Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
As global economic prospects worsened and financial markets went into shock, some of Swiss citizens' overseas wealth likely found its way back home - and will continue to do so.
Strategic innovation is the process of managing innovation, of making sure it takes place at all levels of the company, and that is related to the company's overall strategy.
But scientists know from in vitro fertilisation research that higher levels of glucose encourage the growth and development of male embryos while inhibiting female embryos.
Her mother, a purist, despised the Russian Riviera, and the idea that her daughter, classically trained and destined for greater things, would degrade herself by dancing there.