However, the startling leaks published by the Guardian demonstrate, more than ever before, how technology has hugely extended the scope of spying in a way that has unprecedented implications for personal privacy, corporate wealth, and the conduct of international relations.
"Because you have this decision that everybody knows was made months ago in a town that notoriously does not keep secrets well with such unprecedented implications for one-sixth of the economy".
I see them here in Manhattan, where one of our biggest investment banks had to be bailed out and the Fed opened its discount window to a host of new institutions with unprecedented implications that we have yet to appreciate.When all is said and done, losses will be in the many hundreds of billions.
A global economy with an abundance of low-cost, highly-educated, service-sector workers is likely to turn out to be a challenge of unprecedented complexity and implications.
"We think this is a window on biology that is really unprecedented in its implications," said Dr. Jo Handelsman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, who coined the term metagenomics to refer to the new field.
The election in November 2007 of a new Australian government led by a Mandarin-speaker (Kevin Rudd) will be seen as recognition of the new international order.But the emergence of China is unprecedented in its implications for the world's economy, environment and security.
The absence of an adaptor hairpin in a tripartite pump would be unprecedented and would have implications for understanding the assembly of MDR efflux pumps [2].
Zahidi, the World Economic Forum's head of Education, Gender, and Work, explores the origins and implications of this unprecedented "migration from home to work" in thirty countries.
Palestinians in the West Bank are celebrating the release of the hundreds of prisoners exchanged for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but the political implications of the unprecedented deal look like bad news for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
In a new paper, the former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member and now president of the Peterson Institute, Adam Posen, and I examined the implications of this unprecedented fall in the participation rate and found that it has major implications for Fed policy.* In the US the decline in the participation rate has been dramatic.
In his paper, Dr Gleick, who is president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security - refers to leaked US diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Damascus to the State Department in Washington DC warning of the implications of the unprecedented drought.
