This damp match won't light.

Clean the window with a damp cloth.

The weather was not only cold, it was also damp.

Its unique cool flow valve can efficiently discharge hot and damp exhaled breath from inside the respirator, allowing easier breathing for users.

And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

The idea is to try to provide some measure of physical comfort while you're down there, otherwise in damp, moist, cold conditions in utterly dark places.

The scientific name for the money tree is Malabar Chestnut , a tropical plant native to Mexico. It performs best in warm and damp conditions, and its flowers will only bloom under appropriate conditions such as sunlight, water and nutriments.

Remember, this tradition comes to us not from the mists of Avalon, back in time, but further still, before we were scratching out these stories on papyrus, or we were doing the pictographs on walls in moist, damp caves.

If they remove the stimulus too soon by raising taxes, cutting spending, and mopping up the excess liquidity, the economy may fall back into recession and deflation. But if monetized fiscal deficits are allowed to run, the increase in long term yields will put a chokehold on growth.

And yet, when some psychologists interviewed hospital janitors to get a sense of what they thought their jobs were like, they encountered Mike, who told them about how he stopped mopping the floor because Mr. Jones was out of his bed getting a little exercise, trying to build up his strength, walking slowly up and down the hall.

The risk today is not imminent crisis, but rather that the capital flows arising from the global boom will not be well managed, leading to the buildup of vulnerabilities. So the danger is that, when the party ends and it is hard to know when that will be a lot of mopping up will need to be done.

One possible measure is to announce guidance ranges for asset prices, with targeted variations of margin and capital requirements, not to eliminate, but to help damp down movements outside these ranges. The key feature of these measures is that they are applied differently depending on whether an asset is over or undervalued relative to the guidance range.