If you asked most people in the financial markets that question they would point to two things: another blow-up in the eurozone crisis, and the lurking fear that US budget policies are heading over a "fiscal cliff".
Heck, even Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg eschewed the blow-out in favor of his backyard.
The potential costs to banks of a blow-up in the periphery may then be lower than they first appear.
Last year, despite plenty of talk about "tightening, " Chinese banks lent nearly RMB 8 trillion, almost double the level of any other year before their unprecedented RMB 10 trillion blow-out in 2009.
He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.
Grasso found himself giving a blow-by-blow account of developments in New York to his guests.
Even without an extra blow in Saxony-Anhalt, the Christian Democrats at national level are in a sorry state.
The beaches of north Cornwall were still open and the only signs of a shark around the north Cornwall seaside town were the blow-up kind in gift shop windows.
Essentially Ralph makes his case by citing the predominantly negative and skeptical tone of the commentariat, the blow-off top in treasury yields and the undeniably positive breadth between disparate stocks, sectors and even global markets (see: 11 Reasons Why Ralph Acampora is a Secular Bull ).
Glasgow were dealt a blow in the build-up when winger Thom Evans, who claimed three tries in the reverse fixture last week, pulled up with an ankle injury.
One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.
The death of long-serving official Jose Carlos Perez Fernandez in February was a blow to the club, and in May highly-regarded former Spain captain Fernando Hierro left his role as Malaga's sporting director.
That execution, in 1649, at Parliament's order, followed in 1688 by the ouster of the even stupider James II, was the death-blow of absolute monarchy in Britain.
Those efforts suffered a severe blow in 1998-2002, when the region suffered financial turmoil and economic stagnation.
He relates them with sympathy in blow-by-blow detail that is rarely boring.
With Bell looking at ease on his home ground, the fourth-wicket pair added 62 before South Africa struck the all-important blow in the 41st over.
Barring a knock-out blow in the St Louis debate next week, the contest will probably remain too close to call right up to November 7th.
But Fulham suffered a bigger blow in first-half injury time when Koncheskey was sent off for raising his hands to Fagan as they tussled on the flank.
In recommending against PSA tests for early signs of prostate cancer, the United States Preventive Services Task Force has struck another blow for a head-in-the-sand approach to early detection of fatal illnesses.
Since the April 20 explosions and fire, BP is carefully evaluating the subsea blow-out preventers used in all our drilling operations world-wide, including the testing and maintenance procedures of our drilling contractors using the devices.
The letter also provided new details about al-Awlaki's alleged involvement in a 2010 plot to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes with explosives hidden in printers.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
Leeds also lost Hall with a dead leg, while Bulls stand-off Ben Jeffries was helped off in the second half after taking a heavy blow to the head but, in an ill-tempered West Yorkshire derby, tensions again boiled over at the end when punches were traded between both sets of players.
In October 2010, al-Awlaki was involved with a new attempt by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft by inserting explosive devices in printer cartridges destined for the United States.
It seems, too, that the Arab world may be turning against the more extreme part of the insurgency the jihadists led by al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who blow up mosques around Baghdad and Palestinian wedding parties in Jordan (see article).
As a result, young people's outrage over what is happening in the Muslim world is creating a "blow-back" effect as they take violent action in the West, he said, as seen with the Boston bombings.
And about three other things, in a blow-your-mind kind of Ferran Adria way, were also insane.
We in the industry have long had great confidence in the blow-out preventer as the ultimate failsafe piece of safety equipment.
While there may yet be some long-term consequences of the CEO change, no one expects anything less than blow-out quarters from Apple in the foreseeable future.
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In fact, he allowed the White Sox just two hits his last time out, only to watch closer Greg Holland blow his 1-0 lead in the ninth inning of an eventual 2-1 loss.
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