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A newer technology leaves the surface untouched by pumping steam into the subsoil.
The more we steam headlong into the future, the more we amalgamate the data and detritus of the past and place it irrevocably into the present.
The commercial potential of the Internet, the human genome project, and robotics pales in comparison with that of the spinning jenny, the steam engine, and indoor plumbing.
There, it was just letting off steam, no different from cheering or booing; or it was a “legitimate” tactic, no different from needling an opponent by challenging his manhood.
The growth model responsible for its rapid rise has run out of steam.
In 2008, there was an attempt to revive the peace effort, after the moderate Demetris Christofias replaced Tassos Papadopoulos as the Greek Cypriot president; but the process soon lost steam.
But there is no doubt that the risks we face merit a more holistic approach, much like what was called for immediately after the 2008 crisis (though those calls lost steam as markets recovered).
And, despite catastrophic natural disasters, nuclear saber-rattling on the Korean Peninsula, escalating power politics between oil producers in the Middle East, worries about Chinese debt, and the slow-motion collapse of Venezuela, the global economic recovery continued to gain steam.
Experience tells us that if you don’t let the steam out of a pot, the pot will explode.
This date also happens to coincide with James Watt’s design of the steam engine in 1784.
Let us hope that the more constructive spirit pervading the rest of the region finally seeps into BiH, and that inter-ethnic initiatives gain steam, as a large part of Bosnian civil society has long advocated.
But conventional geothermal power requires a natural source of large quantities of steam or hot water, and such sources are usually found only in volcanic regions, which rules out its use in large parts of the world.
But, with no natural steam or hot water to bring the energy to the surface, an engineered solution is needed, and, during the past 35 years, more than $600 million has been spent worldwide devising one.
Recent US data have clearly raised the probability that the economy will run out of steam and decline during the next 12 months.
But the Europeans have no such leverage at the Fund, where Rato has elected to go out under his own steam.
By the nineteenth century, the development of steam and other transport meant that one-third of the population of Scandinavia, Ireland, and parts of Italy emigrated.
Even in countries that are doing well, industrialization is running out of steam much faster than it did in previous episodes of catch-up growth – a phenomenon that I have called premature deindustrialization.
When the L&M Railway eventually opened in 1830, it was a revolutionary success, kickstarting the age of steam and changing the world in ways that could not have been foreseen.
A technological breakthrough – the steam engine, computers, the Internet – may play a leading role.
As intellectual property rights become more secure, China’s new growth engines can gain substantial steam.
The EU's Catch-22COPENHAGEN: Worrying signs are mounting that the European Union’s enlargement process is losing steam.
Should the world steam head-on into another Kyoto Protocol-style agreement?
Accession talks with the European Union had not begun;Turkey wanted an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan; the resolution condemning the Armenian genocide had not gathered steam around the world;Turkey’s economy was not in crisis; and Georgia-Russia tensions were not in free-fall.
At least some of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) appear to be running out of steam economically; and, while new emerging powers, such as Mexico, are tempting, they may prove to be more fragile than they look.
From the steam engine to the personal computer, inventions have transformed societies in complex ways.
Unfortunately, the recovery is liable to run out of steam, and may even be followed by a second economic downturn, though I am not sure whether it will occur in 2010 or 2011.
Its growth model, based largely on exporting cheap manufactured goods to developed countries, is running out of steam.
King Abdullah’s reform efforts – especially those aimed at curbing the power of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi-Salafi religious establishment – have lost steam, and the deaths of two crown princes have complicated the inter-generational transfer of power.
Given these governments’ complex strategies for regulating what their citizens do online – ranging from establishing effective control of private media and telecoms businesses to allowing people to blow off steam without going too far – we should be more realistic about the true extent of the Internet’s transformational potential.
Indeed, even economic reform is losing steam in China, with no significant changes aimed at economic liberalization introduced recently.
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