Even the IMF now favours judicious limits on capital surges, if nothing else works. But some capital controls are more excusable than others.
These surges can injure or even kill astronauts and fry electronic circuits.
So private sector spending surges anew, fiscal deficits shrink and the economy appears to being going back to normal, at last.
The electric system does several jobs. It cranks the engine for starting. It supplies the high-voltage surges that ignite the compressed air-fuel mixture in the combustion chambers.
As bulldozers wiped out wetland flora, Shanghai lost its natural barriers that can mitigate erosion and absorb the shock of storm surges, Yang explained.
This year, in the middle of the recession, many schools are seeing enrollment surges of 10 percent to 15 percent.
Their role is to prevent one-off surges from translating into persistently higher pressure on prices.
Major surges in 1963 and 1973 caused the formation of ephemeral lakes that swelled behind the ice.
Saudi Arabian water demand has increased by 500% in 25 years and is expected to double again in 20 years - as power demand surges as much as 10% a year.
Customers have no incentive to conserve power when it is scarce during times of peak demand, so generating firms have to build lots of spare capacity to cope with surges in consumption.
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