For if a new wrapping machine did not operate as efficiently as anticipated, or if a slogan failed to capture the imagination of shoppers, there would be no escape from shuttered houses and despair in the suburbs of nearby Verviers.
As charming as Peter is, Hook will bethe meat ofthe series, made so by Mr. Ifans's ability to convey all the passion, despair and horror of which a man may be capable.
As for the sentiment that it is not merely the international capital market but the basic principles of capitalist economics that need to be questioned, one can only despair that the thought has even surfaced.
Europe's leaders will be watching anxiously in case Italy sends a powerful message to the rest ofthe continent of anger and despair over recession, corruption and the high price being paid to save the single currency.