Partly, perhaps, because of the third popular criticism of our bubble thesis: that it is too risky, both economically and politically, for a central bank to prick a bubble by raising interest rates.
But 100 years is a mere pin-prick for a country that dates back over two millennia.
Half the cuddled babies did not show any facial expression of pain when undergoing a heel prick test.
BIS, and Philip Lowe, at the Reserve Bank of Australia, have tried to shift the emphasis of this debate away from the question of whether central banks should prick a bubble.
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At age four, they were also given a skin-prick test to see if they had any of the most common allergies, including dust mite, animal fur, pollen, milk, eggs or peanuts.
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Peering upwards looking for a flitter of action, the only movement was the pin prick of light from a satellite as it tracked across the starry sky.
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But checking levels involves a painful finger-prick test, which deters many from carrying out the test.
Prick the sausage, put it in a small baking pan, and bake for 20 minutes.
The bubble will eventually burst anyway, but it would have been better to prick it sooner at the cost of a mild recession than to risk a deeper recession later.
Prick the dough all over with the tines of a fork and transfer it to the baking sheet.
His task as a science-fiction writer was to imagine problems, to prick thumbs.
By raising interest rates to prick the bubble of inflation, the Fed induces a mild recession that is particularly hard on smaller companies.
If the academics can prick the proprietors' amour propre, there's a chance they might change the British press.
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Raising official interest rates sufficiently to prick what may or may not be one could itself trigger a deep recession.
The very moment that she felt the prick she sank down into the bed that was right there and fell into a deep sleep.
He is a waspish critic of American policy towards the Muslim world under George Bush, but manages to prick Western misconceptions without falling into Mr Crooke's error of taking extremist movements entirely at their own estimation.
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