Word: blipped
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...talk show host said Franzen "was not even a blip on the radar screen of my life," although by 2003, she switched from picking contemporary books to classic titles, including John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Gabriel Garcí]a Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train...
...back in 1998," says Eric Berglof, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, who reckons the financial-market problems will result in a "smallish blip" in the economy rather than any bigger meltdown. Certainly, the situation today is very different from a decade ago, he and others point out: Russia currently has a whopping $550 billion in foreign-currency reserves, a hefty budget surplus, a negligible national debt and an economy that remains on course to grow by 7% this year. The fount of much of the nation's newfound wealth...
...class to ensure there are no duplicate votes. This process can also be used to catch votes by people not in the voting class and should eliminate any votes by the class of 2008. The missent e-mail is, according to Monti, “not even really a blip on our radar.” Despite this mishap, the Marshal elections are running smoothly. Sixty-one students are competing for 16 spots in the first round of elections, which closes tomorrow at midnight. The top 16 then enter the second round of elections, which will ultimately yield eight Class...
...will we believe the next offering that Wall Street will be retailing this week? "It's a buying opportunity!" "It's a short term blip!" A new report by Bernstein Global Wealth management notes that booms and busts often result in "unduly pronounced security mispricing," meaning, we tend to overdo things. Take banks, which were crushed in 1990 by real estate losses. (Sound familiar?) Ultimately, the game reset and bank stocks zoomed 199% through 1996, outpacing...
...With his choice of Palin, McCain "definitely caught their attention," Lake adds. But whether this is merely a blip or a real trend has yet to be determined. Obama strategist Anita Dunn predicts there will be a "settling effect" in the polls as the Democratic campaign brings more scrutiny to Palin's record - drawing attention, for instance, to the fact that she once actively supported the infamous "bridge to nowhere" earmark that she now claims to have turned down. At a news conference Tuesday morning in Riverside, Ohio, Obama himself dismissed the latest polling numbers and predicted that women...