And it loves above all to splurge on the biggest, showiest rockets, like the intercontinental ballistic missile it fired eastwards into the sea on February 18th.
El Nino sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
Many poorer Jews were consequently forced to migrate eastwards to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which had a long history of toleration of the Jewish people.
The journalists' employer Radio de France international said they were reported to have been killed shortly afterwards on a desert truck that leads eastwards out of Kidal.
A century and a half ago back during John Wesley Powell's time when he correctly identified the 100th Meridian as the approximate boundary, the line has steadily shifted eastwards to around the 98th Meridian today.
As you say, a youngish man, a man, I should say, of somewhat timid bearing, ran rapidly out of the shop here, and bounced into a hansom that must have been waiting for him, as it went eastwards at once.