Over the past decade, a period when giant stock and credit bubbles burst, equity investors were punished for taking risk.

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The visitors showed more attacking impetus at the start of the second period as right-back Richard Foster burst across field and down the left before his cross was nervously cleared out for a corner by Orlando Engelaar.

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One obstacle to this is the boom period from 1982 through the tech bubble-burst, to the housing bubble-burst.

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However, as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War structure collapsed, and the world economy entered an unprecedented period of globalization, the 1980s Japanese economy bubble burst.

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The publicly-owned company said that a recent burst of rain had not resolved the issue as a sustained period of heavy rainfall was required to start replenishing the reservoirs.

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Rooney had been kept in check for most of the opening period but he hinted at his threat when he burst through to round Tim Howard but his touch was too heavy and the chance was gone.

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Steven Milunovich, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, thinks that the tech industry evolves through waves lasting 10-15 years, as innovation leads to a burst of spending on new technologies, then to a less exciting period of assimilation.

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Blues flanker Martyn Williams had eased his way back into action in the opening period, but at the start of the second he burst into life, perhaps exploiting the Ospreys' lack of a genuine open-side after Ryan Jones replaced Tandy at the break.

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The financial crisis which burst across world markets in 2008 stemmed from explosive monetary policy during the preceding period.

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