The prices of refined products like diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, might increase much more sharply than crude-oil futures because of the refining belt that runs along the Gulf.

FORBES: Market Scan

The idea is to situate the aggregates' operations along a growth belt.

FORBES: Basics R Us

To fill them, spring-loaded rods push high-volume drugs like ibuprofen from their tubes into a small nylon nest moving along the conveyor belt at the bottom of the machine.

FORBES: Drug Lord

The aim, he says, is to bring stability to the poor, fragile Muslim countries along the Saharan belt that might otherwise collapse and create havens for terrorists of the sort Afghanistan became under the Taliban.

ECONOMIST: Africa and the “war on terror”

For the next 7 minutes, video images of Ralph Lauren clad models strutted along the balconies, a giant green belt wrapped itself around the building and polo horses galloped across the facade.

FORBES: Connect

Higher taxes at the top, along with the waning of fiscal stimulus and belt-tightening by the states, will make a weak growth rate weaker still.

ECONOMIST: America's economy