The word "spurt" is a correct, commonly used word in English.
It is commonly used to describe a sudden, brief spurt of energy, activity, emotion, or progress. For example: She experienced a brief spurt of enthusiasm when she heard the news.
Afterwards, Tom would remember the dog ignoring him, and the spurt of impatience he had felt.
This is because it is common for clusters to experience a rapid growth spurt, followed by steep decline, meaning that any initial economic benefits may be short-lived.
For Total, the brief spurt of production at Kashagan was a highlight of 2013 and increasing production has been explicitly tied to the chief executive's pay.
But along the way he fell out of love with the game after contracting Osgood-Schlatter disease – a problem that affects the knees – during a growth spurt.
The meat, meanwhile, will be so wet "juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the handle of the fork plunged into it", and its taste will be "crammed with mocking flavour".
Global gambling firms' share prices have fallen sharply this year because of fears over Vegas and signs that revenue growth in Macau, Asia's booming gambling capital, will slow (see chart).All this coincides with the industry's biggest-ever building spurt, raising the spectre of oversupply.
If VW already has one brand too many, SEAT is it.An earlier growth spurt, during Mr Piëch's time as chief executive, led to VW's brands churning out lots of competing models while overlooking popular new trends, such as the "compact multipurpose vehicle" pioneered by Renault with its Scenic.
Despite India's growth spurt in recent years, its sustainable pace is still much lower than China's, which puts its economy more at risk of overheating and rising inflation.China's double-digit growth may look like a danger sign but there are few of the usual troubles.
After this rapid growth spurt the web is now, like Sir Tim's children, in its teenage years.
But if the rally in stocks continues, a spurt of initial public offerings (IPOs) should follow.New issues tend to occur in three stages.
Mr Ruggie hopes for greater clarity over the duties of firms and governments, and a better balance between protecting the legitimate interests of investors with the needs of host states to discharge their human-rights obligations.The adoption of a UN standard is likely to trigger a new spurt of activity in defining best practice, much of it involving collaboration between businesses and NGOs.
