As they grow they add concentric layers.

If I throw a very concentric circle, or concentric ellipse, it just dutifully makes these evenly spaced lines, which get closer and closer together, which describes how gravity works.

China s Inscrutable Contraction

For a year and a half, Santos s policies have been advancing in concentric circles.

The Second Great Contraction

Fiscal contraction is contractionary, period.

The Great Contraction of 2008 2009

This contraction has become even more severe since then.

Both are designed with a core surrounded by concentric circles, but Jerusalem s core expresses spiritual values, while Beijing s represents political power.

This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.

The ensuing losses will aggravate the financial turmoil and economic contraction.

But Keynesianism involved continued fiscal expansion, with no offsetting monetary contraction.

After many years of contraction, investment in construction also will rise slightly.

But, in a Great Contraction, problem number one is too much debt.

The period of gravitational contraction lasts about 10 to 15 million years.

Then We draw it in towards Ourselves , a contraction by easy stages .

The ultimate goal was to use these concentric rings of glue traps to defend the large, air conditioned tatami room where we all slept together.

Forecasters assumed that monetary expansion would provide an effective antidote to fiscal contraction.

Authors review the previous pathogenic theories, discuss the link between concentric sclerosis and Liesegang's periodic precipitation phenomenon and propose a new mechanism based on self organization.

Following the German economy s sharp contraction in the last quarter of 2012, the question for the country today is whether it can avoid a technical recession (defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction).

From his perspective, the Council appeared to be a political body composed of concentric rings of influence, with the P 5 and P 1 on the inner ring.

The latest estimates for Italy and Spain project a deeper contraction, prolonged into next year.

And emerging markets will suffer once the US contraction and global slowdown undermines commodity prices.

The maximum rate of economic contraction a veritable freefall came in the last quarter of 2008.

In 2004, for example, Chad s 39.4 annual growth rate contrasted sharply with Zimbabwe s 6.8 economic contraction.

A more accurate, if less reassuring, term for the ongoing crisis is the Second Great Contraction.

In contrast, QE3 will be associated with a fiscal contraction, possibly even a large fiscal cliff.

This contraction of the job market has had a greater impact on youth than on adults.

All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity.

Nevertheless, the legacy of the huge contraction in credit is not likely to go away anytime soon.

At the same time, it spares an already weak economy damaging fiscal contraction in the short run.

There is a real possibility that global growth will register its first contraction since World War II.

When viewed with white light, it forms a concentric ring pattern of rainbow colors, because the different wavelengths of light interfere at different thicknesses of the air layer between the surfaces.

Even if a bailout plan were implemented quickly which appears increasingly unlikely there would be some credit contraction.

Default likely would be accompanied by severe economic contraction Argentina s GDP fell 15 after it defaulted in 2002.

Growth in high end services employment is matched by contraction in high employment components of manufacturing supply chains.

Second, in 2001, weak capital spending in the corporate sector (accounting for 10 of GDP) underpinned the contraction.

Okay, so it causes a small involuntary contraction in my hand by putting a magnetic pulse in my brain.

With a return to output growth, the recession defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction is officially over.

But what we have seen since 2007 is an overshooting of the contraction in consumer demand and domestic investment.

A sharp contraction in jobs and labor income has many negative consequences on both the economy and financial markets.

The most common is the theory of explosive thermal contraction of particles under rapid cooling from contact with water.

So it is hard to know exactly what to expect in the current contraction based on the Reinhart Rogoff analysis.

In response, China s export performance swung from 26 annual growth in July 2008 to a 27 contraction by February 2009.

The contraction of property and stock markets will undoubtedly dampen US household borrowing and demand, potentially triggering a downward spiral.