Over the past decade, there has been a ferocious rise in the freelance economy in the United States.
Look for a ferocious rise after June 30, when the Fed's QE2 program comes to an end.
Set on the eve of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, it pitted the rising ferocious class against the old liberal intelligentsia in the shape of two sons and their parents.
After 13 years of war, Nato formally ended its combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving the Afghan army and police in charge of security in a country plagued by continued fighting, a ferocious insurgency and a rising tide of both military and civilian casualties.
That being the case, it was a role he was prepared to play, to the maximum, but as if with anger and a feeling of futility, both erupting at one point in a rising passage of ferocious sharp attacks.
For them, New York is not an island sinking, but one that is rising on a fresh, ferocious wave.
A larger cultural shift is on the way, with new food waste reduction projects springing up across the world at a ferocious pace, and the issue rapidly rising up the public and political agenda.
Almost 2bn cups of coffee perk up its drinkers every day, but a perfect storm of rising heat, extreme weather and ferocious pests mean the highland bean is running out of cool mountainsides on which it flourishes.
On a cloth rising from the floor came a ferocious bear, but only his teeth and claws: a compact image of terror.
All the other downers pressure on prices, indictments for alleged misdeeds of the past, writeoffs, ferocious assaults by class-action lawyers, corporate governance scandals, uncertain monetary policy, rising state taxes are already factored into today's crummy prices.
