And there are stones from the Cotswolds, an area in England he bubbles with excitement over.
Instead, by 2002, counties must have in place optical scanners, which require voters fill in bubbles with a pencil.
In stock markets, financial bubbles grow with the help of several types of positive feedback.
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We have been at zero percent since December 16, 2008 with recreated bubbles in commodities and equities with the housing bubble still deflating and with toxic mortgage securities still sloshing around the banking system.
Seeing the same people every day, campaign teams develop bubbles quickly, with feedback loops determining the information that everyone consumes.
It has a crew of 20 plus 24 scientists, and features a special hull that diverts bubbles that interfere with sonar operations, and a high-efficiency diesel-electric propulsion system.
Blowout preventers (BOPs) are designed to deal with bubbles.
For many, the biggest challenge with thought bubbles is simply becoming aware of them.
For real accuracy, though, Dr Fritzsch thinks that the bubbles could be fitted with homing devices.
As with previous bubbles over the last three decades, the commodities bubble has been financed by excessive borrowing.
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The bubbles could be loaded with the drug and injected into an artery leading into the trouble spot.
Most bubbles in asset markets are bubbles in price, with too much money being thrown at too few earnings.
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With all bubbles come the inflation, the euphoria, and finally the pop, so there is bound to be some pain around the corner.
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Some would say that bubbles tend to coincide with periods of great economic change, such as the development of the railways or the internet.
Researchers at Schering, led by Thomas Fritzsch, are hoping that bubbles will allow drugs with nasty side-effects such as those used to treat cancer to be dispensed precisely where they are needed.
The power of Wall Street, in effect, to corner markets worldwide in vital basic commodities, has played havoc with the business cycle and has fostered bubbles, allowing them to occur more often and with ever increasing amplitudes.
The bubbles were dissipated, along with the water jet, when the claws snapped shut.
He said monetary policy is typically ill suited to dealing with financial market bubbles.
Bubbles provide curmudgeonly financial scribes with great mounds of juicy copy.
Meanwhile on the domestic front, it listed potential threats including rising property prices, which have triggered fears that new asset bubbles could form, along with "excessive off-balance sheet financing" by banks and local governments.
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Bubbles have their reasons but the law of averages when combined with the law of large numbers means that bubbles go pop!
Banking crises, usually associated with asset-price bubbles (because that is where the risky lending goes), nearly always follow this pattern.
Companies such as French Bubbles operate Champagne pairing events, matching bubbly with sushi, chocolate and cheese.
Even with the most insidious-looking bubbles, though, it is impossible to know at the time how devastating the pop will be.
It is quite understandable given the housing and stock bubbles we all experienced over the past decade with plenty of lingering aftershocks.
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The picture they reveal of failing ambitions, both imperial and economic, throws light upon themes and impulses that are still with us today, from financial bubbles to the aftermath of empire.
The album's title track bubbles luxuriantly, as a bass guitar chugs along with the infectious melody and jangly guitars swim above.
With stagnation, inflation, contagion, bubbles, inside trading and unscrupulous dealings seen around every corner, equities have been viewed as risky, unreliable assets.
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Whether the problems were rising interest rates that affected their sales, or bursting bubbles that scared consumers, economic slowdowns usually began with problems in the housing and auto industries, and the first signs of recovery were usually seen in the same two industries.
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