Of course oil prices could always slump, puncturing the nascent domestic oil and gas boom.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ms. Rhee (a Democrat) has spent the past 18 months puncturing other education taboos.
One yearns for Rukeyser's urbane way of puncturing such unsubstantiated, pretentious pessimism.
Dr Dolores Moyano Ontiveros is accused of puncturing a patient's major vein in 2006 while operating unsupervised as a obstetrics and gynaecology consultant.
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There are rumors of rogue walruses that prey on seals, puncturing them with their tusks, then sucking out the fat with their powerful mouths.
The slowdown in America that followed the puncturing of the bubble was not a normal one, and nor is the recovery, heady though it is.
In both cases, the pigs are killed by puncturing their throats.
Puncturing the myth of frigid family relations, so often lazily repeated in television costume dramas, Mr Gay argues that the overriding tendency in bourgeois Victorian life was towards greater intimacy.
In theory, booms in elastic markets do not last for long because as new housing becomes available it puts pressure on prices, puncturing expectations of further appreciation and popping the bubble.
Even so, the worry is that a systemic regulator would be biased towards intervention, because it would face less criticism for puncturing a non-bubble than for failing to spot a real one.
The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings and fore-and-after bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship .
Six months later the image still sears Brown's mind, but he conjures up another one: an even more crippling new wave of attacks that might come next, puncturing the U.S.' technology underbelly and disabling the networks that keep nuclear missiles in their silos, the lights on in hospitals and automatic teller machines belching out cash.
Six months later the image still sears Brown's mind, but he conjures up another one: an even more crippling new wave of attacks that might come next, puncturing the nation's technology underbelly and disabling the networks that keep nuclear missiles in their silos, the lights on at hospitals, milk on store shelves and ATMs belching out cash.
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