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Harry does all of these things to his young and would-be young readers. After reading a Potter chronicle, they dream that they are on the Quidditch field or climbing through a portrait at the top of a spiral staircase. They wish desperately that they could talk to Harry. They also think about evil in the book: an evil that never disappears, but remains a constant for sequel after sequel, gaining strength in times of complacency...
...spotty track record when it comes to matching supply with demand. In the 1990s, strict government controls fed a speculative price bubble that made Hong Kong one of the world's most expensive real estate markets. When the bubble burst in 1997 during Asia's financial crisis, a deflationary spiral ensued, knocking prices down by some 60% and destroying much of the wealth of property owners and commercial developers...
...campus; Mingwei and his administrative allies in the Office for the Arts are already eyeing the grove near the chapel in the Yard. He wants to “design cloth that sort of coils out, like this”—he draws a widening spiral in the air with a finger—“like an eddy...
...scoring play, Fitzpatrick threw a high spiral to Morris, who easily caught the ball and swiftly ran it into the end zone...
...etiquette," says Gobert, whose Ecolo party is pushing to end the practice. Others say the real problem may lie elsewhere: "As far as the politicians were concerned Sabena had been sold and they weren't interested in it any more," grouses Gacoms. When Sabena was nosing into its death spiral, in the summer of 2001, a remarkable meeting took place at the sumptuous Astoria Hotel in Brussels. Over dinner on July 16, four months before the company tanked for good, Prime Minister Verhofstadt and the new head of Swissair cobbled together an agreement - in secret. In exchange for a Swiss...