Because commodity prices are determined in competitive markets which need to clear at any point in time, they tend to fluctuate much more over short periods than the "sticky" prices and wages which exist in developed economies.
"It is sufficiently clear at this point in time that the government of Nigeria has no intentions of considering the demands made by this group for the control of the resources and land of the Niger Delta," it said.
It is very clear at this point in time that we are not on strike and that we have not announced that we are going on strike … We feel we are able to reach a solution in this dispute and we are determined to do so".
The EU foreign minister Lady Ashton's spokesman Michael Mann also responded cautiously, saying: We are still monitoring this along with our international partners to see what has really happened because it doesn't seem entirely clear at this point in time.
We were like, 'Oh, wait a minute.' That could've really changed, obviously, the advice to the governor, because I don't think he would've even said we're not going to do it if it was clear at that point in time, all the way back four, five years ago, that if you don't do this, here's the side effect.
It is not clear, at this point in time, if these changes can be sustained for greater periods.
"When you look at the troop-to-task ratio and the missions that have been assigned to this command, it is clear to me that at this point in time, given the missions and given the tasks, it is not a function of additional soldiers".
Now, let me be clear about something; up until that point in time, my experiences with boys had been limited to chasing them on the schoolyard (having no idea what to do if ever I caught one) and squealing when New Kids on The Block appeared on-screen.
Much of it was stuff that inequality mavens already know, but he had one striking result that was what I suspected but hadn't seen demonstrated: a clear negative relationship between inequality at a point in time and intergenerational social mobility.
At this point in time it was clear which companies had been selected to participate in the national fair and the final competition.
