The story concluded abruptly.

Then other things happened even more abruptly.

The plaintiff, Guns N'Roses, abruptly concluded a concert promising to ensure partial reimbursement of the ticket price.

Perhaps the end will come in a different way, but it is difficult to imagine the age of US exceptionalism lasting indefinitely. Can the end come abruptly in 2006?

Banks magnify the boom by making credit too easily available, and they exacerbate the bust by withdrawing it too abruptly. But the legacy is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.

This Act abruptly halted Cuban imports from United States subsidiaries in third countries, totalling US 718 million in 1991 91 per cent of these imports were food and medicine from third countries.

But that announcement came as a surprise (as did the devaluation of China s renminbi this past summer). Capital that had flooded into emerging markets seeking yields no longer available in developed economies abruptly reversed course.

WASHINGTON, DC Banks and banking rely on trust. But while trust takes years to establish, it can be squandered abruptly if a particular bank s ethics are weak, its values poor, and its behavior simply wrong.

(e) To facilitate the formulation and implementation of medium term programmes, aid should be provided on a pre committed, multi year basis which ensures that projects and programmes once started are not abruptly left dry of funds.

PARIS Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, governments in advanced countries have been under significant pressure. In many countries, tax receipts abruptly collapsed when the economy contracted, income dwindled, and real estate transactions came to a halt.

Despite lack of details, the obvious progress mentioned above is enough to prompt the Mexican and American governments to abruptly stop publishing the text of the two party trade agreement and give Canada more time to join the agreement.

Indeed, intolerance goes right to the top of the Turkish government. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.

When the opposition tried to challenge these inconsistencies, the ECK abruptly declared Kibaki the winner. Days later, the ECK s head publicly acknowledged that Kibaki supporters had pressured him to announce the results immediately, despite the clear evidence of vote rigging.

No parents grieve for a lost embryo in the way that they would grieve over the death of a child. No embryos are capable of suffering, or have hopes or desires for the future that are abruptly cut off by their death.

Surprisingly, Kan, who entered politics to dismantle the old system, now has switched to the mandarins side. The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer s upper house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax.

Slowing the growth of the pension and health care programs for middle class retirees cannot be done abruptly. It must begin by giving notice to those who are now a decade away from retirement which is why it is important to launch such reforms now.

The cheap credit ushered in by the euro fed an inflationary economic bubble in southern Europe that burst when the financial crisis hit. Credit terms worsened abruptly, and what was left was the thoroughly overpriced rump of economies that had become excessively dependent on foreign financing.

Of course, the foolish people will say, What has turned them abruptly away from the giblah towards which they formerly used to turn their faces in prayer? Tell them, O Messenger, 'East and West all belong to Allah He shows the Right Way to anyone He wills.

Of course, the foolish people will say, What has turned them abruptly away from the giblah towards which they formerly used to turn their faces in prayer? Tell them, O Messenger, 'East and West all belong to Allah He shows the Right Way to anyone He wills.

The forth pressure is surprise, the notion and the evidence that we need to abandon our old paradigm, that ecosystems behave linearly, predictably, controllably in our so to say linear systems, and that in fact, surprise is universal, as systems tip over very rapidly, abruptly and often irreversibly.

This endless search for the true locus of responsibility (both causal and remedial) is not restricted to the realm of climate change. In a globalized world, for example, citizens of nation states might wonder (as many have) why a financial crisis a hemisphere away causes their countries banks to collapse abruptly.

Things began to unravel when two cabinet ministers abruptly resigned, citing family commitments or policy disagreements. Then came the inconclusive war in Gaza, which, given Netanyahu s unfulfilled pledge to crush Hamas, undermined his credibility, especially when ministers like Naftali Bennett, the leader of the nationalist religious Jewish Home party, openly challenged his policies.

To be sure, back in the 1970 s, confidence in the credit of the British government collapsed, forcing it to borrow from the IMF so that spending could be cut and taxes raised gradually rather than abruptly. But that is why Keynes and Harry Dexter White established the IMF in the first place.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories. Orders dropped abruptly well out of proportion to the decline in GDP and those countries that depended on investment goods and durables (expenditures that could be postponed) were particularly hard hit.

There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX. Capital flow bonanzas, often spurred by low US interest rates and calm global financial markets, end abruptly when these conditions reverse.

The regulators are focusing on an important feature of derivatives contracts that allows the derivatives industry to close out their dealings abruptly with a financially distressed entity, thereby making the institution incapable of recovering. Other creditors typically cannot do that in a US bankruptcy, for example, they must first wait for a court to decide whether the debtor company can be restructured.

The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer s upper house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax. That increase would enable Treasury mandarins to maintain their latitude in setting fiscal policy, while making it unnecessary to streamline special account budget financing for gargantuan public corporations, into which retiring bureaucrats parachute for lucrative jobs.

ISLAMABAD Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari abruptly returned to Karachi on the morning of December 19, following a 13 day absence for medical treatment in Dubai, where he lived while in exile. The government issued no a formal statement about Zadari s health, but his supporters disclosed that he had suffered a mild stroke, which left him unconscious for several minutes.

NEW YORK Recent market volatility in emerging and developed economies alike is showing once again how badly ratings agencies and investors can err in assessing countries economic and financial vulnerabilities. Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.

And yet, blaming the creditors for their punitive conditions, as Greek negotiators have done, would also be a mistake, for this simplistic narrative too obscures a complicated truth. Right before the talks were abruptly cut off for Greece to hold its referendum, the two sides had agreed on fiscal targets for Greece all that was left was to determine how the targets should be reached.

Finally, imagine the effect of all of this on Greece s financial, fiscal, and social security ecosystem With bank shares skyrocketing, our state s losses from their recapitalization would be extinguished as its equity in them appreciates. Meanwhile, the development bank s dividends would be channeled into the long suffering pension funds, which were abruptly de capitalized in 2012 (owing to the haircut on their holdings of Greek government bonds).

The education ministry abruptly withdrew German as an optional third language in government schools, and replaced it with Sanskrit. And the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organization modeled on the fascist groups of the 1920s complete with khaki shorts and staves declared a campaign of Ghar wapasi ( return home ), or reconversion of minorities to the Hinduism from which their ancestors had allegedly lapsed in the distant past.

That question, often raised in the past, has been heating up in the aftermath of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s emotional outburst during the recent World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos, when he abruptly left a panel he was sharing with Israeli President Shimon Peres. And the Turkish question matters greatly, because it touches on some of the most unstable and unsettling of the world s diplomatic disputes.