Russia has 180 days to pay the $50bn bill, plus $65m in legal fees and arbitration costs, before interest starts accumulating.
Even if Santorum, Gingrich, Huntsman and Rick Perry quit by the end of the month, Paul intends going on and on, accumulating enough delegates to take to the party convention in August and the national platform that will provide him with.
A gracefully mounted but safe-playing account of Dylan Thomas's 1950 tour of American academia, it nurtures personable performances from Celyn Jones (as Dylan) and Elijah Wood (as his stuffy Ivy League minder) without accumulating much friction between them.
But for me, the two-minute rule has been a lifesaver: it's genuinely astonishing how a to-do list item can linger on the mind for hours, even weeks or months, gradually accumulating a crust of anxiety or irritation, when it could be done – dispatched! gone forever!
Among its many other cultural and economic assets, Google is accumulating a rather comprehensive record of what is troubling us, from asking the search engine to diagnose our disease symptoms to whether we will ever find true love.
If you take the Marxist line that capitalism requires the nuclear family, because the logic of accumulating private property only really works if wealth is hereditary, then it's interesting that we're living in a time when the family is diversifying so rapidly.
"The legacy of Jewish persecution distrust of finance has hindered generations of Germans from accumulating financial wealth," the authors argue.
But evidence is accumulating that the biggest extinction of all, 252.3m years back, at the end of the Permian period, was indeed also triggered by an impact.
Whereas the Puritans dreamed of accumulating modest fortunes "a little at a time, year by year", through "sobriety, thrift and steady toil", the '49ers dreamed of "instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck".
Money talks A transatlantic tipping-point ReprintsMany cities around the country find themselves in a similar position: they are accumulating data faster than they know what to do with.
China also bears a significant financial cost in accumulating huge dollar reserves.
