The European Union (EU) moratorium on approving GM crops has certainly had tangible consequences in poor countries.
Devils' general manager Lou Lamoriello praised his impact both on and off the ice: "Certainly (the tangibles were) the quality player he was even at that time, how good he was defensively as well as always finding a way to get big goals.
Every troop movement was precisely timed, and there would be full use of air support and artillery, in a design that would unfold over a wide terrain and, no matter what the opposition might be, would almost certainly produce the tangible result of evacuating several thousand hostile civilians, thereby depriving the V.C. of hundreds of "structures," even if the "infrastructure" was not present.
In this paper, I start by considering the direct impact of immigration on the likelihood that a woman chooses to both give birth and participate in the labor market shortly thereafter, certainly a more tangible measure of mother-worker role compatibility.
Returns on tangible equity certainly will go down.
Now they have turned their sights on something more tangible, and certainly more down to earth: infrastructure projects in the United States and foreign countries.
Such tangible payoffs certainly counter the findings of a widely reported study, published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal, which concluded that exercise didn't help alleviate depression.
Citizenship is "an accident of birth", a "foundation and connection to the earth", or "something ephemeral and only occasionally tangible" – but certainly not to be equated with blind patriotism.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but for now there is certainly at least one tangible impact.
But, the statistics are tangible and certainly disturbing, and they start immediately at birth.
