As well as propelling public debt from 25% of GDP to 123%, it has made Ireland's banking industry one of the most concentrated in the world.
Also propelling public pension funds to court is a sense that the Securities and Exchange Commission is far too short of staff members to act quickly enough, given the barrage of complex cases.
The proposed changes would hand control of most of the £100 billion, or nearly $163 billion, annual health budget to the service's 42,000 general practitioners and, critics argue, they would propel the public health system into the arms of private service providers who would cherry-pick the most lucrative parts, leaving other parts to crumble.
Echoing growing calls from opposition politicians, it concludes that the pensions deficit "when combined with changes to inflation and interest rates" could propel total public-sector pensions liability to unsustainable levels.
These dominant figures, methodologically at war, were propelled into public debate by the interlocked world of publishers based in Paris's intellectual triangle between the boulevards Saint Germain and Raspail and the rue du Bac, a press which took up their ideas and an expanding university system that up till then had not taken sociology seriously.
The boom was further propelled by public knowledge of the multimillion-dollar fees paid to writers like Joe Eszterhas and Shane Black.
And as a result, for 11 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the security colossus constructed to protect the nation from Al Qaeda and its ilk has continued to grow, propelled by public anxiety, stunning advances in surveillance technology and lavish spending — about $690 billion over a decade, by one estimate, not including the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Propelled by public outrage at what is widely perceived as endemic cronyism in Icelandic politics and the seeming impunity of the country's wealthy few, support for the party – which hangs a skull-and-crossbones flag in its parliamentary office – has rocketed.
"This fight's been a long time in the making and a victory will really propel me into the public consciousness," says Murray.
But now, as he prepares for his first term in the House, he realizes that his political career would not have happened without the accident and the overwhelming community response that seemed to propel him into a public role.
