Even as the first shock waves of the subprime mortgage crisis hit Bear Stearns in June 2007, Citigroup's top executives expressed few concerns about their bank's exposure to mortgage-linked securities.
I wondered whether, as the first shock wore off, Bush and the government could find their way to placing paramount importance on, and establishing the primacy of — to quote from the Kaddish's last line — "harmony in the universe".
That concept alone qualifies Watt as the first shock-of-the-new modernist 140 years before the official birth of the movement that gave us sanitation, skyscrapers, super-Jumbos and our permanent oil crisis.
And the technocrats who run the main Latin American countries were in most cases quick to raise interest rates and tighten budgets as the first shock-waves from Asia hit last year.But Latin America is not going to get off lightly.
When the young Chinese known as the Red Guards, who constituted the first shock troops of Mao's enterprise, burst onto the scene in the summer of 1966 with their battle cry "To rebel is justified!" it seemed for a time that not only the power of the party cadres but also authority in all its forms was being questioned.
When considering a series of multiple shocks, the maximum spectrum index can be obtained from Eq. (13), applying the upstream flow of the first shock as (u_1) and the downstream flow of the last shock as (u_3).
The first shock comes as you enter the theatre.
His own sister, dying from cancer, is "now grey as a lizard, and yet after the first shock the effect is very beautiful".
Barely three weeks before Rushern L. Baker III was to be sworn in as Prince George's County executive, the first shock wave hit: The man he would succeed, Jack B. Johnson, and his wife, Leslie, were arrested on federal corruption charges.
Her hair was fluffy and pretty". His own sister, dying from cancer, is "now grey as a lizard, and yet after the first shock the effect is very beautiful". Beaton's visual gift is to recognize the grotesque not as distortion but as what individuates us, makes us true and perhaps even interesting.
Four hours after the first shocks, waves as high as 16 metres inundated the coast and carried one US gunboat two miles inland to rest precariously on the edge of a 60m cliff.
