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Stagflationary shocks led to global recession three times in the last 35 years: in 1973-1975, when oil prices spiked following the Yom Kippur War and OPEC embargo; in 1979-1980, following the Iranian Revolution; and in 1990-91, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

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So I have this distinction between what we're making people do and the subject that's sort of mainstream and the subject that, in a sense, people might follow with their own interest and perhaps even be spiked into doing that.

Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden's death, have spiked.

Bike volumes have spiked.

Males have a spiked, barbed penis that they literally stab into the female, and they don't stab it anywhere near her vagina.

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