The Swiss engineering firm ABB, whose troubles with pension overpayments fostered interest in corporate accountability, said it had dismissed a group of managers in its London operation for having tried unsuccessfully to conceal losses in 1999 and 2000.
Demand is strong in Europe, where high prices for heating oil and clean-energy requirements have fostered interest in alternatives, but analysts say that over the long term, markets in Asia and North America could grow rapidly, too.
In 1788, Redouté became Louis XVI's painter in his library at Jardin du Roi, artist to the Office of Queen Marie Antoinette, and a founding member of Société Linneenne de Paris, which established a standard system of classification and fostered interest in natural history.
They have actually put European rugby on terrestrial television - two games a weekend - and that fostered an interest in the domestic game, which then drove the subscriptions.
High-profile events such as the gradual demise of the Molly Maguires, the Haymarket Massacre in 1886 and the Pullman Strike in 1894 fostered Haywood's interest in the labor movement.
Critics noted that the refugees had become a special interest group that fostered resentment.
Foster carers have also said it has helped their own children understand their fostered children better.
Williams particularly fostered research into the history of medicine, a subject in which he shared Henry Wellcome's strong and well-informed interest, and the field of tropical medicine.
Venezuela's long history of negative real interest rates, subsidised lending to state companies favoured by the government, and severe restrictions on foreign banks all fostered inefficiency.
His own interest in the arts, he said, was bred into him as a child growing up in a black neighborhood in Chicago near a university campus that fostered rich offerings of music, theater and poetry.
But modern trends are fostered, too.
