When these distances grow to extremes, they too often result in physical segregation and breed suspicion and distrust.
If the rates of population and productivity growth are relatively low, then accumulated wealth naturally takes on considerable importance, especially if it grows to extreme proportions and becomes socially destabilizing.
A new study by Li Shi, a leading Chinese sociologist, concludes that China's urban-rural gap grows to extreme levels -- higher than any other nation's -- when urban housing, education, welfare and health care benefits are considered along with income.
But these securities are "super-senior" — a great salesman's phrase — and will not suffer unless losses grow to extreme levels that wipe out the value of junior securities backed by the same loans.
From the efforts of parents to stop drug use among students, this campaign has grown to extreme and bizarre proportions, as in the anti-smoking activists' crusade to ban tobacco products in the U.S. Ross' story would have been improbable 10 years ago.
The Manhattan streets unspool outside like a back projection whose unreality is, probably, a deliberate effect; a function of Packer's mind, a faintly delirious symptom of someone whose wealth has grown to such extremes that it cannot be enjoyed or even understood in any conventional way.
In her new book, "How to Raise an Adult," former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims argues that overparenting has grown to worrying extremes over the last decade-plus and that unchecked, it will be the ruin of society as we know it.
Messrs Chandy and Ravallion try to answer that by calculating what different rates of household consumption mean for poverty reduction and how much household income would have to grow to eradicate extreme poverty.Mr Ravallion provides an optimistic projection.
In some cases, the birds' breasts grow to such extreme sizes that they can suffer from conditions like "green muscle disease," in which parts of the breast muscle dies and rots from lack of circulation, even while the chicken continues to live.
Last year, the New York-based experimental artist announced the name change via Instagram, writing that as Bannon, he had "reached his limits," and that his current works "have grown to such an extreme that it must have its own pulse".
