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And before I can change my mind, the door busts open.
The economy will continue to go through phases of booms and busts.
Still, when full-grown gorilla Buddy gets crazy during a thunderstorm, the cops are called--and everyone stares at Buddy through the window while he busts up the living room furniture.
A rough translation - "The delicate balance of right & wrong ( commonly seen on the busts of blind justice in the courts ) has powerlessness on one plate and prowess on another.
Clark Gable plays a con man who busts into the life of hard-boiled dame Jean Harlow.
Steve busts out of the hospital, leaving a trail of sticky pus and fallen off body parts behind.
In it, Chan plays a Hong Kong super-cop who busts a notorious crime lord and his gang, and is then assigned to protect the man's girlfriend (Brigitte Lin) so that she can turn state's evidence.
Once again, as in the earlier film two years before, we have babes in bikinis toting machine guns, killing people while saying 'poor little man' and smirking and simpering and wiggling their busts.
Here, the aforementioned ditzy blonde is cop Melanie Griffith, who we are introduced to in an early scene where a crime is committed, so she whips out her standard-issue and busts a cap in his ass.
Far from a great piece of cinematic chiller but worth it for it's sheer absurdity and a great scene in which a stunt woman tumbles down some steps and her head busts through all the rungs on the banister on the way down.
Irene Dunne really busts out of her more ordinary characters and shines in this film with humor, intelligence and, in the wonderful final scene, even sexiness!
Marin is tooling around some factory one day when INS busts in and rounds up the lot of them.
Jan Michael Vincent busts him, Rudy not having his id is thought to be an illegal and is promptly shipped off to Mexico.
It's like going to a hip hop show in Toronto, and it's a pleasure when the gila monster busts through the wall mid-number.
I have seen many ebbs and flows, booms and busts, and though I fully recognize that international capital markets have become more institutional in character and demonstrate greater resistance, I cannot believe that the present boom will not be followed by a bust until history proves me wrong.
Then a White House spokesman said that the bust was still on the premises, just in a different room, whereupon the story changed once more: there were apparently two busts of Churchill; one still in the White House, and one that Obama returned to the British embassy.
Reforms targeting labor policy, the investment climate, social insurance, competition, education, and infrastructure created a more inclusive and more sustainable growth model by spreading purchasing power, which supported aggregate demand and reduced vulnerability to investment-driven booms and busts.
With time, such data-driven improvements in credit allocation could even eliminate cyclical credit-driven booms and busts.
As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity, under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts.
But this approach suffers from a fatal fallacy: if booms are fueled by underestimation of risks, and regulation is made more sensitive to the estimation of risks, booms will be bigger and busts deeper.
And yet the biggest economic busts have happened when businesses were not uncertain enough – when they were sure that the future would be rosy.
The global economy has been driven in recent years by remarkable speculative asset booms and busts, which bring into the equation questions of confidence and trust, as well as fairness.
Similar stock market booms and busts have occurred in many other countries.
While they lasted, the booms that preceded these busts caused these economies to overheat.
The booms and busts have caused great redistributions of wealth.
The downside is that housing busts last equally long, because houses are such a durable good.
Since capitalism's beginnings, the market economy has been subject to fluctuations, to booms and busts.
From a broader historical perspective, stock markets always experience booms and busts.
Simply put, while all eurozone members can benefit during good times, some suffer far more than others during busts.
Structural BoomsWhy are there economic booms and busts, those long swings between expansion and slowdown?
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