The Super Bowl kicks in another additional surge; we doubled our traffic the day after the Super Bowl last year".
While the five additional "surge" brigades sent last year were not as important as the changes in strategy and tactics, they were not irrelevant either.
The additional "surge" of 33,000 American troops in 2009 to drive the Taliban from their southern stronghold to the negotiating table weakened the extremists.
General McChrystal acknowledges that he had concerns that Mr. Obama's decision to announce a date for beginning the withdrawal of the additional "surge" forces might embolden the Taliban.
The additional surge brigades, a new counterinsurgency strategy, paying erstwhile enemies to stop fighting us and take up arms against al-Qaida, and even the ethnic cleansing that had already occurred, were all factors in the undeniable reduction in violence.
Freesat has claimed it is winning over BSkyB customers – with almost 400,000 defecting to date – and Ofcom's pay-TV review is expected to provide an additional surge in new signings for the fledgling digital satellite TV service.
Over 12 months, the additional surge, if it continues, will total $106 billion, or the equivalent of about one full percentage point in economic growth, even before counting spillover effects.
A survey of food pantries and soup kitchens released this week by the coalition showed a rapid rise in the demand for food assistance in the first several months of this year, and then a dramatic additional surge in demand following the Sept. 11 attack.
President Obama has pledged that a process of drawing down the additional "surge" forces he sent to Afghanistan will begin next month, and Mr. Gates said he had "assured my fellow ministers that there will be no rush to the exits on our part — and we expect the same from our allies".
To forestall any additional surge in Treasury yields, Mr Geithner should elaborate on how the Obama administration intends to cut spending and raise tax revenue in the medium term.It will take political courage for the Chinese to eschew a weak currency and for an American treasury secretary to unveil fiscal details in Beijing.
