They are much less good at capturing the continuing gains that result from a faster accumulation of capital, or a quickened pace of productivity growth.
Cuspate foreland: an accretionary feature consisting of a triangular accumulation of sand projecting seawards from the shoreline.
One holds that it is not such a bad thing that much of humanity is engaged in a feverish accumulation of property or that certain characters have accumulated an awful lot of it.
The dominant theory of speciation is that it results from a slow accumulation of genetic mutations.
All this seemed to me a mere accumulation of happy and irresistible coincidences.
Exploring the remote shoreline I was faced with a staggering accumulation of marine debris, and it broke my heart.
The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Yes, it was as if an entire generation of Americans consented to hopping aboard a giant hamster wheel of accumulation, all striving toward the imaginary objective of acquiring enough stuff and a pot of money big enough to sustain a comfortable level of consumption through to the grave.
The third mistake was that, because the workers were allowed to bypass the time-consuming mixing process in the tower, with its automatic controls for preventing such things happening, they were free to dump their material into a vessel that was not designed to prevent the accumulation of a critical mass sufficient to support a chain reaction.
Lastly, low fertility makes possible a more rapid accumulation of capital per head.
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Those elements that exist in vast numbers of copies in some species may not be the result of gradual accumulation, but of a sudden burst of proliferation that, for some reason, was permitted by natural selection years ago.
What the company needs, says analyst Phil Weiss at Argus Research, is a captain who will lead Chesapeake away from its perennial focus on asset accumulation into a disciplined program of asset harvest.
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The history of the last 30 years is a history of debt accumulation.
The 4-hour chart going back six months shows a rounded, accumulation type of pattern that needs to do additional work to confirm completion.
The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiences and encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures.
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Unfortunately, because they are not repeated (or the learnings are extrapolated off of a single campaign), there is little accumulation of knowledge or confidence in these results.
That does lead the way for a new cycle of long accumulation at some point, but they added, not necessarily right away.
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No economy can sustain such a colossal rate of capital accumulation.
The Casey Research analyst favors buying gold as part of a regular accumulation program, somewhat similar to the cost-averaging approach many take in the stock market.
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This is understandable because managing a small sum of money in the early accumulation years is quite different than managing a large sum in retirement.
My assumption is enormous free cash flow accumulation is reinvested at a high rate of return plus aggressive share buybacks.
The film, like the book, depends for its effectiveness on a straightforward presentation of information and an accumulation of damning detail.
Good for him I say and a pointer to all others that the accumulation of personal vast wealth is not the main thing that humans were born for.
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With average yearly snow accumulation of 33 feet, a vertical drop of 3, 500 feet and 3, 500 acres of skiable terrain ranging over three mountains, Sunshine is one of Canada's most inviting locations.
There was massive inflation in asset prices, especially in commercial and residential property, and a hideous and dangerous explosion of the accumulation of debt: an analysis by McKinsey, which I've mentioned here many times before, shows that the aggregate of household, business, government and bank debt increased from less than 200% of GDP in 1987 to a record 500% of GDP in 2008, and hasn't really fallen since.
This accumulation of bullish bets could create a layer of options-related resistance for V.
The students were interested in building a rover and approached Koenig about whether a rover could aid her studies of snow accumulation on ice sheets.
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The accumulation of affairs has brought out a flurry of personal testimony in France from highly placed women politicians and officials who now feel empowered to speak out on the issue of sexual harassment by men in politics.
The grain of truth here is that, yes, changes in technology and the economy have meant that, say, clever financiers or computer programmers can make billions of dollars almost overnight in a way that would have been inconceivable to the strenuously materials-based wealth accumulation of Andrew Carnegie or Commodore Vanderbilt.
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