In such circumstances, all it would take to open the way to demagogues and other sorts of political faith-healer would be a fresh economic crisis, one harsh enough to make voters fear that treacle was turning into quicksand.
The earnings miss is a harsh one, considering the increased business Expedia saw on its top line.
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) saw one of the more harsh reversals yesterday.
At one point in the proceedings, the harsh portrayal of Jackson's struggle with addiction led one juror to lean forward and stare at the floor for several moments.
It tailors audio according to a set of headphones' acoustic quirks, smoothing out harsh frequencies that one model might accentuate, boosting weak bass for another.
She wanted to describe how he felt about the long absence of Harsh, the only one of his five children to leave India.
Liberal journalists rendered similarly harsh judgments, although one wonders why they bothered, given that the professional scholars seemed quite capable of publishing their own truculent first drafts of history.
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One by one, industry incumbents are withering under the harsh light of data.
One thousand lumens from a CFL is visually harsh and makes food (and people) look ugly, compared with the same 1, 000 from Edison's incandescence.
One investor accosted an FDA panel member with harsh words in a hallway minutes after the Sept. 16 vote, according to people who were there.
If there is a one percent chance of getting caught, are even harsh penalties a real deterrent?
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Was it a remnant of the frontier days, when the harsh environment forced settlers to look out for one another?
As one of Ms Royal's campaign advisers he was a harsh critic of Mr Sarkozy.
And in one of those cases the terms seem to be really quite harsh on Samsung.
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On one occasion, I visited the front lines in the savagely harsh Salang Pass through the Hindu Kush Mountains.
After a few months and a harsh (but much-needed) conversation with one of our seed investors, I stopped doing everything else until we nailed our product and validated our assumptions with small cohorts of customers.
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If their party endorsed it, liberals supported even a harsh welfare program, and conservatives supported even a lavish one.
This is the harsh reality of actively-managed fund results, and one more reason to own a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds and ETFs.
If Mr Morsi can apply this harsh medicine while keeping the streets calm, he will have pulled one trick that neither Mr Mubarak nor the generals who succeeded him ever attempted.
One of my partners has told me that putting it that way is kind of harsh.
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The Samsung Wave is also one of the most attractive devices with seamless, streamlined body that has no parting or harsh lines.
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Loach has long been considered one of the leading lights of the UK film industry, building a strong reputation for harsh, gritty films that do not shy from showing the harsher sides of reality.
On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.
So Kerry has to tackle one of the underlying concerns about Democrats in the public eye: Are they willing to be harsh -- ruthless if necessary -- to keep America safe, or are they too concerned about what other nations think?
This harsh, cold-turkey, approach to our fiscal deficit has the advantage of forcing the issue one way or another.
One is up in the high Meseta of central Spain, at 1, 000m or more, with a very harsh climate and the other is in the mountains of Granada - again in a very harsh environment.
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