That process now looks as though it has reversed, releasing the heat and causing a sharp temperature rise.
In San Francisco, Google's shuttle-bus service, which takes employees to their Silicon Valley HQ, has been the target of guerrilla action, a backlash against the city's colonisation by tech employees that, protesters claim, is inflating rents and house prices and causing a sharp spike in evictions.
That task has become all the more pressing after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, which has all but halted Japan's nuclear energy program and caused a sharp increase in the country's fossil fuel imports.
That Lehman was not deemed important enough to save signaled to investors that there was risk where they thought there was none and caused a sharp tightening of credit for many borrowers, despite efforts by central banks to push interest rates down.
The 1992-1997 civil war severely damaged an already weak economic infrastructure and caused a sharp decline in industrial and agricultural production.
The talks with SoftBank come as DreamWorks Animation has been attempting to diversify its operations after a string of box-office misfires over the last two years that rattled investors and caused a sharp decline in the company's share price.
Real estate prices weakened slightly, but the measures also resulted in a steep deceleration in the construction industry last spring and summer, causing a sharp slowdown in economic growth across China.
TEMPORARY STIMULUS NEEDED -- A stimulus package is desirable because economic growth had ground to a halt even before the attacks of Sept. 11 and our military response raised the possibility that consumers and investors will panic, causing a sharp and sudden contraction in economic activity.
Severus' social policy favoured both the provincial recruitment of senators (Easterners, Africans, and even Egyptians), causing a sharp decrease in the percentage of Italian senators, and the elevation of the equestrian order, which began to fill the prince's council with its jurists.
However, on that day, Taipei City government launched the multi-channel risk communication program, greatly reducing the incidence rate and, in effect, causing a sharp weekend drop in new cases.
The danger is that investors (including those Japanese who have pushed money overseas) will tire of losing money and cut their bets, causing a sharp jump in the yen.
