If so, another telecoms bubble in Europe could be in prospect.
But Richard Jeffrey, an economist at Charterhouse, an investment bank, fears that the economy is still expanding too rapidly, and that a rather harder landing may therefore be in prospect.
The Waltham Forest Guardian reported that the decision was taken despite pleas from "furious protesters", including disabled 29-year-old Hayley Bowden, from Leytonstone, who was said to be in tears at the prospect of being unable to get to other branches with her eight-year-old daughter.
The Germans are already warning not to expect anything very dramatic or comprehensive from this weekend's EU summit - in which case the G20 will be staring failure in the face, a prospect that will infuriate President Obama as well as our own PM.
But offsetting that will be the prospect of bringing in Joe Lieberman, an independent who attends the Democratic caucus, and Olympia Snowe, an independent-minded Republican.
There has to be at least the prospect in the near future of a programme of recapitalisation, of bringing these banks within a safe haven again.
The Windows Phone smartphones are likely to be the biggest prospect for Microsoft in 2013.
Yet the DPJ may be less frightening in office than in prospect.
There is no verification system known today or in prospect that will be able unfailingly to detect lethal chemical agent production and storage.
The Hammers face Chelsea and Manchester City in their next two matches but Grant insisted they will not be daunted by the prospect of facing two of the top four teams in the league.
Galliani said he did not believe Ronaldinho would be deterred by the prospect of playing in the Uefa Cup next season.
There will be no lack of people, some very high up in government, who will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of seeing La Maestra behind bars.
If the bond markets dry up, there will not be much prospect of emerging economies financing themselves in other ways.
But some Labour MPs have accused the coalition of gerrymandering while some Lib Dems are reported to be unhappy about the prospect of losing seats in the shake-up - agreed as a package earlier this year in combination with May's referendum on the voting system.
If even Mr. Tata's most high-profile project could be caught up in populist Indian politics, imagine the prospect for foreign companies.
But for those for whom prevention has not succeeded, the work of Dr Bolli and his collaborators and rivals brings hope that a heart attack will, in the future, not be quite the fearful prospect it is today.
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Dubbed QE3, this latest Fed threat to debase the dollar lifted the price of gold, oil and other commodities in August, as investors priced in the prospect that the Fed will be dumping more dollars into the system before the election.
Federer even hinted recently that he'd like to be around for the Rio Olympics in 2016, though that prospect sounds a little Favre-erer.
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You know, it's terrible to face the prospect that your job will be going away in a year and a half or in two years, but on the other hand they get paid until then, and then when they retire, they still get almost fully paid health care, and they'll have a pension.
The banks say the advantage to them of such a deadline lies not in the prospect of locking out any potential claimants, but in bringing forward the date when they will be absolutely certain of how much they will have to pay out.
The authorities seem to be in no hurry to move again, leaving speculators little imminent prospect of making money.
Leaders of ASEAN may finally be waking up to what is happening in the neighborhood: the prospect of a failed state.
MPs and donors will be spitting at the prospect of the party campaigning to stay in the EU in a referendum.
"If every employee in the land faced the prospect that they could be removed arbitrarily, the destabilising effect could be devastating, " he said.
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And Noble, for its part, will be especially careful, since its newly permitted well in the Santiago prospect is 46.5% owned by BP.
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The prospect of lower revenues would be expected to result in an operating deficit at our current level of expenses in the first half of 2013.
Places like China, South Africa and the Pacific rim countries, particularly, will adopt the technology eventually, so we could be faced with the prospect of importing fruit into this country in 10 or 20 years' time.
While the prospect of employment in the industry will always be an incentive for SEC Commissioners and staffers to fawn over the industry, responsiveness to investors should be a requirement for getting and keeping a job at the agency.
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If such a formal accreditation system could be established it would raise the prospect of online students anywhere in the world being able to study for a degree with famous universities, at a cost that is likely to be much lower than a traditional campus-based course.
This would be a particularly serious prospect were the Social Democrats to gain power in the 2 December elections.
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