Israel's high-tech boom was taking off, fuelled by grants to scientists, military-research projects, a wave of engineers and scientists immigrating from the collapsed Soviet Union, and the growth of foreign semiconductor factories.
But this ambitious project isn't another Silicon Valley spin-off, fuelled by venture capital and a surfeit of sunshine and flow charts.
He also said that he knew how to find the road out of Magdagachi; but after he had fuelled up he drove off without waiting for us, and when we tried to make our way by the directions the fuel-station man gave us we soon were meandering on roads and non-roads in Magdagachi.
"I do think that people can feel disenfranchised from high-end fashion and thus don't feel any guilt about buying 'fakes'," explains Katherine Ormerod, editorial director at Lyst. "The high street has become increasingly brazen with its rip-offs, fuelled no doubt by the countless loopholes that allow brands peddling near-identical fakes to evade prosecution.
The week started with Liverpool fending off renewed speculation - fuelled by relatives and close associates - linking Suarez with a summer move to either Barcelona or Real Madrid after his stellar performance against England.
"The show will be a warm, cheeky family affair fuelled by a healthy dose of off-the-wall, madcap fun".
Would it be fair to say that the UK Athletics performance director fits the mould of off-field sporting leaders fuelled by the frustration of competitive talent left unfulfilled?
By Elizabeth Kolbert "Reshoring," the return of once off-shored operations, is fuelled by automation: salaries aren't an issue without the salaried.
Across the board, innovations fuelled by cheap processing power are taking off.
Of 24 innings that have gone to 50 overs or thereabouts, only nine have crossed 300, Yorkshire's 345-6 (fuelled by Glenn Maxwell's 111 off 76 balls) topping the list.
It runs off four generators fuelled by biodiesel and, according to Ikeda, "each spotlight is four kilowatts, so over the seven days, its total energy consumption will be equivalent to 10 to 20 households".
