Some of this was superficial, but there was at bottom, just the same, an immense and growing problem: race.
Beijing's fast-rising involvement with Africa grows out of China's immense and growing need for natural resources, in particular for imported oil, of which 25percentt now comes from Africa.
Housed for two decades in Boston, the immense and growing collection of hardware, tech trinkets and ephemera was moved in 1996 to Silicon Valley, where it occupied various makeshift locations and served as a go-to place for technology insiders to reminisce about the heady, built-in-the-garage computer era.
But his personal qualities, reputation and experience won't solve our severe economic problems if President Bush's tax cuts for the rich, and immense and growing national debt -- as a result of our unconscionable deficit spending and the ballooning costs of the Iraq invasion -- are all off the table.
As it pushes forward with plans to become a public company, the online music streaming service must prove it can prosper even while saddled by immense and growing copyright fees, and while expanding beyond laptops and phones into cars and living rooms and keeping its users from defecting to a growing field of competitors.
"The needs are immense and growing, not just in Jordan but in Syria and neighbouring countries," said David Bull, Executive Director of the UK National Committee.
The effects of age-related frailty, disability, and disease combine to present an immense and growing cost to society in terms of health and social service expenditure, impaired quality of life, and physical and emotional suffering.
Executive Director Carol Bellamy told delegates that the devastation caused by the disaster, following on the heels of the powerful hurricanes that hit the Caribbean last year, the massacre of school children in Beslan, Russia and the crisis in Darfur emphasized the "immense and growing burden" that humanitarian crises are placing on relief organisations.
