This caused a noticeable (and duly noticed) one-off jump in the fraction of jobs defined as part-time (see chart).

ECONOMIST: No part-time job explosion

Analysts reckon rising social security costs will almost certainly force the government to raise Japan's consumption tax, currently 5%, leading to a one-off jump in consumer prices during the next decade.

ECONOMIST: Japanese inflation-linked bonds

The challenge from Phillips Idowu was a mighty tough one - he had to jump a world class distance to beat him, and he pulled it off.

BBC: Manchester's Super Sunday

The firm repeatedly leapt off one horse and on to another but the crucial jump came from the mid-1960s, when it was building up a business making the driveshafts that connect car engines to wheels.

ECONOMIST: GKN and aerospace