And the way it does it, is it takes its tail and it swings it one way to yaw left, and it swings its other way to yaw right.

So each pygmy has its own behavior, psyche, mood swings, personalities and so on.

If I were in charge of the Internet, you could Mapquest your lover's mood swings.

We walked down to the local park, messed around on the swings, played some silly games.

In particular, the issuance and subsequent repayment of external debt can account for large swings in such liabilities.

It flips its body 180 degrees and it swings its leg between the two legs and catches the fall.

You feel intense elation when things are going well mood swings into horrible despair when things are going poorly.

Our proposal to reduce but not eliminate swings from parity recognizes that price fluctuations may be crucial for markets to ascertain the price of assets that promise an uncertain payoff. But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can impede real economic activity, which is why intervention is sometimes necessary.

October can see some intense temperature swings across the U.S. as the Arctic gets cooler, but the tropics remain quite warm.

History teaches that such swings are not sustainable, and that the more excessive they become, the sharper and more costly are the eventual reversals and the graver the consequences for the financial system and the economy. The lesson of this crisis is that excessive swings need to be dampened with a set of prudential measures.

That was a bit crude, at the time. And I made all these little apartments and little merry go rounds, seesaws and swings, little ladders.

The eurozone is now running even larger ones, with swings in southern Europe augmenting Germany s longstanding surpluses. Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.

As a stand alone entity, it was then vulnerable to market swings. A crisis sufficient to threaten the entire financial system was required to precipitate the inevitable conglomeratization.

The door swings open, and the voice says, Come in, for there is no room in this house for two I's, two capital I's, not these eyes for two egos.

Oil prices are especially volatile, as the large swings over the last five years remind us. The recent oil boom could easily turn to bust, especially if global economic activity slows.

Countries need to reformulate their energy policies including by boosting production and refining capacity, diversifying energy sources, and giving new impetus to conservation. A better balance between production and consumption would avoid large swings in oil prices.

One cannot think of any natural science in which orthodoxy swings between two poles. What gives economics the appearance of a science is that its propositions can be expressed mathematically by abstracting from many decisive characteristics of the real world.

Reserves are also clearly important for countries that produce only a few goods especially commodity producers and thus face big and unpredictable swings in world market prices. Dependency on coffee or cocoa exports requires a build up of precautionary reserves.

One cannot think of any natural science in which orthodoxy swings between two poles. What gives economics the appearance of a science is that its propositions can be expressed mathematically by abstracting from many decisive characteristics of the real world.

A search of old newspapers finds surprisingly few articles about the outlook for home prices. Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.

TOKYO In the last week or so, stock markets around the world have been hit by an upsurge in volatility, with large price swings confronting traders in New York, Tokyo, London, and beyond. And the entire global financial spasm has been largely blamed on a single culprit China.

Unfortunately, contemporary economic theory, with its presumption of perfect price discovery in asset markets, has discouraged economists and policymakers from paying any attention to the role of asset price swings in managing systemic risk. Today s global crisis shows that we can no longer afford to ignore this vital factor.

The connection between financial risk and asset price swings emerges from the use of a new approach Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) to understanding risk and fluctuations in asset markets. This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

In fact, most dollar commodity prices have fallen since the first half of the year. Though a host of sector specific factors affect the price of each commodity, the fact that the downswing is so broad as is often the case with big price swings suggests that macroeconomic factors are at work.

Indeed, my research with the Asian Development Bank s Xuehui Han has shown that when the US raises or lowers interest rates, most developing countries tend to follow suit, even when they have a flexible exchange rate. The key reason is that they want to avoid large swings in the value of their currency.

Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever. While movements in macroeconomic fundamentals may lead bulls to bid the value of a currency further above parity, they simultaneously become more concerned about a counter movement back to parity and thus capital losses which moderates their desire to increase their long positions.

IKE acknowledges that, within a reasonable range, the market does a far better (though not perfect) job in setting prices than regulators can. But it also recognizes that price swings can become excessive, in the sense that participants may bid asset prices far from levels that are consistent with their long term values.

It is clear from the last three decades of floating currencies that market determined exchange rates tend to swing widely and persistently from parity levels that would make comparable goods sell at comparable prices in different countries. So politicians like Sarkozy may have grounds to argue that central banks should intervene to limit such swings.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum. Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus the principle that detainees are entitled to challenge their detention in a court of law during the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese American citizens during the early days of World War II.

Now if you look at '96, Bill Clinton the last Democrat to actually win how he did in '96, you see real big differences in this part of the country right here, the kind of Appalachians, Ozarks, highlands region, as I call it 20 or 30 point swings from how Bill Clinton did in '96 to how Obama did in 2008.

Going forward the fact that Germany and the European Central Bank hold a different view of the problem confronting the global economy from the rest of the world is liable to cause wide swings in exchange rates and hinder the recovery. The ECB operates under asymmetric guidelines it is constitutionally obliged to be concerned only with maintaining price stability, not full employment

Despite wide and persistent swings in actual currency markets, their so called rational expectations models predict that exchange rates should not deviate from parity in any lasting way. Believing that they have found a way to model precisely how currency traders should think about the future, they see no need for intervention because, save for temporary deviations, markets always get currency values right.

Quantitative easing in the US cannot have been behind these large swings in global current account balances, because America s external deficit has not changed significantly in recent years. This is also what one would expect from economic theory in conditions approaching a liquidity trap, the impact of unconventional monetary policies on financial conditions and demand is likely to be modest.

The clinical implications of the failure to recognize bipolar disorder in depressed patients include the under prescription of mood stabilizing medications, and an increased risk of rapid cycling swings between manic and depressive phases. But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite phenomenon over diagnosis.

The clinical implications of the failure to recognize bipolar disorder in depressed patients include the under prescription of mood stabilizing medications, and an increased risk of rapid cycling  swings between manic and depressive phases. But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite phenomenon over diagnosis.

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.

Given the enormous size of daily volumes in currency markets, such attempts almost always fail, leading to currency crises. Instead, the limit the swings strategy proposed here implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should use their reserves to intervene at unpredictable moments in order to reinforce the effect of their regular announcements of the parity range on traders perception of increased risk of capital losses.