Even hitherto uneconomic hydrocarbons such as tar sands are becoming more attractive.
And with anaemic demand sapping metals prices, mining companies have been hit hard: on January 14th shares of Glencore and Anglo American, FTSE-listed miners, both fell 9%.Ominously, even hitherto strong economies are showing signs of weakness.
Even hitherto anti-American Iraqis, such as Hakim al-Zamili, a parliamentarian from Muqtada al-Sadr's populist Shia movement, want the Americans to increase their air attacks on IS.More significantly, IS has been consolidating its grip over large chunks of northern and eastern Syria, and has been gaining ground against moderate rebel Syrian groups opposed both to Bashar Assad's regime and to IS.
Even Goldman Sachs, hitherto relatively unscathed, has suffered.One reason for the gloom is that banks' residential-mortgage woes are far from over.
In August even Ryanair, hitherto defiantly downmarket, launched a business fare.Competition of all kinds keeps building for Europe's flag-carriers, and not just in short-haul.
Jini out of the bottle Exciting times Look, no wires Objection ReprintsThere are now serious doubts in Japan whether even Fujitsu, hitherto the most profitable of the firms, will be back in profit this year.
By failing to hold on to both seats, Begg reckons even those hitherto supportive of him may soon conclude that he has become a, "no-hoper who risks inflicting lasting damage on the party".
However, models and simulations that provide the ability to conduct multiple, iterative test runs of system performance in operationally relevant scenarios should be able to provide designers with useful information about the probabilities of various adverse consequences, possibly even illuminating hitherto unforeseen, unintended consequences.
He does, though the government's own council of economic experts last month forecast a near-miss, at 3.1%.Still, that small projected overshoot has so far drawn no new cries of alarm even from hitherto eloquent euro-sceptics like Edmund Stoiber and Gerhard Schröder, respectively premiers of Bavaria and Lower Saxony.
The government argues that the bill would allow more intelligence information to be heard in court than hitherto, even though it would be heard in secret.
Two writers this century have already tried to raise a substantial edifice on these flimsy foundations: but the biographies of Wilbur Cross and F Holmes Dudden are likely to be superseded by this new effort which not only draws on more than 40 newly discovered letters, but even includes three hitherto uncollected pictures of Fielding (not very exciting ones, it has to be said).
