But with a virtual Washington consensus on cutting back public spending, investors have little expectation of new government money being poured into some dormant economic sector on a scale sufficient to generate widespread speculative excitement.
Fear of extremism is a strong current of pre-election discourse, with stability considered a prerequisite for reviving the dormant service sectors.
Meanwhile, the hemp economy is dormant, keeping agriculture, manufacturing, and retail sectors from capitalizing on the potential of this plant.
"The big society bank will use money from dormant bank accounts to help capitalise the sector and we have worked quickly to open up a £100m short-term fund to help charities and voluntary groups through this transition period".
Dormant intellectual property inside the developed country, private sector partner, when licensed to developing country partner, becomes a new revenue stream.
While the sudden uptick in orders for armored vehicles appears to represent a resurgence of interest in a sector of the defense industry that has long laid dormant, the industry itself doesn't seem to consider it much news at all.
The euro fell to 20-month lows against the dollar, with markets worried that instability in the euro zone's third largest economy could reignite a dormant financial crisis and deal a hammer blow to Italy's fragile banking sector.
One key area for the future must be public sector information – we have a vast resource of data sets which currently lie dormant in Whitehall departments.
They were comfortably dormant.
