Adding to the gloomy mood, European Central Bank governing council member Ewald Nowotny said he didn't see the euro-zone economy improving significantly in the near future.
Even if this was legally possible, which it isn't under current euro-zone rules, it was politically impossible: there is no appetite in some euro-zone countries, notably Germany, to create a transfer union, nor to bail out a country whose banking system is widely suspected to be a haven for money-laundering.
It's only when you're outside in the dark that you look back and see that the safety zone you always took for granted wasn't a safe zone at all -- just a temporary reprieve from disaster.
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And enshrining limits on borrowing and debt levels in national constitutions doesn't seem a bad way of restoring trust in the financial management of euro-zone governments, which don't have a great deal of credibility left.
European leaders haven't designed any pan-euro-zone rescue vehicles capable of absorbing the pain.
One obstacle is that Spain's euro-zone partners can't agree over whether the country needs more austerity (the German view) or less (the view of most of the rest).
Mr. Roseman was cautious about Mr. Corzine's bet on European bonds almost from the start, even though the CEO expressed confidence that euro-zone leaders wouldn't let the countries default.
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For one thing, a restructuring earlier this year delayed repayment on its private sector debt by at least a decade, and much of what it owes other euro-zone countries doesn't fall due for many years hence.
The words "no-fly zone" didn't even make it to the final communique.
If so, promising planets may have been sterilized by solar flares or frozen in the past, which wouldn't be reflected in present-day habitable-zone calculations.
The U.K. isn't a member of the 17-member euro zone and has been an attractive alternative for investors whenever worries about the currency bloc's finances flare up.
"The market isn't convinced that what we have seen in Cyprus won't have long-term effects on the euro zone, " said Tim Waterer, senior trader at CMC Markets in Sydney.
Additionally, there's a patent-pending Safe Zone feature that lets you create alarm-free locations so you don't accidentally set it off when at home or the office.
The director of education told us she regards the phrase as "misleading" - private industry shouldn't actually run the Action Zone, just come up with good ideas.
He ran on a free market health-care plan, but it wasn't a comfort zone.
If the clouds lift and the euro-zone crisis is somehow resolved (don't bet the house on this), then the European Central Bank will tighten monetary policy and add to borrowers' mortgage payments.
Euro-zone policy makers should consider whether they don't have enough problems on their plate without adding to them.
Syracuse will confront Indiana on Thursday with its 2-3 zone, typically tough for teams that aren't used to seeing that sort of system.
However, optimism for an ECB rate cut was tempered by signs that the ECB isn't prepared to take more aggressive steps to combat the impact of the euro-zone debt crisis, such as ramp up open-market purchases of European government bonds.
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"If you're a geek and you're getting into your work, spending a lot of time in the zone, you don't get hunger until it's too late--and at that point you're starving, " Klassen says.
All the pointing and pleading in the world from the energetic Williams couldn't help when the Golden Eagles finally hit the wall, otherwise known as Syracuse's 2-3 zone.
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