In reality, the supposed economic miracle was merely an ancillary effect of being in the same world where the real miracle was occurring, which was the enormous technological and productive revolutions occurring in the U.S. and Japan.
He predicted that the Japanese productivity miracle would transform the world economy.
Hoover had performed a similar miracle for Belgium during World War I, when German occupiers were ready to let millions starve to force the British to abandon their wartime blockade.
It is considered to have achieved an economic miracle, becoming one of the world's top producers of computer technology.
Now recording and touring with The Miracle Three, Wynn visits the World Cafe Live stage in Philadelphia, Pa. for a midday concert.
Visual feats aside, Fuller, 47, has managed to pull off something of an economic miracle -- at least in the world of hydraulics: He claims his technology allows for energy savings of 80% or more and brings down project costs by 50%.
Just missing the cut: the 1969 Orioles, whose expansion-aided 109 wins preceded a famous World Series loss to the "Miracle Mets, " and the 1958 Milwaukee Braves, who took the National League pennant by eight games before blowing a three-games-to-one series lead to the Yankees.
The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
To be sure, Ivory Coast was declared an "economic miracle" in the late 1980s and in 1994, the World Bank declared Ghana to be an economic success story.
So is the world's largest democracy primed to overtake the world's biggest single party state as the next economic miracle?
Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard did so after World War II, triggering the so-called German Economic Miracle, which didn't sputter out until the mid-1970s.
Alter and Fishman have misstated the impact that analysts think U.S. crude oil supplies will have on world prices in order to scare readers into thinking that the American oil miracle will sow the seeds of social unrest in petrostates.
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Nearly half expected India to be the world's biggest economic power in 20 years' time, which would be a real miracle.
Yet the overwhelming reason for China's miracle is that the state released its stifling grip and opened the country to private enterprise and to the world.
In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
They should do but where their senses are completely lacking when one considers as an American miracle that of Apple and how this great company came from near destruction to become the largest company in the world (only recently losing that crown to Exxon again).
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