Sentences with phrase «own runaway growth»

That runaway growth has been very good for Green Mountain, but it has also lured in new competitors, from the Tassimo system made by Kraft Foods to the Nestlé Nespresso system to Starbucks» own Verismo.

For some time Twitter's runaway growth — in the first half of 2009, Twitter added more users more quickly than almost any web service in history — masked its execution problems.

You would think that, after all that training, MBA grads would be the perfect candidates to halt the runaway growth of CEO pay.

A year ago in June 2016, I wrote an oped for Tagesspiegel in which I predicted that a new Berlin law, designed to curtail the runaway growth of Airbnb home - renting, would fail to accomplish its goal.

That runaway growth may come at a serious cost, says Tania Simoncelli, a science and technology fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Cancer cells have runaway growth, so the researchers thought the compound might inhibit those cells.

Unless, that is, its runaway growth is somehow being canceled out by new, yet - to - be-discovered massive fundamental particles.

The zones occur where fertilizer and sewage runoff, carried by rivers into the ocean, feeds the runaway growth of algae.

The true challenge posed by the runaway growth in information is to unearth useful bits from this mountain of dross.

That runaway growth has given rise to fears that science is taking over (just watch any Hollywood science - fiction potboiler to see how deep - seated those feelings are).

Then this runaway growth spurt abruptly ended; the universe continued to expand but not nearly at the rate of that fleeting surge.

In this study, the researchers found that macrophages from mice lacking Smurf1 were unable to attach the death - tagging protein ubiquitin to intracellular bacteria, resulting in a failure of the autophagy pathway and runaway growth of the bacteria inside the cells.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

The 1977 work showed a stabilizing effect that appeared to override the impact of a later effect by French physicist Paul - Henri Rebut that attempted to demonstrate runaway growth of the islands.

An evil corporate executive (Malin Akerman) has been experimenting with for - profit pathogens that alter DNA and cause runaway growth and aggression.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.

[4]: 3 Longer - term speculative scenarios over the next two centuries can predict anything between runaway growth to radical decline (36.4 billion or 2.3 billion people in 2300), with the median projection showing a slight decrease followed by a stabilization around 9 billion people.

Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a seeming refusal to plan for the future seem to have

Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a seeming refusal to plan for the future seem to have been the other key factors.

Runaway growth threatens to overtake the valley faster than the invasive «mile - a-minute» weed.

(Bloomberg)-- Office landlords are bracing for a cooling of San Francisco's red - hot market as weaker startup valuations and lower venture - capital funding temper years of runaway growth in the technology - industry hub...

Not exact matches

If passed, it would put a check on runaway subsidies for sprawl and foster more walkable, compact growth — a major win for the taxpayers of New York state, no matter where you live.

«Under Mayor de Blasio's leadership, the City has seen unprecedented growth in services for runaway and homeless youth.

The runaway replication of cancer cells can also traced to genetic causes — mutations that remove the normal controls on cell growth.

They were designed to put a brake on runaway population growth, end poverty and encourage economic development.

In addition to testing a new drug that effectively stops such runaway vessel growth in mice, the team gave the drug a biodegradable coating to keep it in the eye longer.

«Nationally, I am heartened that Americans returned Republicans to the majority in hopes of providing a check on runaway spending in Washington and getting the economy back on track toward growth and job creation.

But with the rush came runaway population growth, severe housing and school shortages, crime and other disruptions in what had been mostly empty agricultural country.

That process is important to cancer researchers, who hope to discover better ways to slow down or stop runaway cell growth, she explains.

LINDAU, Germany — A 93 - year - old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists on June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans» remarkable evolutionary success as a species.

Biologically, hypermethylation often silences genes that keep runaway cell growth in check, and its appearance in the DNA code of breast cancer - related genes shed into the blood may indicate that a patient's cancer growth is increasing and the disease has worsened.

Runaway cell proliferation is driven by accelerators, or oncogenes, that are stuck on go — in collusion with broken brakes, or tumor suppressors, that can't control a tumor's pedal - to - the - metal growth.

Current trends are favorable to e-book growth in India, but there are questions about whether Kindle will be a runaway success.

What he now calls Reasonable Runaways is the same as Cornerstone Growth except that he requires the price - to - sales ratio to be below 1.0 instead of 1.5.

It'll one day be a runaway snowball of income growth, meaning I'll have more income than I know what to do with.

If these leaders continue to adamantly insist that we keep producing endlessly as we are doing now and if we keep getting what we are likely to keep getting by overproducing as we are now, then the unbridled growth of the global economy in all likelihood will soon precipitate a colossal ecological wreckage worldwide unless, of course, the ever expanding global economy proceeds like a runaway train headlong into the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» where the manmade economy crashes and destructs before rampant economic globalization destroys God's Creation.

The cumulative CO2 growth causes global warming that accelerates (they hypothesize) to a condition of «runaway» temperature increases via positive feedbacks, leading to catastrophic «tipping point» climate change.

At low points — ice sheet growth become a runaway feedback leading to glacials.

POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY Protect species and habitats by raising awareness about runaway human population growth and unsustainable consumption.

We may be facing Malthusian limits not runaway economic growth.

Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich still sees runaway population growth as a threat to the planet, but is hopeful that humans can avoid the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

In times of runaway economic growth (think 1998 - 99), you could change careers if you could just spell the needed core skills.