But Ferrara departs from the specifics to ferocious effect.
Michigan is a case study of how job losses and the housing slump combine with ferocious effect.
As the music gains in intensity, there are captivating antiphonal effects, with ferocious outbursts passed back and forth among groupings of trombones and the organ erupting in a fit of cascading chords, holding its own against the din of brass.
Wherever it is possible to tie these advantages together, there will likely be ferocious competition, as with network effects, for startups to get an initial head start in competing for scale to achieve escape velocity and become runaway leaders given the huge premium on winning.
There have been other military sieges in recent times but none so ferocious, so total in its effect.
Exhaust from cars and trucks, in combination with wind-borne dust from the Arabian Desert and humid air from the Persian Gulf, formed a thick, phlegm-colored haze that made breathing unpleasant — an effect exacerbated by the ferocious heat.
Tally up all the bereft fathers video-chatting with college-age daughters, bored teenagers making videos for other bored teenagers and geeks mashing up existing content to hilarious effect, and there is ferocious, idiosyncratic competition for consumers' attention.
It's still a riotous, ferocious little motor, and whatever the turbochargers' effect on the soundtrack, it's more than compensated by their influence on the power output.
But in the taxi, the window rolled down sipping in the unseasonable springtime air, I began to revive under the tonic effect of the New York skyline, ferocious and youthful compared to Paris, where I've been for the last two months.
The effects on Iberia's staff are ferocious: 23 per cent of jobs will go, and the remaining 15,500 staff will be expected to deliver improved productivity and accept "the introduction of permanent salary adjustments".
