涅槃 | niè pán | nirvana (Buddhism) | |
康涅狄格州 | kāng niè dí gé zhōu | Connecticut, US state | |
涅瓦河 | niè wǎ hé | Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg) | |
涅磐 | niè pán | variant of 涅槃 | |
沃罗涅日 | wò luó niè rì | Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia |
1 | Mnemosyne, whose name is spelled with some difficulty, is spelled on the lower part of your handout. | |
2 | Kuznets' idea, presented to Congress that year, was simple: Measure all production by companies, people, and government. | |
3 | So much of what we see around us is motivated by well-intentioned folks, like ourselves, looking for nirvana out there. | |
4 | The idea of a single number to show a country' s economic power came from US economist Simon Kuznets. | |
5 | Last year the Nenets arrived at a regular summer camping spot and discovered that half of their lake had disappeared. |