Eventually, rates heated up enough to pop a bubble that, in hindsight, looks ridiculously inflated.
Have stocks begun a two-year bull run, or is the recent pop a bear trap?
If the oil were to pop a new hole in the seafloor, we would see pressure plunge.
The point being that generally, a catalyst is needed to pop a bubble.
In order to pop a property bubble and damp inflation, the government has tightened credit, driving property prices down by something like 20%-30%.
In future, therefore, it may be possible to pop a pill or have a shot to keep you both free of heart disease and lithe of limb.
As we saw last week with the Davy Jones discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, a single successful well can pop a small stock 50% in a week.
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Nick Carter of UxC Consulting explained that hedge funds and investors, buying into physical uranium, managed to inflate and pop a bubble which decimated investor confidence for years.
Without the pop a Palin provides, in this case nearly 20%, the network chief would likely need to defend a total viewer decline far greater than 4% for the fall.
You know, you can sustain a note, you can pop a note, you can, you know, finesse a note, and it's very expressive like a human voice or a saxophone.
Ultimately the choice between cognitive behavioral therapy and drugs comes down to: Do you want to take extra time to talk to someone or pop a pill and put up with its side effects?
As a bonus tip for the advanced user, you can also open up PhotoShop or GiMP and overlay the original over the mosaic and alpha it out a bit to make the image pop a some more.
And I remain impressed that for less than the price of a cup of coffee, I can pop a plain envelope into a box and have confidence, more often than not, that it will be delivered halfway around the world.
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After signing a liability waiver, attendees are welcomed to pop a squat before resting their arms atop a cool, flat metal platform hidden beneath a curved sheath that looks like something you may expect to see in Dr. Frankenstein's lab, not a crowded corridor of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
In its two recent series, especially against Pakistan, England played a brand of cricket from the days before DRS. The batsmen were repeatedly pinned on their crease, playing back in an attempt not to thrust their pads forward and pop a catch to a nearby fielder, but instead getting trapped in front of the stumps.
It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
Twitter, which allowed for interactivity while being reliable and available, found an attentional sweet spot. 140 characters at a pop is a little bite-sized piece of information.
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His grandmother is known around the neighborhood as the Freeze Cup Lady for hustling Popsicles at 50 cents a pop as a way to keep Reggie and her three other grandchildren under her roof.
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But suddenly we heard a loud pop as a halyard--the line used to hoist the front sail--snapped.
The award, founded in 1989 by the late Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, has been handed out every year since 1992 and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.
It was a huge publicity pop for a new group seeking to make a splash in the worldwide Serbian community.
They want the opportunity to phone a shop, pop into a high street branch or make enquiries by e-mail rather than be restricted.
If you're leaving say, a pop concert in a car, the volume of traffic we can live with.
Fierstein says converting a pop composer into a Broadway one wasn't easy but Lauper was game.
Sweden's highest music honour is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.
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As I looked down Broadway at the last working traffic light in Manhattan on 27th Street, I heard a pop, then a collective gasp.
In those days promoting a pop star followed a well-worn groove.
What is the shelf life for an investment thesis or a pop song or a new show on TV when we act as culture shredders whose switches are always set in the On position?
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Barzelay has never been afraid to turn a pop song into a mission statement: For proof, check out Clem Snide's masterful "I Love the Unknown, " which Barzelay helpfully tacks on as a bonus track to Lose Big.
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