"Their balance sheet can take a shock much better than Countrywide, " said CreditSights senior analyst David Hendler.
Finally, it might take a shock like pulling out of the World Cup to force England to deal with the thugs.
Until the Fed shows signs of retreat, it will take a serious shock from somewhere else to send U.S. stocks lower.
Workers displaced by the latter sort of shock take longer to find jobs, and may struggle to transfer skills and get the same level of pay.
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Paul Dales, an economist at the forecasting firm Capital Economics, said the job market appeared to have stabilized at a low level of growth, suggesting it would take a further shock to push the economy back into recession.
However, investors will draw little cheer from the fact that it would not take much of a shock, in its present weakened state, to knock the stockmarket off course again.
And, as PC World tests show, users may experience some IE5 culture shock if they take advantage of the customization features that tie the browser to particular Web portals.
Ms Harvey said that the following day, she went to hospital because her neck was stiff and sore and had to take several days off work due to shock.
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With inflation already likely to have peaked and with the ECB predicting a return to beneath the 2% target ceiling the policy adjustment process is becoming less of a factor, while one good shock is all it might take to unsaddle already fragile European confidence that could derail the euro once more.
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It should not take another collapsing bridge or failing levee to shock us into action.
This speculation drives prices even higher, until some shock (or the desire to take profits) causes the boom to implode.
After the first oil shock in 1973 it didn't take long for Americans to return to their gas-guzzling ways, with a preference for large cars and big V8 engines, says automotive analyst John Wolkonowicz, of consultant Global Insight in Lexington, Mass.
City shook off the shock resignation of boss Steve Coppell this week to take the lead when Damion Stewart headed home Jamie McAllister's cross.
If McConnell really tried to do something like he has described, his cuts probably would take place over several years, thus the one-year shock would be softened and 10-year interest costs would be somewhat lower.
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As her world travels take off, she's in for more and more culture shock.
"Certainly a lot of artists might be unfairly judged as a result of this, but I think that given the high level of shock and sadness that permeated the country, nobody is willing to take any chances, " McCabe said.
As shock registered on Blackwell's face, Marley asked the photographer to take a picture of them.
But Samoa could not take advantage as Tonga produced a series of big hits in defence to claim a shock victory.
But his career failed to take off in any meaningful way and looked to be over when he suffered a shock points loss to Belfast taxi driver Martin Rogan in December 2008.
For England to suffer a shock defeat, Italian prop Martin Castrogiovanni believes his team-mates have to take the attack to the hosts.
When countries on the gold standard suffered a shock they had to let the real economy, rather than their currencies, take the strain.
Wome stepped up to take the kick but his powerful shot hit the post, leaving thousands of Cameroonian fans in shock at the stadium.
Storrie had said on Sunday that the south-coast club would take their time in finding a new manager, but revealed that the "huge, huge shock" of Redknapp's departure to Tottenham made a quick appointment imperative.
And as the UK's debt problem will take longer to get under control, there will be a deterioration of the country's "shock-absorption capacity".
It is the surprise factor - the shock evinced by Mr Dimon - that will reignite the debate about whether regulators need to take more decisive action to curb the complexity of investment banks, to better prevent this kind of accident.
Even in this high-tech era of amazing medical tools--MRI scanners that can see deep inside the body, gamma-ray beams harnessed to zap tumors, implantable defibrillators that shock the heart to keep it pumping--surgeons still wield an old-fashioned blade to take life into their hands.
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