For months, the American economy has been assailed by a wave of troubling news, from plunging housing prices to the soaring cost of oil, provoking gloomy talk of a possible recession.
Tuesday's stock sell-off is part of a wave of troubling economic and political news that appears to be striking this country at a time the government is preparing for the Olympic Games in Beijing and to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the start of China's market-friendly economic changes.
And, looking elsewhere in the table, it's probably just the beginning of a wave of new troubles for Russian soccer.
In the meantime the CDRPs had hit a new wave of troubles.
Increasing struggles by consumers and businesses to make payments on a variety of loans, not just mortgages, are setting off a new wave of trouble in the financial sector that is battering even institutions that had steered clear of the subprime-home-loan debacle.
The Japanese word in the Yinglish phrase tsunami of tsoris (a tidal wave of trouble) was taken up by several readers in the tsunami of '08.
A fax that arrived in Ms. Mendiola's office on Dec. 27, 1996, signaled a new wave of trouble for Scotch Plains officials.
But over the last decade or so, as the city has grown more prosperous and seemingly every square foot of Manhattan real estate is in high demand, a second wave of trouble has been washing over the district's fabled streets.
As the economy weakens and unemployment grows, the credit card industry could be seeing just the start of a growing wave of trouble.
A loss there, particularly if it is part of a sweep, is going to produce a wave of "Obama is in trouble" commentary that, justified or not, will hinder the president at the very moment he needs all the clout he can muster to get bills on health care and global warming through Congress.
Segregation has been a fact of life in Northern Ireland since long before the recent wave of Troubles began in 1969.
