The dynamic nature of a scenario refers to whether a scenario is essentially based on a gradual extrapolation of trends, or whether it encompasses events, discontinuities, or even surprises which change gradual developments abruptly (Van Notten, 2005).
That development was abruptly cancelled late last year by the developer, even though the firm claimed to have sold hundreds of the 800 apartments off-plan.The second sin that some developers committed was to mark up the prices of apartments and then secretly discount them, allowing investors to give banks the impression that they had put up deposits.
Despite its smoothly proceeding development, LucasArts abruptly canceled the project in March 2004.
My biggest worry is that these positive developments could abruptly come to an end, and that we might fall back on the path to despotism.
And what keeps striking me is that the explicit goal of most of the policy options being pushed is an all-out effort to avoid a "credit event", ie any development that might abruptly shift the markets' assessments of the creditworthiness of Greek and related European bonds.
This growth stopped abruptly in the early 1970s.
Disney also bet heavily on console-based games — operating six development studios — but consumers abruptly moved to mobile gaming.
Prices and mortgage rates are escalating methodically, not abruptly, a development that is proving inspirational rather than inhibitive to buyers who have been on the fence.
Earlier this year Intel abruptly ceased development (see: "Core Confusion") on what was to be the last generation of its single-core microprocessors and said that going forward all new PC microprocessors would have two cores or more.
When we discovered Flamel Technologies in August 2002, it was in Wall Street's litter basket, having been dumped there in early 2002 after partner Novo Nordisk abruptly halted development on the company's injectable technology for long-acting insulin.
