Shopping websites such as Taobao offer consumers the chance to purchase almost anything, have it delivered swiftly and pay only when their order arrives.
Instead the panicky realisation that, collectively, the EU is increasingly dependent on Russian gas is leading to infighting and recriminations among the union's members.The Germans, normally the first to urge a common EU policy on almost anything, have responded to their vulnerability on energy by trying to develop a "special relationship" with Russia.
And almost anything has been: toilet paper, electric plugs and Slinkys, to name a few.
While available income has diminished, the cost of doing almost anything has been increased by war, corruption and mismanagement.
Liquid nitrogen (used to make sherbets and to flash freeze almost anything) had been proposed for use in the kitchen as early as 1907.
As with almost anything having to do with Chinatown, the more you try to understand, the less you realize you know.
YouTube, the website that dominates the market in user-generated, online videos (or in plain language, a place where almost anybody can post a film about almost anything) has been blocked by Thailand's military-backed government.
Not all real-world questions are interesting — I find that almost anything having to do with taxation is better than a sleeping pill — but every couple of years, if not more often, the international economy throws up a question that gives rise to exciting research.
The men are both clients of Larry's, and Larry, who is as a rule somewhat worried, anxious, and useless when it comes to almost anything, has been talking rather wildly about how he's going to be fired and we'll end up on the street.
But in other fields, prediction is notoriously difficult, including almost anything having to do with social or economic outcomes.
Bonus especially tiresome talking point: Almost anything having to do with the Iraq National Guard, the Sunni tribal militias, and/or the Anbar Awakening.
