It's a greater availability of food.
A greater availability of venture capital has also probably helped the city's start-ups.
Many other advances are needed, experts say, including better governance and a greater availability of loans and crop insurance.
Like Mr. Sherry, he said he was looking forward to a greater availability of beef tongue, which until now was mostly shipped to Japan.
Some commercial broadcasters fear that a greater availability of online services would weaken one of their biggest selling points — exclusive rights to sports, movies and other popular programming.
For another, dumping 30m barrels of crude oil on to the market will not necessarily lead to a greater availability of heating oil.
Mergers and acquisitions business has been fairly active this year and is likely to continue, reflecting a greater availability of financing, he said.
Further to this, there needs to be a greater availability of regular community support groups, marketed in a way that highlights the fact that you don't have to be of a certain weight to attend.
The drop in the unemployment rate since its peak last summer doesn't reflect a greater availability of jobs, but rather a decline in the share of the population that is even looking for work.
"Partly that's because of a greater availability of other competitors with more advanced weaponry since the end of the Cold War," he said, "and partly, quite simply, because China doesn't compete very well in terms of quality".
