Energy was seen as rather dull, as fears over our ability to "keep the lights on" had long ago receded.
A grand, sweeping narrative of immense scope and power, the book describes a world that long ago receded from memory: the West after World War I, a time of economic fragility, of bubbles followed by busts and of a cascading series of events that led to the Great Depression.
Corruption, the central theme a few years ago, has receded into the background.
Both parties agree on one thing, though: the BNP surge in Burnley, which caused alarm five years ago, has receded.
As the last Ice Age came to a close some 12,000 years ago, glacial cover receded to the poles.
Page B3 INDUSTRY STALLS IN THAILAND The floodwaters receded weeks ago from Khlong Luang, a sprawling industrial zone, but only 15 percent of the 227 factories have restarted production.
KHLONG LUANG, Thailand — The floodwaters receded weeks ago from this sprawling industrial zone, but the streets are littered with detritus, the phones do not work and rusted machinery has been dumped outside warehouses that once buzzed with efficiency.
"The Dr. Martens brown-shoe growth trend we saw that started about four years ago leveled off about two years ago, and has perhaps receded a bit," said Greg Hartley, executive director of the Athletic Footwear Association.
That crazy drunken night I maneuvered you out into a field outside of Coachella — I'd never seen a sky so full of stars, as if the dirt of our lives still were sprinkled with glistening white shells from the ancient seabed beneath us that receded long ago.
Tajikistan, torn by civil war for much of the 1990s, has now settled down, and the wave of Islamic terrorism that hit the region a few years ago seems to have receded for the moment.Since independence, the individual Central Asian states have made different political and economic choices which have meant that the contrasts between them are now quite striking.
by Sharon Levy That crazy drunken night I maneuvered you out into a field outside of Coachella — I'd never seen a sky so full of stars, as if the dirt of our lives still were sprinkled with glistening white shells from the ancient seabed beneath us that receded long ago.
