If your crush declines, do not freak out.
After three crushing days of declines, equity investors may be ready to just get to the weekend.
We blunder forth, acting with a blithe and often misplaced confidence that results in both our most audacious successes (the New Deal, the Great Society) and crushing failures (the decline of Detroit, Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war).
Like much of rural Japan, the village has fallen on hard times from a shrinking population, a crushing debt load and declining revenues from agriculture.
Higher unemployment, declining incomes, and crushing debt is not a new normal.
After he was introduced as Mitt Romney's running mate Saturday, Rep. Paul Ryan proclaimed: "I hear some people say that this is just 'the new normal.' High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal.
First, gasoline prices of $3.50 to $4 per gallon throughout much of the United States during the spring and summer of 2008 crushed the already-declining demand for sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks, and minivans.
But the total excess payments in some years ran to more than $100 million, a crushing expense for a city in steep decline.
The maximum crushing force you can exert in your grip naturally declines with age.
"If, as expected, the October employment report shows a sharp rise in unemployment and a sharp decline in job growth, it could be a crushing blow to confidence.
