Word: driven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
China has built more capacity than they have electricity to support or alumina to feed operations. This has driven up the price of alumina because they're a big importer of alumina. Over the next two to three years, some of that capacity will be activated, but probably not all of it. In the mid- to longer term, China will be in balance. It will not be an exporter and could even go into deficit and be an importer [of aluminum]. That would be good for the world aluminum market. The price of aluminum going forward will be higher than...
...infancy---long before Google was a site, let alone a verb--AOL reigned supreme and alone. But 17 years after modems squawked onto the debut dial-ups, competition has sped ahead, and AOL may finally be ditching its once lucrative subscription model for a more promising ad-driven approach...
...time there weren?t many live-action people on television. It was a time of Transformers and merchandise-driven shows that I didn?t think were creative. I believe kids liked the Playhouse because it was very fast-paced and colorful. And more than anything, it never talked down to them. I always felt like kids were real smart and should be dealt with that...
Another strategic surprise would be to engage the largest, most influential country in South America: Brazil. For decades U.S. policy toward Latin America has been driven by emergencies and a small-country bias: Cuba, the tiny Central American nations, Grenada and Haiti have all consumed far more of Washington's time and resources than giant Brazil, which was too big, remote and independent to be a pawn in the cold war. The only significant departure from the U.S.'s small-country bias has been with Mexico, first in the creation of NAFTA and then when Washington bailed the country...
...hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney, the primary intellectual force behind Bush's post-9/11 policies. "There's a move, even by Cheney, toward the Kissingerian approach of focusing entirely on vital interests," says a presidential adviser. "It's a more focused foreign policy that is driven by realism and less by ideology...