Heilbroner's theory has become doctrine in some economics textbooks: for example, Monte Palmer disparages nontechnological rural development projects as inhibiting constructive change.
Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.
General Richards sums up the need as reconstruction, development, governance and relations with Pakistan, all wrapped up in a environment of growing security.
Many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too cost1y and the rai1roads therefore have them by the throat.
Demographers reckon that three quarters of humanity could be city dwelling by 2050, with most of the increase coming in the fast growing towns of Asia and Africa.