Perhaps they think prosperity will vanish in a puff of terrorist smoke or a housing-market collapse.
However, if not, what looks like a cloud could, in fact, be merely a puff of smoke.
"Then the whole thing goes up in a puff of smoke, " she said.
Four minutes later, the same car is again seen passing the bar, this time with a puff of smoke visible.
Chinese tour boats take you past Sinuiju's decaying factories whose smokestacks, locals say, haven't let out a puff of smoke in years.
These use light waves to scan individual green beans, which are rejected by a puff of air if they show up as defective.
Does it matter that the odd layabout finds himself locked up (for up to a year, in theory) for a puff of cannabis?
Therefore, a puff of water appearing on a Martian sample cooked to that temperature would imply that it is partly made of clay.
They found that just over half of the 15 to16-year-olds said they had not had a puff of a cigarette in the past three months.
So on July 1 we'll see a puff of smoke from large companies telling us whether they think it is now cheaper to buy than make.
The announcement that a decision has been made will come in the form of a puff of white smoke emerging from a chimney in the Vatican.
Over and over again Ms Reno has intimated that a deadline was about to be reached, only to let it vanish in a puff of smoke.
He suggests that society should have empathy for those who lack it and that they should receive treatment: a puff of the hormone oxytocin, might do the trick.
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With a puff of white smoke at the Vatican on Oct. 16, 1978, a Polish cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla was chosen as the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years.
But Vatican insiders aren't the only prospective pontiffs punters can wager on in the hopes that a puff of white smoke will finally put their bank accounts into the black.
There would be no collaterialised debt obligations, (CDOs), no credit default swaps (CDS), indeed much of the complexity of the financial markets would simply disappear in a puff of smoke.
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The researchers played a sound and then, after a set period of time that varied between each group, blew a puff of air into the rats' eyes, making them blink.
Mr Givan said it was a good thing that the executive was not handing back money to Westminster and dismissed the disagreement with the minister as "a hullaballoo over a puff of smoke".
Tall and wiry, with a puff of wavy dark hair, he is nearly as well known in Washington for his punishing early-morning workouts as he is for his mastery of the federal budget.
Technology an even less resistible force is also destroying white- and blue-collar tasks in a puff of automation and may play a bigger role in explaining rising wage inequality and the sluggish growth of middling wages.
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The benefits for high-income taxpayers are for the most part loaded onto the back end of the law's ten-year span, and at the end of that period the whole thing vanishes in a puff of smoke.
Like recent offerings from Ford and others, the 2014 model adds a much larger 9.4 kWh battery to last year's non-plug-in hybrid, letting you trundle on electrons alone at up to 80MPH for 20 miles or so with with nary a puff of CO2.
One churchman was confronted with a village of people who genuinely believed the claims of a woman who claimed to be a witch and who said, amongst other things, that she could turn herself into a puff of smoke and leave a locked room through the keyhole.
The election of the new pope was announced to the world as is tradition of the church with a vigorous puff of white smoke from the smokestack of the Sistine Chapel, where 115 cardinals had been sequestered since Tuesday evening to pick Catholicism's new leader.
Tippett then smacks the ball with such force that I half expect to see only a spectral puff of smoke hanging over his tee.
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The following recipe features sea scallops and thin slivers of mango on a golden round of puff pastry, sprinkled with a little cilantro.
To a smoker the immediate, guaranteed pleasure of a good puff outweighs the long-term potential of cancer.
His lifetime consumption of tobacco is a single puff on a cigarette, his only alcohol intake a glass of champagne once a year.
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