This time, however, a sharp change in policy seems unlikely.
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It marks a sharp change in sentiment compared with reactions to previous disasters that prompted residents to open their wallets, such as a devastating earthquake that struck the Sichuan region in 2008, killing 90, 000 people.
For example, such an exercise might suggest that a sharp change in asset prices would not only affect the value of a particular firm's holdings but also impair liquidity in key markets, with adverse consequences for the ability of the firm to adjust its risk positions or obtain funding.
Mr Zapatero knows, too, that a successful terrorist attack can provoke a sharp change of mood in the electorate.
Brian LaRose, technical analyst at United-ICAP, noted several levels of support gold prices need to hold to avoid seeing a sharp break or change in trend.
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That may change, in the event of a sharp downturn in the global economy.
Facing Argentina's second sharp recession in four years, they want a change.
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The change in the investigating officer is a sharp twist to the state's case against Mr. Pistorius over the alleged premeditated murder of his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model and reality TV star shot and killed in a bathroom at Mr. Pistorius's home on Feb. 14.
But there has been so little volatility in share prices in the past two years that any sharp change is unsettling.
The sharp focus on change allowed me to pick up on the secular shift in search and not recommend buying Google to our subscribers.
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The result was a sharp rise in bankruptcies (and credit-card defaults) before the change came into effect, and an ever sharper fall thereafter.
Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois who won last week's Iowa caucuses, led the New York senator and former first lady 39 percent to 29 percent in a poll conducted Saturday and Sunday -- a sharp change from a poll out Saturday that showed the Democratic front-runners tied at 33 percent.
Everyone called him Mike until some way into his studies at the LSE when, in a sudden change of style, he swapped his grey suit for sharp beatnik attire and insisted on being called the rather more working class-sounding "Mick".
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So, what did change, starting around 1960, to account for the decline in marriage rates, the sharp increase in divorce, and the explosion of out-of-wedlock births?
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After years of virtuous pleading for more decisions by majority vote in Euro-councils, the chancellor shocked his partners by what seemed like a sharp change of tack.
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