And into that ferment came the microprocessor.

The other pre dough that we make is fermented our pre ferment.

It was a political ferment, so to say students out in the streets of Paris, revolting against authority.

It is such pursuits that lend vigour to our societies and create the positive ferment that is the primum movens of civilizations.

Like Egypt s war of attrition, the eurozone s underlying economic, financial, and social ferment continues. If governments continue to stumble from one patchwork remedy to another a probability that remains uncomfortably high the delay in implementing a comprehensive solution will eventually overwhelm the defenses that the ECB has so courageously put in place.

Whatever the cause, the boom seems an unlikely capstone to a century of war, ferment, and revolution, and only adds to the sense of discontinuity that characterizes modern China. Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post 1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world s developmental hopes.