Is India heading for a fall, too?India's IT industry is growing at a vertiginous rate.
On Tuesday, views on YouTube, already climbing steadily, exploded at a vertiginous rate after celebrities began posting messages, including Oprah Winfrey, with her nearly 10 million Twitter followers.
The bar, in short, is being raised at a vertiginous rate, and today's 3-D viewers deride the effects that felt so special in "The Polar Express," all of six years ago.
Congo's capital Kinshasa will have gone from 200,000 to more than 16 million, growing over the next decade at the vertiginous rate of 4% a year (about 40 people an hour).
Iraq's population currently 12.5 million, not counting perhaps 1 million imported workers, mostly Egyptians is growing at the vertiginous rate of about 3.5% a year.
We're hurtling from one discovery to the next at a vertiginous rate.
Successful microfinance banks often charge vertiginous interest rates, because that is what poor people must pay to be commercially viable customers.A good test of whether microfinance customers are truly bankable is whether the microfinance banks are bankable themselves, in the pithy words of Peter Kooi, head of the United Nations capital-development fund's microfinance unit.
One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change.
Aided by state media, Putin has managed to maintain a vertiginous approval rating in spite of economic woes, reaching 87% in August, according to the Levada Centre, an independent pollster based in Moscow.
But think how awful it has been for the poor president, pacing around his Oval Cage as Al Gore frittered away this huge, amazing gift that had been bestowed on him: the best economy in the history of mankind, a burgeoning surplus, a declining crime rate, minuscule unemployment and inflation, vertiginous approval ratings.
