Two transient orcas near Alaska's eastern Aleutian Islands.

Only 10 of gamma ray sources are non transient sources.

Nonetheless, repayment spikes this year constitute a real short term challenge.

This quartet was first called The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes.

It featured two 20 inch long spikes which protruded from its shoulders.

This is the nature of the project candid, transient, no encore, no recourse until now.

As a result, women dominate the informal economy, where jobs are often transient and earnings are low.

Since these responses are overdue, they are severe and lead to energy price spikes and volatility.

It was sincerely believed, and supported by deep intuitive judgment, that interruptions in this upward trajectory could only be small and transient.

Moreover, foreign assistance, while stable in normal developing countries, often exhibits sharp spikes in countries undergoing war to peace transitions.

So here's a dinosaur that has spikes sticking out of its head, no dome and gnarly stuff on its nose.

More telling, the countries that cut expenditure the most experienced the largest bond yield spikes and the most significant debt growth.

Again as in Chile, they suggest that, while political regimes are transient, the heart and honor of a nation always rests with its Army.

The spikes on the back of the Stygimoloch are actually resorbing, which means they're getting smaller as that dome is getting bigger.

And then Stygimoloch, another dinosaur from the same age, lived at the same time, has spikes sticking out the back of its head.

The US uses only half as much oil per dollar of production as it did before the price spikes of the 1970 s.

The Metamovement isn't just a faint, transient echo, but the increasingly resonant reverberation of people challenging this brutal state of malfunction, this Great Splintering of institutions and social contracts.

A post modern neglect or disdain for reality generated the sense that the whole world was constantly shifting and malleable, and might be as transient and meaningless as stock quotations.

Severe unrest in the Middle East has historically been a source of oil price spikes, which in turn have triggered three of the last five global recessions.

In recent decades, vulnerability and economic insecurity have increased with the rise of transient, casual, and precarious employment, including self employment, and part time, fixed term, temporary, and on call jobs.

Capital flight, interest rate spikes, declining private investment, and a collapse in the value of the dollar all of these are likely should financial markets lose confidence in a Fed chairman.

In the summer of 2012, huge price spikes happened, which seriously damaged the quality of life of a huge number of citizens, paving the way for the organization of social protests.

Likewise, following the 2008 global economic crisis, food price spikes and recession caused the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to revise its hunger estimates upward, to more than one billion people.

Yet, given clear inflationary pressures in countries like Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Russia, and notable price spikes in China, the world just might have reached a moment when agreement can be reached.

According to the organizers, army check points and nail spikes strewn on the road delayed the caravan s convoy while the residents of Bondoc Peninsula were warned by military men against joining the mission.

Resurgent prices for commodities are creating huge revenues for owners of mines and oil fields, even as price spikes for basic staples are sparking food riots, if not wholesale revolutions, in the developing world.

Since the price spikes of the 1970 s, US oil consumption per dollar of GDP has fallen by half, which also reflects the general economic shift away from industrial manufacturing to less energy intensive production.

For now, though, instead of whining about high commodity prices, governments should be shielding only their very poorest citizens, and letting the price spikes serve as a wake up call for the rest of us.

For a variety of reasons, mostly related to government intervention, few emerging market economies can be categorized as having flexible resource demand, so commodity price spikes are not having a particularly big effect on demand.

The US uses only half as much oil per dollar of production as it did before the price spikes of the 1970 s. But over half the oil Americans use goes for driving cars and trucks.

The American, who won the 200 metres and 400 metres at the 1996 Games in Atlanta among his total of four Olympic golds and is now a regular BBC pundit, was left unable to walk after suffering a transient ischemic attack.

If you look along the edge of the frill, they have these little triangular bones that actually grow big as triangles and then they flatten against the frill pretty much like the spikes do on the Pachycephalosaurs.

While Central and Eastern Europe has been the emerging market region to suffer the most in the crisis, it has generally avoided the currency collapses, systemic banking failures, and spikes in inflation that were the staple of previous crises.

Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world s population.

It had become an article of faith that the value of both types of assets only goes up in the long run, and that it is foolish to try to time the market. It was sincerely believed, and supported by deep intuitive judgment, that interruptions in this upward trajectory could only be small and transient.

And what we've got is a very, very high level of virus right at the beginning when you're first infected, then you start making antibodies, and then it bumps along at quite low levels for a long time 10 or 12 years you have spikes if you get another sexually transmitted infection.

Whatever the exchange rate regime, fixed or floating, which a country adopts it is surely unwise to promote or even allow net import of foreign capital in such transient liquid form as developing markets have done over the course of this decade. Governments and central banks should use their powers to steer the import of foreign capital into direct fixed investment, equity, and to a limited extent long term hard currency debt.