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Migration across borders is an essential lubricant to economic growth and one group of migrants is particularly important: entrepreneurs.
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Communications technologies of all kinds function as an economic lubricant, reducing friction in the economy and thus accelerating economic growth.
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Money supply, a key lubricant of the economy and markets, also continued to increase, and this has historically driven Chinese equities.
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Using a commercially-available lubricant to unstick the switches could actually cause the switch assembly to melt, cause smoke or even a fire, Toyota says.
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But I had suspected that the contraceptive and lubricant industry had tested the concentrations of nonoxynol-9 they used to be selective cytotoxins to spermatocytes relative to vaginal epithelium.
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Lead scientist Professor Nicholas Spencer suspected that this property could neutralise the effectiveness of the synovial fluid as a lubricant - increasing friction and wear in the hip implant.
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Applied NanoMaterials, a New York-based firm that is commercialising some of his work, has launched a lubricant called NanoLub, which is made of nested spheres of tungsten and sulphur atoms.
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This is why some economists argue that a little bit of inflation, say 3%, is a useful lubricant for relative wage adjustment, because it makes it easier to disguise real wage cuts.
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Humor works as lubricant in human life and put a straight jacket against conflicts with self and outside guiding towards development of congenial working environment where there will minimal barriers in communication either horizontal diagonal or vertical.
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Grating turns the yam to a pulp of unbelievable stickiness. (Wikipedia claims that it was used as a sexual lubricant in the Edo period a fact too good to check.) The soba end up bound so firmly together that pulling a few strands with chopsticks lifts the whole mass off the plate.
NEWYORKER: Ootoya