The amount that any individual can give to another with no gift-tax consequences rose to $11,000 this year, after remaining at $10,000 for many years.
Although higher temperatures are the most obvious and predictable result of increased CO2, other, second-order consequences — rising sea levels, changes in vegetation, loss of snow cover — are likely to be just as significant.
But, as the Mayor pointed out, New York, a flood-prone coastal city, is vulnerable to one of global warming's most destructive — and most certain — consequences: rising sea levels.
The survival rate for premature infants born in these hospitals has, as a consequence, risen from 24% to 65%.All of this is good, of course, and may end up justifying the original investment.
As a consequence, rising stocks imply swelling forward earnings per share ratios.
The earth's rotation has begun to slow in Walker's stirring first novel, with dire consequences: oceans rise, crops fail, people panic.
In this regard, it has been described that not only acute NF-κB activation is related with disease but also subtle changes in NF-κB activity that persist in time have important biological consequences, giving rise to chronic inflammatory conditions.
We face many challenges in the 21 st century as a consequence of rising population, rising affluence, and energy requirements and global climate changes.
In all but the poorest countries, obesity and its consequences -- rising rates of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and so on -- are overtaking malnutrition as major health problems.
