Focus Rule
Small inputs compound.
A sharper routine beats a louder ambition when the clock starts keeping score.
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August 6, 2010
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
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Poland
- GDP/capita
- $25,104
- Pop.
- 36.6M
- Inflation
- 3.8%
- Unemp.
- 3.0%
- Tax
- 18.0%
- Life exp.
- 78.4
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