Panic grips the markets, spreading outward from one global capital and then back inward in a spiraling oscillation of fear and greed and fear again that roams from New York to London to Germany to Japan and back to New York again, whether through Moscow or Calgary or Milan.
The 1983 novel, by Graham Swift, from which the picture has been adapted is a determinedly inward-looking work: unpromising material for a film.
But some in the property sector argue that London should not be preventing inward investment during a recession.
Instead, gas and dust would simply have orbited around our star without moving inward, creating a so-called "dead zone" in the disk.
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In Britain, which has long welcomed foreign direct investment and for a time served as a stepping-stone for outsiders who wanted to crash the unfriendly European market, inward investment has been a particular boon.
Seen originally as a huge inward investment project, it was built with foreign money and government funds in the hope of creating a world-standard private hospital to be used by wealthy foreigners.
Inward investment was such a big part of Welsh economy with the demise particularly of heavy industry.
Insurers have a remarkably inward-looking focus, with little effort expended to engage regulators, policymakers and others.
But if Sellafield did not exist, new inward investors might feel a bit more positive about the area.
"The fact is that if the renamed constitution goes through we will have a more inward-looking Europe, " said Mr Hague.
He sank five birdies on his inward nine holes for a five-under effort to lead US compatriot Steve Stricker by two.
Canada's Mike Weir looked like he might challenge for the Open after a strong opening, but a poor inward nine saw him slip back to three over.
Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).
For this, we set it up between two inward pointing monitors to create a triangle.
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The sprawling city risked disintegrating into a collection of inward-looking suburbs.
Notwithstanding Britain's popularity as a destination for inward investment, many foreign businessmen still think the British economy is hamstrung by high inflation and bad industrial relations.
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The balcony doors were closed for hours the day Miss Zahau was supposedly cut down, how is that possible, there was no breeze it was an enclosed courtyard and besides the doors open inward to close the doors a breeze had to come from inside the room.
He described it as a pendulum in which riders are seated in a circle, facing inward.
Guyana became heavily indebted as a result of the inward-looking, state-led development model pursued in the 1970s and 1980s.
If the source of the foreign exchange is inward investors, not exporters, a country can impose capital controls to deter them.
Jon Fairburn, from Staffordshire University Business School, said planting flowers in derelict land helped "present a good image to inward investors".
The strategy promised 500, 000 new jobs a year and increased inward investment - dependent, according to the government, on more transparent public spending and improved security.
Government officials are at a loss to understand why inward investment has dried up.
Triadic architecture, developed by the Maya, involved a main structure with two inward-facing buildings on either side.
To that end, Liverpool Vision (the council's inward investment arm) has set up a dedicated office in Shanghai.
The move has been described by the Welsh Development Agency - the body responsible for bringing inward investment into Wales - as "a major boost".
The IPPR paper also points to the lack of a strong economic development agency, particularly for the north-east, without which Scotland is at a significant advantage in attracting inward investors.
Martin Togneri former chief executive of Scottish Development International said: "Scotland would be much more competitive with corporation tax" and the level of the tax was a key factor in corporate inward investment decisions.
To make matters worse, Cox, who was born with a dislocated hip and therefore an inward-turning leg, was teased for having "crazy legs".
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