The economy remains fragile, but not nearly as fragile as it once was.
Alas, Corning , based in the sleepy upstate New York town it is named after, has a business history as fragile as glass.
Kawase Naomi's Suzaku, which won the prize at Cannes for best first film, is quiet, sorrowful and as fragile as the story it tells.
However, it is as fragile as it is beautiful.
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But is this the week that the bubble bursts, as investors wake up to the fact that hot new stocks may prove as fragile as they were in the last dotcom boom?
Alas, Corning (nyse: GLW - news - people ) , based in the sleepy upstate New York town it is named after, has a business history as fragile as glass.
That is no argument for human carelessness, environmentalists insist: species can adapt to almost anything over millions of years, but man's activities, such as scraping the ocean floor with nets, cause unbearably abrupt changes to ecosystems which are as delicate, complex and fragile as any Brazilian forest.
Even women carried their own knives out to dinner, and those, being accoutrements to party clothes, hung from their waists in silky sheaths that were as decorative as their dresses, and often just as fragile.
The time has come to change the way we see culture, to see it not just as fragile heritage or lavish recreation, but as a force for renewal and progress, an economic sector and a facilitator of development policies.
All at once, you appreciate being alive and whole as the gift that it is, as a fragile and wonderful state of affairs.
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Andy Wightman, of Land Action Scotland, described the community of Applecross as fragile and vulnerable.
All in all, not the best news for a country whose economy can be best described as fragile at the moment.
Some analysts warned that despite the positive data, exports continue to be fragile as conditions in those markets have not improved substantially.
But having done all that the hard work, Djokovic's serve once more proved fragile as Nadal broke for the fifth time in the match.
Mountain systems are particularly fragile as well, so many mountain ecosystems are moving along trajectories that couple high rates of environmental change with strong economic changes.
Job growth has slowed steadily since March, reminding investors, and job seekers, that recoveries typically evolve in fits and starts and that business and consumer confidence remain fragile as a result of that weak labor market.
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The manuscripts, described as "fragile documents", will be restored by a conservation company in Penzance.
It will reach a fever pitch between Christmas and New Year's, as more fragile temperaments begin to snap.
Nonetheless, sentiment continues to be fragile, as evidenced by the bearish sentiment numbers.
The economic situation is definitely fragile, as the decline in consumer confidence suggests.
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He learned to plan because when you were an enterprise with such a fragile item as bread, you have to plan.
But the economic foundations of the north's population expansion are fragile, as Andrew Burrell, an economist at Experian, a business consultancy, points out.
Capital markets firms are confronting evolving challenges, such as more fragile funding conditions, wider credit spreads, increased regulatory burdens and more difficult operating conditions.
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They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.
There will be more bad loans to deal with over the coming year, but Mr Mallon described the economic environment in Northern Ireland as "fragile".
"The birth of Holly Golightly in the truest sense started with how she looks, " says the actress, who says she plays Golightly as a fragile woman playing in dangerous waters.
Rolls-Royce, for instance, had to put up with investors dismissing it as a fragile maker of jet engines while it was in fact transforming itself into a global engineering, energy and services group.
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Ongoing supply disruptions, as well as the fragile state of global economy, call for a prompt increase in supply on a competitive basis that will allow refiners to boost throughputs and meet rising seasonal demand.
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