Both countries are engaged in a steep military buildup; Azerbaijan, by far the richer of the two, has increased defense spending twentyfold since 2003, according to the International Crisis Group.
Long-haul communications networks are struggling with steep sales declines after a feverish buildup in capacity.
Military analysts say the buildup, which coincides with a steep decline in spending on schools and health care, is primarily aimed at preventing or, if need be, crushing civil unrest.
By moving the laser spot at increments of 100 nm starting from graphene edge and moving inward as shown in Supporting Information, Figure S1, we were able to capture the shift of the ω2D peak as a result of the uniaxial strain buildup along that region, which is not steep (see Figure 1).
China's current economic model, with its swift buildup of debt to stave off a steeper decline in economic growth rates, "can probably go on for a while, certainly through this year and into 2014, but the potential financial stress in this is clearly going to rise," said George Magnus, a senior economic adviser to UBS.
As Bruce Bartlett, the former Reagan adviser turned fierce critic of the G.O.P., noted yesterday in testimony, Reagan's defense buildup — a classic Keynesian stimulus — and the Federal Reserve's steep interest rate cuts had far more to do with bolstering the post-1981 economy than the original tax cuts ever did.
Now comes what would appear to be another setback: a steep tax, decreed by the new government of President Álvaro Uribe, to pay for a military buildup to combat leftist rebels.
The buildup's very challenging".
The problem is the buildup.
