The first is that the solar-as-social-network concept is as real and dependable as, well, the Sun rising in the East.
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For decades, the Washington sun has been rising in the East.
In addition to the Fed stimulus, Sean Lusk, precious metals analyst at Ironbeam, said the rising tensions in the Middle East may keep gold supported in the near term.
Demand is weak as the world economy slows, and the White House could be prompted to release strategic petroleum reserves amid rising tensions in the Middle East.
The Egyptians, wary of a popular backlash against rising Shia influence in the Middle East, were denying Iraqis legal status there.
Then, as now, the Fed was given a pass, successfully blaming the inflation it had created on trouble in the Middle East and the rising price of oil.
Or the 1984 New York Mets, who shot up to 90-72 from 68-94 in 1983, rising to second place from sixth in the NL East standings.
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The volatility is the work of old villains rising oil prices, violence in the Middle East, lower-than-expected corporate profits, uncertainties over the U.S. presidential election, even traditional October jitters.
The Commission is to be commended for its tireless work in exposing the rising threat from the East to American security.
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Regionally, London and the South East of England continued to see rising workloads in the first quarter.
Till now the main factors behind steadily rising oil prices have been growing political tensions in the Middle East--where Turkey is threatening military action against Iraq--general concerns about supply and a weakening dollar.
And rising oil prices resulting from conflict in the Middle East are only exacerbating the situation.
Set in 1997, the film followed rising tensions between East and West and the battle to control a space station capable of manipulating the weather at any place on the planet.
Traders returned to panic mode on Tuesday in response to the rising price of oil and the growing uncertainty in what is now being referred to as MENA (Middle East, North Africa).
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Taken together with the U.S. administration's refusal to come to grips with what truly is the most serious threat to peace in the Middle East - Iran's rising power and growing aggressiveness, reflecting in part its incipient nuclear weapons capabilities - the stage is being inexorably set for the next, and perhaps most devastating, regional conflict.
And political tensions in the Middle East could yet spill over into rising oil prices, delivering a global growth shock.
He also said that rising food prices were an aggravating factor of the unrest in the Middle East, although not its primary cause.
The breakdown showed wide disparities across the UK, with unemployment falling in the North East and North West, but rising in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
He joined the army in 1942, graduated from Sandhurst and served in North Africa and the Far East, eventually rising to the rank of major.
Zoellick also said that rising food inflation is part of the reason for the unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa, although not its primary cause.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
The destructive flooding caused by the storm Sandy, which struck the U.S. East Coast in late October, revived anxieties about rising ocean levels in heavily populated coastal regions.
In Egypt, they are placed on their sides facing Mecca, and even in pre-Islamic times the bodies of Egypt's dead faced east to the rising sun.
The 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn, as well as rising food inflation, have led to the fall of several, once-considered impregnable governments in the Middle East.
GM, like other automakers, is facing substantial headwinds in 2011, not the least of which is rising oil prices as violence continues to spread across the Middle East.
Only if prices are rising because of concerns about a sudden shortfall in supply, such as from fear of a Middle East war, should the Fed be concerned, says Kilian, who admits to the possibility of that.
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