And we have now entered the realm of trillion-dollar bailouts, vast contagion across financial institutions, rapid deleveraging of banks and an economic crisis that some people are starting to compare to the Great Depression.
In short, while fear of regional contagion rises, Mr Gbagbo's rapid removal looks as awkward as ever.
He then directed And Everything Is Going Fine (2010), a documentary about the life of Spalding Gray, and the big-budget ensemble thriller Contagion (2011), which portrayed the rapid spread of a deadly airborne virus.
There are rare instances where the focus is on the consequences of a pandemic rather than who is to blame – most notably The Andromeda Strain or last year's star-heavy Contagion, which plausibly showed the rapid disintegration of society as a lethal infection spreads round the world.
"Financial contagion can lead to the very rapid global spread of recession," said Chris Varvares, senior managing director for Macroeconomic Advisers, a forecasting company.
Not only will rapid and severe economic decline in Russia likely cause a financial contagion that could damage economies as far afield as Europe and the Middle East, but the crisis could also back Putin into a corner as he attempts to shore up support on other fronts".
In order to analyze the contagion risk associated with nearby presence of one or more Kaohsiung Rapid Transit (KRT) stations, we cluster the Li's (the fourth level administrative subdivision in Taiwan) of Kaohsiung based on their RAMPP value using the K-means algorithm.
The reports concerning rapid spread of AIDS in various populations have increased the level of anxiety over contagion among adolescents.
Or to put it another way, the longer that China has the wrong kind of rapid growth, the greater the risk that an eventual crash will muller China and bring contagion to connected financial institutions and economies.
