Controlled urban growth is serious business in this city of just over 100,000.
Slow economic growth and serious disruptions in any number of industries, from media to architecture to advertising, along with increasing income inequality, have created ever more competition for interesting, well-paid jobs.
She dutifully touted the company's progress and growth, showing serious company loyalty.
Conversion of natural land resources into croplands, which is triggered by the rapid population growth, causes serious soil degradation.
Home services matchmaking companies such as Thumbtack and Homejoy have been boasting strong growth and serious investor funding in recent months.
But in a country that still relies on a handful of businesses for half its economic growth, a serious economic dip is likely to entrench the status quo, not change it.
This talk of population growth is serious business in Russia here, declining birth rates are spoken of in tones reserved for national crisis, and President Vladimir Putin once said the country needed to "cleanse" its gays in order to get birth numbers up.
However, both the existence of antibodies in humans against Tembusu virus [22] [26] and a new closely-related virus (Sitiawan virus [27]) being correlated to chick encephalitis and retarded growth, raise serious concerns about BYDV as an emerging pathogen.
This loss and degradation are likely to increase in the future, as a result of climate-change-induced drought and human population growth, with serious consequences for both people and ecosystems [1].
Zinc is essential for life with zinc deficiency causing stunted growth and serious metabolic disorders [ 2].
