But lofty prices don't just loom in the grocery aisle and at the gas pump.
Yet even though things look bad now, a default probably does not loom in the near future.
In front of you, if the weather cooperates, the smoking peak of Arenal will loom in the distance.
For the past year 14-year-old Rakil Momeen has been working at a loom in a shack in Mirzapur.
The US defence department says it has begun laying off most of its 46, 000 temporary employees, as automatic defence budget cuts loom in March.
Kiichiro Toyoda's father Sakichi Toyoda invented the automatic loom in a backyard shed, mainly because he wanted to help his mother, who often was weaving in their home.
Several Conservative MPs mentioned the unrest the issue provokes in the ranks, and note that the timing is particularly unfortunate as the English County Council elections loom in May.
Relations with China and Boris Yeltsin's latest upheavals in Russia loom large in this week's national news.
In the real world of Washington, two factors will loom largest in how the government approaches reconstruction: political ideology and, more important, the power of lobbyists.
That profits gap will loom larger in coming years, as pressures on the sector worsen.
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Questions about handing back property or paying compensation will loom large in negotiating details of a settlement.
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Accordingly, cooperators loom large in both the hearts and minds of line prosecutors.
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It's hard to find a more 50-50 state where moderate and independent voters loom large in fall general elections.
Microsoft has underestimated how tiny usage obstacles loom large in the consumer experience.
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And the likes of the collapse of Enron also tend to loom large in the minds of critics of business morals.
For obvious reasons of language and distance, the people of Japan and Britain do not often loom large in each other's imaginations.
The fact that alleged FCPA violations loom large in the suit against H-P and Hurd exponentially underscores the risks and burdens facing corporate leaders.
If tuition payments loom large in your family's budget, study the financing techniques outlined by Ira Carnahan and Ashlea Ebeling, beginning on page 98.
Unsurprisingly given its heritage themes of loss and growth loom large in the plot of Ni No Kuni: a young teenager, Oliver, loses his mother unexpectedly.
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Getting people on board with a new vision is never easy, especially when some 20, 000 layoffs still loom (in addition to the 9, 000 the company announced in April).
Baked goods loom large in my pictorial history, as does the use and abuse of Dep Gel and even, dare I say it, an affinity for socks and sandals.
As the federal courts once again loom large in a presidential campaign, it is worth observing that this decision was written by Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, a Clinton appointee.
Community radio stations loom large in this flatter landscape.
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The debates and news -- starting with the release of a new unemployment report Friday morning, which could either point to an improving or a sagging economy -- are likely to loom large in the days ahead.
And if we look at the names that loom large in American history, Frederick Steuben, but many leading leaders of the German -- of the American business community, Guggenheim, Steinway, Strauss, Singer -- all of these German names.
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The Jardin du Luxembourg is no hidden gem, but the elegant park does loom large in the novel's main romantic narrative it's where Marius and Cosette meet, fall in love and rendezvous near the Rue de l'Ouest, now known as Rue d'Assas, in the park's southwest corner.
Thus alongside stars born in the 1990s, such as Bharti Airtel, a mobile-phone firm, older conglomerates such as Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla and Tata Sons still loom large in the Indian mind, their extraordinarily diverse output driven, eaten, worn and watched, their hereditary bosses as famous as film stars.
The Internet, Facebook and other weird forces loom too large in too many lives for any sage to ignore.
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