To his evident consternation, it merely brought in the current period of cohabitation with Lionel Jospin's Socialists.Too bad for Mr Chirac but not too bad for the voters, or for France.
As we can see from the red ink at state levels, which is prompting tax increases, bond rating downgrades, service cuts and consternation, expenses are too high for current and realistic future revenue levels.
In consternation, AT&T promptly declared that it had "no current plans" to sell AT&T Broadband, and that its restructuring plans would go ahead as planned (though it will give the bid "serious consideration").
It's entirely possible that the current bullish environment will continue and volatility will fall making all this consternation I'm hearing regarding rising $VIX and $OEX a moot point.
But to consternation on the left and mockery on the right, Valérie Trierweiler, Mr Hollande's current partner, this week tweeted a good luck message to Ms Royal's opponent, Olivier Falorni.
And so, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's current flirtation with expanding term limits to allow an additional four years is causing no shortage of consternation for Mr. Jones.
He applied currents to the nerves that supplied their legs and arms and discovered that they twitched wildly, causing great consternation to his audience.
Until the current downturn, the bumpiest patch came after 9/11, when travel collapsed and Four Seasons refused to cut room prices, to the consternation of some owners.
Recently, the composer Michael John LaChiusa Marie Christinene," "The Wild Party," "First Lady Suite") caused consternation on the Rialto by claiming in Opera News that the Broadway musical is dead, an unsupportable contention given current box-office tallies.
Brocade added further to investors' consternation last week when it revealed that its chief operating officer, Michael Byrd Michael Byrd, will step down at the end of the current quarter.
