"They hit a big speed bump in the fall of 1998, when they were caught in the Asian crisis," Mr. Montgomery said.
In Britain, Margaret Thatcher's espousal of monetarism eventually brought inflation down with a bump in the early 1980s.But whatever its short-term usefulness for clamping down on inflation, monetarism proved an unreliable lodestar for steering the economy.
Conversely, the only bump in the winter ({varPsi }_{N}) curve is found in the American sector, where the northern vortex gets partially enclosed by the bended dip equator in that sector (Fig. 8).
The Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, avoided as many as 200 layoffs thanks to its $29.5 million bump in the 2008 supplemental, and lab spokesperson Judith Jackson declined to speculate on what might happen in March without additional funds.
The Oklahoma City address likely did remind voters of what they liked most about Clinton -- thus creating the temporary bump in the late spring of 1995 -- but the real engine of his rebound was the ongoing revival of the U.S. economy.
The post-Citizens United bump in the 2012 cycle for renewables is more like a hiccup -- increasing about 22percentt from $2.2 million in the 2010 cycle to $2.8 million in the 2012 cycle.
From the looks of it, this year is already poised to be one of the bloodiest on record, with a palpable bump in the summer months that we're witnessing right now.
Put slightly differently: apart from a relatively small bump in the late 1990s, the continued success of San Jose was already set well before the birth of Silicon Valley.
Still, the road to acceptance has had some bumps in the past month.
Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, a Cambridge, Mass., group that is critical of standardized testing, said the move to digital tests, long in the works, has hit some bumps in the last month, as many states turned to online tests to prepare for the Common Core State Standards requirement that students take such tests starting in 2014-15.
