Word: crash
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...while painful, is ultimately a success story. In fact, Oriani could stand as a poster boy for a modern movement that seeks to understand resilience among the young: what it is that allows some kids to negotiate the tunnel to a brighter day, while others get lost or even crash...
...million Insurance premium Russia is buying against the possibility that Mir will crash into something other than the Pacific Ocean...
...aware of the effect speed has on times past and present. Those times that were once viewed as speedy are today viewed as slow. We move as if there has always been a slower and will always be a Faster. Gleick, however, portends that our racing population will eventually crash into the limits of speed. In some ways, he shows we have already done this; we have learned that one can't hurry decomposition, nor a souffle, nor love. Gleick quotes the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass explaining to Alice that, in her world...
...Students I have talked to about these things do not much remember the (at the time) breathtaking little Crash of 1987. But now they feel the earth shaking beneath their feet a bit. They entertain premonitions that the earth will open, and in some ghastly, bracing time reversal, will suck the gaudy Clinton era backward into a grainy trauma of black and white. Unthinkable reversions become possible - mass unemployment, who knows? We have already seen California's power grids shuddering. Will grass sprout through the silicon chips, and all that brilliant information revert to sand, and Gates to Ozymandias? Maybe...
...NASDAQ has of late been the economy's best leading indicator - the crash of spring 2000 begets the economic slowdown of fall 2000, for example - and the tech "wealth effect" has also become the main engine by which Alan Greenspan gets rate-cut money into people's pockets before the cuts actually have their full effect on the economy...