struggle against dictatorship and foreign domination, we secured our freedom and independence in 1979 by establishing a political system of our own choosing.

Consider one of the most significant steps taken to respond to climate change.

Consider my country, Iran, which has not invaded any country in the past 250 years.

Consider Vista, yet another great new operating system that Microsoft rolled out this year, together with Office 2007.

Consider the oil crisis that began in November 1973, resulting in a world stock market crash and a sharp world recession.

Or consider Tony Blair s landslide victory in 2001, when Labour won 40 of the vote with turnout of 60 .

Then consider Poland, where the Kaczynski twins, who hold the presidency and the prime ministership, have allied themselves with populist, xenophobic, and anti Semitic parties.

Consider Vista, yet another great new operating system that Microsoft rolled out this year, together with Office 2007.

If you look at the relations between Obama and Prime Minister Netanjahu, Obama is really not quite so enthused by Netanjahu's policies.

Consider this according to the World Value Survey, whereas 60 of Americans believe that the poor are lazy, only 26 of Europeans hold this belief.

Consider the recent threats to cut Ethiopia s aid, which is on the order of 15 per Ethiopian per year much of it actually paid to US and European consultants.

To understand the reasons behind all this, consider what factors are in play when a firm chooses the currency it uses to invoice for goods.

Consider catastrophe bonds (or cat bonds ), which contain clauses that stipulate that the issuer of the bond (the borrower) does not have to repay the money if a specified catastrophe occurs.

Consider the old metaphysical puzzle is a wooden boat whose planks are gradually replaced as they decay the same boat after all the planks have been changed?

Consider, for example, the real possibility that a large indebted financial institution faces a run on its deposits, as Lehman did, and starts dumping loans onto the market. Not only will those loans price fall if only a few entities have the spare funds to buy them, but other distressed entities scramble to borrow also will make it hard for any institution without funds to obtain them.

Consider the issue of whether countries should fund health care publicly, through taxes, or privately, through health insurance and user fees. Private health insurance has proved enormously wasteful, with large administrative expenditures on activities that include developing insurance packages, marketing those packages, and assessing claims.