Someday, Mr. Steiner assures us, we might even enjoy the rarefied life of Bill, a fictitious 27-year-old whom he imagines as a beneficiary of this energy-market upheaval.
Decentralisation has been the main trend in industrial relations since the 1980s reversing the long-term trend of previous decades, which reached its apex during the energy and currency upheavals of the 1970s when many countries tried to respond to wage cost pressures with incomes policies based on central agreements and tripartite social pacts (Addison 1981; Armingeon 1982; Flanagan et al. 1983).
Pricing power and self-sufficiency do not make America immune to upheaval in energy markets.
Mr. Trichet also noted that higher energy prices, along with upheaval in the Middle East, were beginning to affect the cost of manufactured goods.
Murals exploded in Los Angeles in the 1970s as artists took to walls to express concerns about political and social issues, including nuclear energy, student uprisings, political upheaval in Mexico and Chile and the civil rights struggle at home.
The past few years have seen incredible upheavals in energy markets driven by the rise and rise (or more appropriately fall and fall) of solar power.
But America's least-visited state is at the centre of an upheaval in American energy that some believe could lead to independence from foreign imports for North America or even the United States.
Industry-sponsored studies have warned the trend could eventually lead to a radical restructure of energy markets, similar to earlier upheavals with phone-company monopolies.
And so, even as Beijing tries to quell any signs of the Arab world's social unrest striking a political chord with Chinese citizens, the government is also intent on not letting similar upheaval impinge on its energy needs.
Granted, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" has a few bare behinds, a few bare breasts (of vintage Playboy proportions) and two or three moments of pelvic upheaval, conducted with slapstick energy in the discreet middle distance.
