That spawns the awful tyranny of the group gift: the pooling of resources to buy something they still don't want, but which is now too expensive to take to Age Concern.
That may be understandable: by definition, waste is something its owner no longer wants or takes much interest in.Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.
Some observers have attributed this to Shell's odd ownership structure, and the culture it spawns.
Every such collision spawns more junk a phenomenon known as the Kessler syndrome, named after Donald Kessler, an American physicist who postulated it in the 1970s.
If the fund is a success and spawns copycats, even insurance-policy buyers could reap rewards; the greater appetite may lower yields, making them cheaper than reinsurance a saving that could be passed onto consumers.Until recently, the market for cat bonds was minuscule.
One reason southern China often spawns them (SARS was not unique; a lot of influenza begins there, too) is that the region has a plethora of small farms, in which many species of animal live in close quarters with each other and with human beings.
But if Yu'E Bao spawns trouble, the applause will not last.
And if the euro-zone crisis spawns a mutualised Eurobond, investment bankers will be in at the birth.Even bad ideas are not a problem when they first arise.
He describes, entertainingly, the way this spawns, in turn, yet further obsession, as couples peruse sex manuals that categorise and prescribe precise methods for love-making in a vain attempt to stop their ardour fading.
More mortgage losses will result as joblessness spawns foreclosures, along with higher defaults on everything from credit cards to corporate loans.There are some bright spots.
It sounds awfully like water-marketing, a concept that spawns nightmares in Utah and Wyoming.
