In other words, not quite the hordes of homeless, stateless refugees fleeing runaway climate change that the sensationalist headlines evoke.
But rate increases may only provide short-term relief, as this recent episode with runaway prices has shown that the RBI isn't very serious about controlling prices.
The outgoing IMF managing director said the depreciation of the dollar had been orderly, but cautioned there was a risk of a runaway sell-off that would hit growth in major economies.
No, say the inflation and dollar hawks, who have been wrong again and again but insist that this time their dire warnings about runaway prices and a plunging dollar really will be vindicated.
This is, first and foremost, a crisis brought on by a runaway financial industry.
This leads to a further reduction in temperature, creating more ice and possibly a runaway, 'snowball earth' scenario.
In the denouement of Great Expectations, we learn that Pip's secret benefactor is the runaway convict whom Pip had once helped.
At last he stopped the runaway horse.
The instrument can spot markers of runaway oxidation in a pregnant woman's body, an indicator of preeclampsia.
While Iran is one of the world's biggest oil producers its refineries are dilapidated and it suffers from runaway petrol demand because of generous subsidies.
User has hit the runaway recall limit.
Any increase above this level is expected to trigger runaway climate change, threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
One possible lesson of the disaster is the importance of improving blowout preventers - the devices atop Wells that cut off gushing oil in emergencies. The preventer on the runaway well failed.
But the size of each state's handout would be tied not to runaway medical inflation, but to the much more sedate general price index.
Doing so would be a useful exercise, and a helpful lesson in runaway recursion.
Danger of "runaway warming", perhaps spurred by release of oceanic methane hydrates.
This means more sunlight reaches the ocean surface - a runaway process that leads to more warming and less cloud cover.
To be sure, Chinese government authorities have sought to slow the rise in housing prices amid fears that runaway inflation may force them to clamp down even harder on the economy.
Part of the answer is that Iceland let foreign lenders to its runaway Banks pay the price of their poor judgment, rather than putting its own taxpayers on the line to guarantee bad private debts.
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