The economy remains fragile, but not nearly as fragile as it once was.
Rather than make stock prices anti-fragile, guidance makes them more fragile.
Bear's work in fragile X started with a chance encounter a decade ago with Emory University geneticist Stephen Warren, who discovered the gene for fragile X in 1991.
But fragile growth at Britain's rate of 2.2% during 2002 is still a lot nicer to have than fragile growth at France's 1.7%, Italy's 1.0% or Germany's 0.5%.
High prices for the precious metal, price volatility, a fragile labor market, depressed real estate prices and volatile stock market all contributed to hesitant consumer demand and fragile consumer confidence, WGC said.
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"The U.S. situation is fragile: The stock market feels good, the short-run outlook is reasonably good, but it is fragile in that it depends on consistent and big imports of foreign capital, " Volcker says.
As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.
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The reality is that the sustainability of this fragile desert environment is a huge concern.
It is only by participating in this divine life that mortal, fragile human beings fulfil their potential.
In the late afternoon the pinkish, alabaster light is so fragile it feels as if it could shatter.
Labour had said the rise would be wrong at a time when the economic recovery was still fragile.
The bourgeoisie originally used the fragile boxes to hold snuff, fake beauty marks and hard candies.
They're very fragile, and you can scratch a film on its very first screening.
It's just turning fragile children into damaged adults - turning out a generation of career criminals.
However, cleaning and restoration is thought to be too risky because the painting is fragile.
That hurts an already fragile housing market since foreclosed homes sales will be stalled.
Yet business's new enthusiasm for clean energy is a fragile green shoot in a dark landscape.
Her fragile coalition government in Uttar Pradesh broke up last month amid recriminations over the project.
The nation faces two big challenges: In the short term, the economy is still extremely fragile.
The Lebanon kidnappings underscored the fragile balance in the country, where sectarian tensions are deep.
Still, there are inklings that the market is more fragile than the numbers would suggest.
And complementing the art is the museum's multimedia Riverama installation documenting the Hudson's fragile ecology.
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The economy is too fragile for us to let politics get in the way of action.
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The schism comes at a bad time for the still-fragile (and still-oil-addicted) global economy.
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Conservation director Martin Harper said it was a "stark reminder of how fragile this species is".
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American troops trying to hold on to fragile security gains in the city have little choice.
Bowers showed IBM how Bubble Wrap could protect the 1401's fragile innards in transit.
"Documents recording our heritage are precious, fragile and their contents easily forgotten, " she said.
Second, even in the absence of enemy air defenses, unmanned aircraft are relatively fragile.
And he criticised the assessment of the area where the men died as "benign but fragile".
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