The central government collects revenues equivalent to a mere 14% of GDP, which greatly constrains its policy options.
Dr Armentrout points out that IBM's ASCI White, the fastest computer in the world, has a power equivalent to a mere 30,000 desktop machines.
Update: Google has responded to The Times article, stating that a single search is actually equivalent to a mere 0.2 grams of CO2.
In other places he says things that suggest that the illusion of an object appearing blue should not be grouped together with veridical perception, for he says that an experience as of blue is equivalent to the mere disjunction 'Either I actually see an optical object that is blue in colour, or I am in some situation… that is to me like that one' (1967b, 12).
LEVEL OF VITRIOL The fact that a mere $5, equivalent to a couple of trips to the wrong A.T.M., set off this firestorm suggests that something else may be going on.
Reducing the renewable-fuel standard by a mere 20 percent — equivalent to about a billion bushels of corn — would offset nearly half of the expected crop loss due to the drought.
Of the total worth of the worker's labour, however, this compensation, in Marxian theory, accounts for only a mere portion, equivalent to the worker's means of subsistence.
Rethink Robotics' Baxter, a dexterous factory robot that can be programmed by grabbing its arms and guiding it through the motions, sells for a mere $25,000 (equivalent to about $4 an hour over a lifetime of work, according to a Stanford University study).
This was well ahead of growth in the 15 "old" European Union states, which was a mere 0.5%, and nearly equivalent to that of Japan.
