She saw in the 1990 s the beginning of China s economic ascent the early years of spectacular growth.

Many Russian industrialists, such as the founders of Yukos Oil, oversaw their businesses' stunning growth.

Seduced by China s spectacular growth, the region shifted from US to China centric export growth.

And the rising tide of India's spectacular economic growth has lifted over 400 million Indians into a buoyant middle class.

But, with the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, the country embarked upon a period of dizzying growth, averaging nearly 8 per year since then.

The other path traced an alternative course, with China remaining under the grip of its ruling party, but delivering prosperity to its impoverished masses through astounding and sustained growth.

STANFORD As economies around the world return to growth after the deepest recession in a generation, renewed attention is being paid to enormous fiscal deficits and vast expansions of government debt.

As we meet here today, the dramatic increase in oil prices is threatening to roll back growth possibilities in many African nations, worsening their internal and external imbalances.

Example Benjamin Robins's extraordinary application of Newtonian physics to ballistics.

Those investments yielded good returns despite staggering global population growth, from 2.5 billion in 1945 to seven billion today, food availability per person has risen by more than 40 .

As long as the status quo persists, with strong global growth and stunning macroeconomic stability, the US can continue to borrow and run trade deficits without immediate consequence.

The British Council claims that it is showcasing the amazing breadth and diversity of Chinese literature today.

Shockingly, he declared that he did not know who really won.

For example, South Korea s spectacular economic growth in recent decades owes much, according to Friedman, to the country s ethnic homogeneity, which dampens resentment of others relative progress. By contrast, economic development in Sri Lanka, with a standard of living 40 years ago that was similar to that of Korea, was stymied by its Tamil minority s perception that their opportunities and advancement were blocked by the Sinhalese majority.

Never having been confronted with this type of situation before, we wanted to try and understand how we could tap into this incredible resource, how we could really leverage this incredible use of mobile technology and SMS technology.

Observers marvel that China s leaders admit to such a staggering number of protests.

Impressive economic performance enabled the region to invest in human and infrastructure development.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono deserves great credit for this remarkable success.

It was striking to see how often the most prosperous looking representatives came from the world s poorest countries.

Given the conditions, the 60 voter turnout was astonishing.

Incredibly enough, more than 330,000 people like the personality challenged department s Facebook page.

This remarkable economic transformation has been presented as proof of successful pro growth policies pursued in previous decades.

Children with cleft palates will get it, and they document their story. This is wonderful.

It is remarkable that the world has avoided disaster thus far. Why continue to push our luck?

Instead, America s favorable borrowing terms attest to the power of misleading government accounting.

A byproduct of China s spectacular growth has been rising economic tensions with other countries.

Because of the amazing funeral, attended by many revolutionaries who carried my pain with red roses, the authorities began calling me in and interrogating me about my activism on a weekly basis. At that time, the armed revolution was edging closer to Aleppo.

Now, incredible as this sounds, I once met a Papuan man, and I asked him if this could possibly be true.

And amongst our compiled results was the startling revelation that, in fact, we were losing natural capital the benefits that flow from nature to us.

The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks excessive risk taking.

What is striking about No Easy Day and the Vanity Fair article is that the rationale for legal due process is reflected in every other paragraph.

The stunning magnitude of recent declines cannot be dismissed as a one day anomaly caused by a technical trading glitch.

It's a resonant phenomenon for which he actually received a MacArthur Fellowship Award, which is nicknamed the Genius Award, last September, for his discovery.

NEW YORK When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen.

Indeed, the striking feature of the Iranian opposition movement is the lack of effective leadership, despite the astonishing persistence of protests.

Most striking is Turkey s renewal of relations with Russia without damaging its ties to the newly independent post Soviet states.

PRINCETON The astonishing story of Barack Obama s election as president has already done much to restore America s global image.

One might be inclined to interpret this amazing emerging market performance as a consequence of the growth in the amount of real stuff that these economies produced.

The spectacular and historic global economic boom of the past six years is about to hit a wall.

Now, I'm going to move now from this kind of the sublime in the traditional sense of the word, that is to say, awe inspiring, terrifying to the somewhat more mundane.

October 3, 1990, was the effective date for the implementation of a stunning decision taken barely a month earlier.

Created by the presidential administration two months before the December parliamentary elections, Motherland split and practically collapsed two months after its amazing victory.

So it is all the more striking and painful that for so long this specific war crime has received little attention.

Or you may end up in an unseen dimension, perhaps even meet a nice old man who invites you to a fabulous mansion in the jungle.

The first draws on Icelanders reverence for storytelling, from the Sagas of Iceland s early years to the extraordinary number of writers today.