Secondly, and just as important, innovation has always been fueled by tinkerers.

And all of this has fueled an increase, very smooth and predictable, of productivity.

How Inequality Fueled the Crisis

It's already fueled conflicts in Chad and Darfur.

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that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain,

It is the fire of Allah, eternally fueled,

But all that belief had fueled me so long.

Their images fueled resistance to the war and to racism.

Now that same idea fueled the commercial food industry as well.

So fueled by that ambition, he returned to the state legislature.

Stars are fueled by how the nuclei in those atoms react together.

NEW DELHI Japan s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty among all of the world s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy starved country, much is at stake.

While oil has made a few presidents and princes staggeringly rich, the rest of the population has received little benefit. Hunger is widespread indeed, poverty and inequality have fueled much of the popular mobilization in the region.

That is no excuse for paranoia and repression, but just because the Party has outlasted predictions of its demise does not mean that it has no Achilles heel. Most notably, the anger over corruption and nepotism that fueled the Tiananmen protests has never gone away.

The trend has been fueled by the country apos s increasingly tight economy, which makes it virtually imperative for a family to have an income to supplement that of the husband.

These are also, these tar fueled protocells, are also able to locate resources in their environment.

In the US, GNP has risen sharply in the past 40 years, but happiness has not. Instead, single minded pursuit of GNP has led to great inequalities of wealth and power, fueled the growth of a vast underclass, trapped millions of children in poverty, and caused serious environmental degradation.

The result has been an unmitigated catastrophe the destruction of Iraq as a functioning society in an ongoing civil war, fueled by outside powers, that has caused economic ruin and collapsing living standards. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died in the violence since 1990.

In Ukraine, for example, the conflict has both exposed and widened the fissure between Russia and the West. Post Soviet Russia s struggle to integrate into the international order, together with its rejection of modernization, has fueled a revisionist nationalism based on spheres of influence.

The inherent energy of this force should not be neglected, as it is fueled by the struggle to survive.

Today s sentiment has been fueled by populist parties positioning themselves as guardians of national identity. Europe, they argue, faces a mass influx that threatens to place even greater strain on its economies, labor markets, and cultures.

DAKAR The slump in prices for Africa s natural resources, which led to chronic deficits in the past, has been reversed. Consumption, fueled by huge Asian demand for African commodities, is on the rise across the continent.

None of this might matter were it not for the fact that extremely low interest rates have fueled increased risk taking by borrowers and yield hungry lenders. The result has been a massive mispricing of financial assets.

Kurds held fast to their own ethnic identity. Eventually, the suppression of the Kurdish language and culture fueled a brutal insurgency, led by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) which has cost the country more than 30,000 lives.

Even if a bailout plan were implemented quickly which appears increasingly unlikely there would be some credit contraction. The US economy has been sustained by a consumption boom fueled by excessive borrowing, and that will be curtailed.

Popular discontent over food prices has fueled political instability in some countries, most notably in Egypt and Tunisia. Even agricultural producers would prefer some price stability over the wild ups and downs of the last five years.

In Europe, the pre crisis boom in real estate investment was fueled by reckless credit flows from Northern to Southern Europe. Credit rationing has followed, as banks reduced their overburdened balance sheets and were discouraged from risk taking.

Furthermore, Japan s habit of distorting facts in its history books for example, denying that its former colonial subjects were forced into sexual slavery has fueled distrust and anger in South Korea and elsewhere in East Asia, including China.

China has also benefited from rapid employment growth, with more than seven million workers having entered the workforce each year since 1990. This, together with the massive reallocation of workers from rural to urban areas, has supported the labor intensive manufacturing industries that have fueled China s economic rise.

Putin s military build up and modernization of the past decade was also fueled by energy exports. But Russia s latest energy windfall has masked Putin s incompetent economic management, with growth and government revenues now entirely reliant on the hydrocarbons sector.

Cheap external finance, plentiful capital inflows, and commodity booms helped hide many such shortcomings and fueled 15 years of emerging market growth.

While Karzai has been fickle, to say the least, about cooperation with the Americans (indeed, he has since backed away from participation in the Doha talks), the rupture of his political alliance with non Pashtun leaders has also fueled ethnic polarization. Some non Pashtun power brokers continue to support Karzai, but many others are now leading the opposition National Front.

Fueled by religious rhetoric and a bloody history, the conflict engenders a degree of passion and irrationality that is difficult to moderate. As has been said Where the fires of faith are burning, the goddess of reason tiptoes silently out of the room.

Elsewhere, populist anti European parties of the right have been gaining ground with campaigns directed against immigrants and minorities, especially Muslims. This has fueled concern that the populist bloc will be the largest in the European Parliament after next year s EU wide election.

People living poorly may feel happier more often than their more fortunate counterparts. It is this kind of contradiction that has fueled research in the social sciences and neurology devoted to answering the age old question What is the secret to happiness?

By breaking Gaza s political isolation, the ceasefire has fueled hope of relief from economic and financial deprivation. Given Hamas s leading role, it will be held accountable not only for the success of Gaza s reconstruction, but also for any further delays in Palestinian reconciliation.

The Middle East has been a hotbed of instability fueled by historical tensions since the fall of the Ottoman Empire almost a century ago. Now it is on fire not least because the West s repeated interventions have been guided by shortsighted tactical concerns.

And yet, while bureaucratization of science has fueled concerns about its attractiveness to talented thinkers, we should not be overly pessimistic. To be sure, many people have lamented the loss of brilliant minds to the financial sector over the past few decades.

On the contrary, the real question is why the increase in stock prices has not outpaced growth in corporate earnings. After all, in the 1990 s, the US stock market surge (as in many countries) was fueled by record high price earnings ratios.

The pharmaceutical industry, fueled by our desire for quick fixes, has effectively deployed its considerable power to promulgate the notion of disorders and illnesses in all domains of our lives. The fundamental purpose of drug companies is to produce profits for shareholders.

In the US and many Latin American countries, slaveholding fueled mass violence as well. The slaves and generations of their descendants were routinely murdered.

In 2008, it was a combination of exploding asset prices and excessive household sector leverage that fueled the global financial crisis. When such a debt fueled bubble bursts, its effects are transmitted directly to the real economy via household sector balance sheets, with the reduction in consumption contributing to a decline in employment and private investment.

Soon after these episodes, the US Department of Defense announced that it would begin relocating American forces to the western Pacific, focusing China s attention further. Likewise, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed mega regional free trade deal from which China has so far been excluded has fueled concern in China regarding US intentions.

But China s balance sheet has served it well, enabling the extraordinarily high rates of investment that have fueled rapid growth. Meanwhile, many advanced economies have suffered considerably from their balance sheet composition, with limited, poorly measured assets and outsize debt and non debt liabilities.