Another nerve-wracking way to play Asia is through the currencies, which have been in freefall, too.
She says some investors are asking if their portfolios contain stocks that are in freefall.
If Choice Hotels is an organization that's slipping, Carlson is one that's in freefall.
In answer to the question from our reader: No, property prices in China are not in freefall.
These numbers are particularly heartening when you consider where we were a year ago, with an economy in freefall.
By 1982, GDP was in freefall and dropped 12% year over year, the worst since the Great Depression.
"Shark populations are in freefall, but have been thrown a lifeline today - Cites has finally listened to the scientists, " he said.
Thus, the first task of the new administration had to be to be to turn around an economy in freefall.
Home values were in freefall -- nobody knew what the floor was.
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It was a ruthless performance from United but the reality was they barely had to break sweat to beat a Pompey side in freefall.
Their jumps were staggered for safety reasons and both left the plane at about 14, 000ft (4, 300m), reaching speeds of up to 200mph (322kph) in freefall.
Indeed, the credibility of Mr Kostunica's government is in freefall.
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British citizens on pensions in foreign countries could see their locally denominated incomes drop by half from their peak (well, not against the euro, which is also in freefall).
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There were days when I just wanted to run away from Project Julie, where I felt as if I was in freefall and plummeting to the ground without a parachute.
"Together, we proved that a human in freefall can break the speed of sound returning from near space, going through a transonic phase and landing safely on the ground, " said Dr Jonathan Clark, a former space shuttle flight surgeon and the Red Bull Stratos medical director.
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The game could have turned into a rout had Fulham kept pushing but a series of substitutions slowed the pace and the home side were happy to play out a convincing victory which leaves them in mid-table and leaves West Brom in freefall after five straight defeats.
What we now have a most unusual situation - a bank in Scotland with profits in freefall despite previous attempts at gutting expenses, comparatively few branches and soon to become fewer, effectively little more than an financial call centre with a few cheque cashing shops and a couple of trendy business centres.
Ever since Mr Brown had backed Mr Blair, Mr Cameron asserted, the former prime minister's campaign had been in "freefall".
Gold pulled back from its record highs this week when equities fell sharply Thursday, with several analysts at the time citing selling of gold to raise cash to cover losses and margin calls in equities and other commodities that were in a freefall.
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Amid that backdrop you might think that the European stock market is in a total freefall.
Economists tell us that the Recovery Act has helped stop the freefall in our economy and created or saved as many as two million jobs so far.
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But the Greens' freefall in the polls this weekend, leaves the ruling coalition looking fragile, and the Free Democrats are already positioning themselves to make a move to replace them in the federal coalition following the 2002 general elections.
Of course, it's not quite that simple, but it does give a sense of Suarez's importance in keeping the club from freefall.
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