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Chinese oil stocks and storage capacity went through major growth spurts at the turn of the century, and then again after the global financial crisis of 2008-09.

But the decline in the inflation rate doesn’t compensate for the fact that prices have ended up considerably higher than they were before the spurt in inflation.

She waves her hand, and our glacier spurts stalagmites of ice.

That is, an initial spurt tends to be followed by a more moderate pace before widespread adoption.

“Caesar had now been performing for eight years,” Mr. Margolick writes, “and, thin and haggard, wore every week of it . . . it had happened in spurts rather than in increments.”