But if they could tell in advance when it was likely to rain, they could prepare for growth by switching on the necessary biochemical machinery.
"If small-business owners are to shoulder the responsibility for getting our nation back on sound economic footing," Ms. Kerrigan said, "they need something from this package that will encourage them to invest, hire and prepare for growth".
Nicholas Stern (Green routes to growth, October 23) is quite correct: we should be preparing for growth with a focus on low-carbon infrastructure and investment.
The company recently opened a shooting-range sports center, so Mr. Hathaway wanted to be prepared for growth and planned to review the site regularly.
All wireless carriers are preparing for growth in the use of smartphones and mobile computers that will place high data demands on their networks, said James Brehm, a senior mobile consultant with market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
The industry, however, is not prepared for growth, as it currently sits on top of a crumbling infrastructure prone to systematic inefficiencies and rampant fraud.
Although the theme of the event was "Preparing for Growth," I didn't get the sense that marketers had increased their budgets or were preparing for a marketing upswing.
While pre-vitellogenic, the basal oocyte is preparing for growth, JH is synthesised at very low rates, vitellogenin (Vg) synthesis in the fat body is just starting, and the intercellular spaces in the follicle are narrow.
In my view an inverse relationship between angiogenesis and adhesiveness is the most logical scenario, also because of the general cell biology principle that a cell preparing for growth will de-differentiate and suppress other activities, while differentiation to an adhesive phenotype may be more logically associated with slower growth.
You argue that governments must start to prepare for slower growth in order to limit the negative consequences.
The Latinos are coming!" in order to appropriately prepare for the growth of America's Hispanic community, already the largest minority group.
