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The digging of the groove in the dirt by the cannonball constitutes the construction of constraints on the release of energy, for the water flowing down the gravitational potential to the bean field is just such a constrained release of energy.
A majority of economists believes that during a severe depression--which certainly doesn't describe America right now--it's important to pay people to do make-work (digging ditches or restoring hiking trails will also do).
The WP 's story emphasizes growing governmental concern, quoting Tony Blair's assessment that the West's economies "will not emerge from this turmoil without being affected by it," and a senior U.S. official's revelation that communications between Washington and Tokyo "are getting testier, and there is pessimism here about whether Japan has any conception about how to stop digging the hole it's in."
In a profession obsessed with scoops, it's nice to see some digging instead.
The homes of the region’s first settlers had to be moved here, east of Morrisburg, when their original location was flooded in the digging of the St. Lawrence Seaway.