The opposite will likely be true for the coal industry, although to a much lesser extent, since decreasing domestic coal use under Obama has been partially made up by increasing coal exports.
Between 2009 and 2011, 43 states made some effort to change by increasing employee contributions or cutting benefits (see map).
ECONOMIST: Despite many reforms, big problems persist in most states
And he is working with Nissen to see if a medical device made by Lipid Sciences can clean the primates' pipes by increasing good cholesterol.
It is being made less stridently but with increasing force by the United States.
George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, made some progress in his most recent budget by increasing the tax relief available for investors in start-ups.
FirstGroup has made a heroic pledge to keep increasing annual revenue by more than 10%.
ECONOMIST: The battle over Britain��s busiest inter-city train route
As Ultan O Broin, my old friend and all round tech expert, recently put it in the Irish Times, the claims made for the web as a socially transformative technology are belied by an increasing amount of data.
Ethical issues raised by scientific advances are increasing as fast as progress is being made.
Tysabri, the multiple sclerosis drug made by Biogen-Idec and Elan, was pulled from the market for increasing the risk of deadly brain infection.
His people followed the vision closely (as one would expect with the bonuses closely tied to it) and their bills to us increased dramatically as the months went by, as the number of mistakes they made increased in proportion to the increasing bills.
FORBES: Vision Is Not The Roadmap, It's The Reason For Having The Map In The First Place
The task is made more difficult by the Yazoo River, which empties into the Mississippi north of the bridges, increasing the speed of the current.
Meeting that rigorous standard has been made more all-the-more challenging by the concomitant exodus of the skilled workforce and the increasing obsolescence and unsustainability of the industrial complex it mans.
The increasing focus by countries on renewable sources of power in the last few years has made the solar industry highly competitive with companies differentiating themselves largely on module manufacturing costs and module efficiency.
FORBES: Suntech Unseats First Solar For Tops In PV Module Production
By examining historical data for the price of fish as mobile-phone coverage was extended down the coast of Kerala in southern India between 1997 and 2001, for example, Robert Jensen of Harvard University showed that access to mobile phones made markets much more efficient, eliminating wasted catches and thereby bringing down consumer prices by 4% and increasing fishermen's profits by 8%.
Most scientists, at this point, seem to agree that the incidence of powerful storms is increasing, but also that no one incident can be said to be caused by man-made global warming.
FORBES: Will Romney's Convention Punchline Give Climate Activists The Last Laugh?
Biofuels made from algae can be produced in a way that make this energy source cost-competitive with crude oil by increasing the amount of energy algae stores as fat, according to early research from VG Energy, an alternative energy and agricultural biotech company.
FORBES: Biofuel From Algae Could Compete With Oil, Report Says
应用推荐