Among the alleged crimes of twentysomethings these days is hiding out in school (or in various far-flung places, like Iceland), thus deferring adult life, or being fickle in the job market once they get there.
The bankers, it was said, would take a longer view and be more understanding of downturns than the fickle stock- or debt-markets sought out by firms elsewhere.
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While its media properties are red-hot, this Manhattan company is still struggling to profit from a hodgepodge of 50 ventures it has created or acquired to reach this fickle market.
Jim Messina, the campaign manager, is determined to contest as many states as possible, to avoid the trap he believes past Democratic campaigns fell into of pinning all their hopes on just one or two fiercely contested and fickle swing states.
Mahathir has always argued that Asia's economic troubles were caused by fickle international investors (or, as he called them recently, "funnymentals, intelligent humans behaving like silly animals in a herd"), not a lack of financial transparency and accountability and certainly not because of a lack of democracy.
But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.
These seem to have become sharper since the crisis, given that firms without large deposit bases or big parent companies were shown to be more vulnerable to fickle borrowing markets.
Having banks inside the stores should help them attract business, in areas such as current accounts, where consumers have traditionally been less fickle than they are with savings accounts, insurance or credit cards.
Not only did the bank make a lot of risky home loans to people who couldn't document their income and now can't pay, but Indymac also had a fairly fickle base of depositors, since it offered few branches or other services to build loyalty.
Equally important, traders are fickle and their sentiment can change faster than you can hit the buy or sell button.
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As I write, the notoriously secretive company has not even confirmed that an event is taking place - but it has to put a new device out soon or sales will surely slow to a trickle because the current models will look very last year to fickle phone buyers.
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