"Health care costs are escalating massively above GDP growth," he said.
Three of these – Syria, Libya and Yemen – have started since 2011, and a fourth in Iraq has massively escalated since that time.
Prior work, underway since 2011, had sketched the outline of a potential accord; the Rana Plaza disaster massively escalated the pressure to act on it.
The president also abandoned the cause of the Employee Free Choice Act, and, of course, didn't just fail to achieve "world peace," he massively escalated the Afghanistan war.
If not addressed, recent contagion to countries thought to have relatively solid public finances could massively escalate economic disruption.
"Recent contagion to countries thought to have relatively solid public finances could massively escalate economic disruption if not addressed.
"And yet this is a kind of crime that's growing, it's massively escalating, and of course we all pay for it in the end through higher charges, and businesses and banks lose out too".
And, in the most important part of the whole back and forth -- the debate about whether to defy the will of the American public and massively escalate the war -- Obama is at least, for now, not rushing into anything.
I motioned to the stacks of the petition, which has included personal comments from tens of thousands of signers -- reflecting deep distrust of the present-day Nobel Peace Prize, especially after Obama won it in 2009 while massively escalating the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.
Although in theory future trees will regrow and re-absorb that carbon again, in practice it will take those trees decades to do so -- that's if they will ever be able to do so in the face of escalating climate change and massively increased logging for bioenergy.
