When investors experience a heighten degree of fear or bearishness, it is common to see the VIX spike, because put-option buying increases as investors seek portfolio insurance.
Humankind fights back with equally giant – 2,000-feet-tall – fighting robots controlled from within by two-person teams functioning through heightened degrees of empathy.
What we do know (yes we do) is that investors don't like heightened degrees of ignorance about the economic outlook.
Table 3 shows a considerable amount of misfit among participants, with four participants (T7, T14, T13 and T5) showing heightened degrees of misfit or noisiness (North 2000) - suggesting that these participants' ratings were somewhat unpredictable and inconsistent.
In fact, even the prospect of a retaliatory terrorist strike linked to hostilities in Iraq has not appreciably heightened the degree of corporate angst.
Adding more contemporary factors like video game play and DVR playback into what was already a mix of Friday-night diversions has only heightened the degree of difficulty.
Compared with decentralizing to the provincial level, decentralizing to the prefectural level not only reduces resistance costs, but it also strengthens the vertical constraints mechanism and therefore heightens the degree of property rights protection for private businesses.
Yet questions arise of what this level consists of; how "heightened" it is; when it is needed and/or feasible, and to what degrees; and in what ways knowledge of the PI does or should influence reviews.
The increase of water concentration in methanol/water extractant mixture heightens the transformation degree of the glycoside forms to the corresponding aglycones increasing their concentration.
Making matters worse, college officials say, the more tuition rises to keep public campuses afloat during troubled economic times, the more students will end up working to pay it, only heightening the obstacles to a degree.
