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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes, along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. In practice it would be difficult to write literature that drew on just one of the four basic modes.

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Global Warming

Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun’s energy varied. But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth’s climate: humanity.

 

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. Cases are rising daily in Africa the Americas, and Europe.
 
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Oil prices are expected to soften in 2020 from an average of $62 per barrel in 2019 to $58 in 2020 due to weaker demand.[xii] Supply shortages in Russia, Venezuela and the Middle East may have masked a softening this year.
The new steel and aluminum tariffs levied against Brazil and Argentina are intended to counter severe devaluations of currencies that have artificially boosted exports. Metal prices which increased 4% in 2019 are expected to drop 6% next year. Some metals such as nickel and copper have been volatile this year. However, IMF expects iron ore and nickel prices to rally. After contracting in 2019, food prices are expected to rise 2.8% in 2020.
China
The Chinese economy is also skittish, and a downturn there could precipitate a global recession.
The U.S. and China have announced agreement of a “phase-one trade” deal. While markets have responded favorably, the deal focused on U.S. agriculture exports and doesn’t move the needle for other sectors such as manufacturing. Even if a more substantive deal is reached, complex disagreement will persist – including subsidies of state-run companies and technology transfers. As we approach 2020, China is redirecting its exports to Korea, Vietnam and Mexico.
In Q3, China’s economy grew at the slowest rate in three decades as companies ratcheted back investment.[xiii] State-run companies have a return on capital that is about half of U.S. companies. There is significant movement within the Chinese economy, where the service sector now represents 46% of employment.[xiv]