Fossil fuels supply 80% of the world's energy needs and, as the main driver of China's and India's growth, they will remain pre-eminent for decades.
Many economic studies have cited ethanol production as the single most important driver of recent world food price increases.
As the driver of the world's great opening, America has gained hugely in terms of power and prestige, but the extraordinary burst of growth that globalisation has triggered has also lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty over the past few decades and brought lower prices to consumers everywhere.
Red lights, the bane of every unpunctual driver the world over!
Now the intelligent link-up of the driver, the MINI and the outside world has reached a new stage.
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When the action resumed, Isle of Man driver Mark Higgins consolidated his position in the world championship points.
As a result, the Internet has been the greatest driver of economic growth, innovation and creativity the world has ever known.
"The Olympics is seen as the most significant driver of the growth of the game around the world, " said Mike McCarley, Golf Channel's president.
His co-driver, Tracy, is a Guinness Book of World Record holder for completing the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare at the 2012 X Games.
"The Red Bulls now will have a rival here in the market providing them with that derby-like competition that is such a driver of what makes football so successful around the world, " MLS Commissioner Don Garber said.
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg, son of Finland's 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg, can boast that he grew up there.
Other competitors in the race include World Touring Cars driver Yvan Muller, who will be behind the wheel of a buggy, and Nascar star Robby Gordon, in a Hummer.
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"The world has a new economic bloc that ... is the driver of current global growth, and we see that it is underrepresented in the governance structure in the IMF and maybe this is a challenge the IMF itself has to face over the new few years, " Pimentel said.
Regardless of the distribution of those medals, the driver who won most races would be crowned world champion.
Investment activity was the principal driver of fluctuations in the silver price in 2011, said the World Silver Survey.
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The Citroen driver took the lead on stage two of six, with closest world title challenger Marcus Gronholm losing a minute due to brake problems.
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Google's long-term dream is to index all of the world's public information and make it searchable--everything from driver records to radio shows and films--and reap profits from it.
"When you had Prost and Senna fighting it out in the same team, there's no question to the caliber of each driver, very different personalities and great drivers, " 1996 world champion Damon Hill told CNN.
The 2009 world champion came home nearly 14 seconds ahead of defending champion Sebastian Vettel, the Red Bull driver capitalizing on the chaos after starting a lowly 10th on the grid.
Hamilton won the 2008 World Championship with McLaren and has been part of the organization since McLaren signed him to its driver development program in 1998 at the age of 13.
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It left him six shots clear of defending champion and World No.1 Rory McIlroy, who again battled an errant driver and had to rely on his short game to stay in touch.
If Google could give everyone a world-class electronic driver, it would drastically reduce the deaths, injuries and direct costs of accidents.
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"Information is the world's new currency, and high-profile data leaks have become much more of a driver of IT spending, " he says.
Since entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic growth, this should bode well for America, and for world economic growth as well.
Mercedes-Benz shook up the world of Formula One today when it announced that Lewis Hamilton, the most sought after free agent driver in the sport, would join Mercedes next year.
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Bourdais becomes the latest driver to try to convert success in the States to the much more demanding world of F1, a career path that has proved to have mixed results.
She is the leading female driver in motorsport, but has not given any indication of moving over to the world of Formula One.
Their argument is that the main driver of price spikes is something hardly mentioned these days: a miscalculation by the world's most important supplier, Saudi Arabia.
Vettel became the youngest driver to win three world titles as he overhauled Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in the final third of the season.
Sebastian Vettel will start third on the grid after young Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, 26, snatched second place from the reigning world champion in the final seconds of the day's racing.
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