Some of the hot money that poured out of hedge funds could easily return at the first sign of stability.
In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.
Doctors in the U.K. argued vociferously that the most effective way to slow the progress of the disease is to give drugs at the first sign of dementia.
In order to head off a round of sharply higher energy prices -- spurred by anticipation of future supply disruptions and the activities of speculators -- the United States obtained the agreement of its allies to release Western oil stocks at the first sign of significant price hikes.
On Tuesday, flights into and out of the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland and Scotland's Hebrides were suspended at the first sign of an increase of volcanic ash levels in the skies.
The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
But the Democrats' image-making is clearly relying on Lieberman's presence to invoke the sort of Old Testament avenging angel who'll rain down plagues at the first sign of moral turpitude.
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But the dominant new group of buyers in Vegas are the very speculators who might flee at the first sign of a weakening market.
For one thing, any easing of prices seems certain to be reversed at the first sign of cold weather.
Mr Obama cannot fail to see that he of all presidents would face severe punishment at the slightest sign of weakness.
Instead, essential bits of energy infrastructure are built to shut down at the first sign of trouble, spreading blackouts and increasing their economic impact.
If international investors know where they stand, there would be less of the "rush to the exit" panic at the first sign of trouble.
He believes that black Americans made a great historical error in the 1960s when they relaxed their campaign for civil rights and integration at the first sign of progress, turning their back in many cases on the "blacks only" hotels and restaurants which had sustained them during segregation in favour of the businesses which were newly opening to them.
In 2000, and again in 2006, the Bank of Japan was all too ready to raise interest rates at the first sign of a return of rising prices.
The tool could enable clinicians to detect Alzheimer's earlier and more accurately in patients at the earliest sign of memory problems a potential boon to treatment and developing drugs against the disease.
Since reaching the final of the 2006 World Cup, the French have won just one of their 10 tournament matches and have exhibited an alarming tendency to unravel at the first sign of difficulty.
If you make it a habit of solving problems for people, you simply teach them to come to you for solutions at the first sign of a challenge.
At the first sign of a strengthening dollar, you should sell the bond, she says.
Most past efforts have been incidental and have been abandoned at the earliest sign of failure.
Those businesses will have capital to reinvest at the first sign of market recovery.
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Most past efforts have been incidental and were abandoned at the earliest sign of failure.
And don't ask for a raise at the first sign of your company's turnaround.
Fund managers are quick to hedge or liquidate at the first sign of trouble.
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These people would then be able to sue at the first sign of trouble.
Agree that at the first sign of trouble, you will all proceed to it without delay.
But the unions will distance themselves from the protesters at the first sign of broken windows.
They say at the first sign of trouble the Tories caved in to their backbenchers over Lords reform.
Many will likely do so at the first sign of a market pullback.
They will begin hedging and trimming exposure at the first sign of trouble.
The ECB would also be able to intervene with smaller lenders and borrowers at the first sign of trouble.
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