Obstacles to accelerated progress

In less than two decades, cosmetic surgery has surged exponentially within China.

Indeed, HIV and AIDS expanded at an accelerating rate and on every continent.

In contrast to the Great Depression, collapsing national output was in recent decades accompanied by accelerating inflation, not deflation.

The number of Bahrainis active online has increased significantly since the start of the country's uprising on February 14, 2011.

Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.

Objects are falling to the floor because the room is aboard a rocket in space, which is accelerating at 9.81 m s2 and is far from any source of gravity.

Most economic data confirm that, after the trauma caused by the global financial crisis, the United States economy is healing, and doing so in an accelerated fashion.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

With inflation both headline and core now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can t afford to slip further behind the curve.

Looking at dinosaur evolution and studying it, digging it up for many years, I end up looking at the mammal radiation, and it seems as though everything is quick time, just like technology, advancing by an order of magnitude.

After about 50 or 60 comas, or earlier if the psychiatrist thought that maximum benefit had been achieved, the dose of insulin was rapidly reduced before treatment was stopped.

Much has changed in the Middle East during the past two years, and not to Turkey s advantage. As a result, Turkey is now seeking to contain a rapidly deteriorating regional security situation.

This year, we reached the same low level without exceptional wind conditions. It is now clear that we are not just seeing a steady decline of sea ice cover, but a rapidly accelerating decline.

Markets have been understandably buoyant in the first quarter of 2013. Most economic data confirm that, after the trauma caused by the global financial crisis, the United States economy is healing, and doing so in an accelerated fashion.

Some similarities exist between the situation then and today before the 1997 crisis, there had been rapid increases in capital flows from developed to developing countries a six fold increase in six years.

Today, illiteracy in Paraguay stands at 6.4 per cent, and my Government's objective is to obtain the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's certification of zero illiteracy in Paraguay by 2008.

Although his party was initially credited for ensuring a decade of robust economic growth, the country has spiralled into insecurity and war following the government's decision to wade into the conflict in neighbouring Syria and escalate a decades old conflict with Kurdish militants in the east of the country.

Some similarities exist between the situation then and today before the 1997 crisis, there had been rapid increases in capital flows from developed to developing countries a six fold increase in six years.