"There is quite a substantial deconcentration going on," he says.
May's theory of national identity is occasionally given credence: witness the joy of Tajik band Samo as they play traditional music to a whooping crowd, unperturbed by substantial technical issues going on around them.
A spokeswoman for Southwest Airlines, Linda Rutherford, said the discount-fare carrier had looked at MidAmerica, "but we are committed to Lambert, and we have a fairly substantial expansion program going on right now.
Albeit much, much less substantial than what is going on in Iran.
"There is a lot of activity going on right now, substantial discussions with the Palestinians about steps they need to take, discussion with the Israelis, tough talk from the Americans with the Israelis," another Western diplomat said.
"What China has going on now is real, it's substantial," Barbara Finamore, the director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's China Clean Energy Program, said in an interview on Thursday.
A recent study documented substantial "inattentional blindness": Subjects who had been instructed to concentrate on a task failed even to notice dramatic events going on around them.
"You come to the Grill Room because something substantial's going on" — even if you can't, or won't, talk about it.
There is substantial research going on into what we should be recommending," said Dr Erica Mayer, an ASCO expert in breast cancer, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and director of clinical research at the Dana-Farber Cancer InstheUSe in the US.
We believe that there's a really substantial transition going on that we're in the middle of, where the majority of companies are not going to have their own datacenters, and when they do -- will have much smaller footprints than they have today," says Jassy.
