When its central bank eases monetary policy, as it did this month, it creates almost as big a stir as a decision by America's Federal Reserve.
The economic consultancy Volterra forecasts that the night tube will generate more than enough in extra fares to cover the costs of running it, create almost 2,000 extra permanent jobs and deliver £3.90 of wider economic benefit for every pound invested.
The Atlantic Foundation, one of the world's largest and most secretive philanthropic endowments, is changing its top management for the first time since it was created almost two decades ago, the foundation's president acknowledged yesterday.
Inditex said it had created almost 10,000 jobs over the first half the year, with more than 2,400 of them in Spain.
The pursuit of science for its own sake led to discoveries such as penicillin and superconductivity, and it often created, almost by accident, remarkable benefits for society.
If DVD makers can sort out their internecine bloodletting over standards and if DVD players become as common as VRCs in Yuppie living rooms over the next few years, and if VM Labs can convince enough third parties to write games for its systems, it will have created, almost without effort, the most successful videogame console company in history.
Indeed, the concept of "contestability" (market competition) was inserted into the DNA of the National Offender Management Service when it was being created almost a decade ago.
A Congressional Research Service analysis estimated that the rule would have created almost as many jobs as it would have cost.
Don't expect real jobs from that -- this money mainly went to bolster very well paid researchers at elite universities and research hospitals -- and, ultimately it will create almost no health since it is hardly possible to complete important research of any kind in the compressed schedule attached to stimulus money.
They created almost no wake when they passed.
