Ever since the discovery of oil near Kirkuk in 1927, Iraq has struggled to maximize the commodity's potential for wealth.
Cloud computing makes clusters a commodity, creating the potential for a wide range of programmers to develop new scalable services.
He, like my mother, was born in the Gold Coast – a colony named, like many, after its potential for commodity exploitation, an arrangement designed by people who thought Africans "far nearer to the animal world than… that of the European".
In South Korea Mr Hu will attend a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, including President Bush, who will then proceed to Beijing for what will be his first visit to China since Mr Hu assumed office in March 2003.Since becoming president then, Mr Hu has travelled far and wide, often in the pursuit of strategic partnerships with commodity-rich potential suppliers for China's industrial machine.
However, other analysts have made the case that, due to restrictions on China's capital account and the daily fixed level of the RMB, the potential for extensive commodities trading in RMB is less attractive than other options available to foreign investors.
The bundling of interventions and commodities together also has much potential for cost-effective delivery and maximizing gains from points of contact.
To this end, commodity mobile devices have significant potential for use as prototyping and testing platforms due to their low cost, widespread availability, and integration of advanced communications, sensing, and processing features.
Because of that shift in the forward futures curve, there is upside potential for oil and commodities investors even if price gains in the spot market are modest.
Commodity stocks have been in the doldrums for some time, but attractive valuations and the potential for inflation could make commodity related names attractive for investors looking to diversify their portfolios.
Mr. Geithner said the United States would support measures to limit the potential for the manipulation of commodity prices through greater transparency and oversight of the commodity and derivative markets, which some critics worry are being used by speculators to drive up commodity prices.
