Shares in Hewlett-Packard, an American technology firm, have also recovered since late 2012, when it took a decisive write-down over alleged accounting irregularities at a firm it had bought.Investors' memories are indeed short.
(It should be noted that Fry organized the first extensive exhibition of Post-Impressionist art in England, making it clear that curatorial courage can be critically decisive. Writing is clearly not the only means open to an art critic).
Mr. Babbitt's calligraphy strikes my eye as square, functional, decisive: the writing of an engineer rather than, say, a physician.
"He has a demeanor that exuded fairness, but was also very decisive and wrote brilliant decisions at a fairly rapid clip," said Martin Bienenstock, who worked as Enron's lead bankruptcy lawyer.
The percentage plans, which are in part a reaction to the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision, are at odds with the spirit of the decisive opinion written by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
"There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment," wrote the 17th-century cleric and memoirist Cardinal de Retz, "and the masterpiece of good ruling is to know and seize this moment".
"The trouble with all the eagle-eyed Mayology is its anglocentric premise: that the British side of the negotiations is the decisive variable," wrote the Financial Times commentator Janan Ganesh this week.
According to the Associated Press's Robert Burns, Mr Obama needs a "plan B" for defeating IS. "The rout in Ramadi revealed a weak Iraqi army, slow reconciliation and a bombing campaign that, while effective, is not decisive," he writes.
"In none of the contemporary reports from Indian agents, traders, and public officials on the aftermath of Tippecanoe can we find confirmation of the claim that Harrison had won a decisive victory", wrote historian Alfred Cave.
If the Assad regime begins to crumble, "the more Hezbollah -- and its backers in Tehran -- will view the Syrian crisis as an existential struggle designed to deal them a decisive blow," writes Arbour, of the International Crisis Group of independent analysts.
The leadership part was familiar: Outside Germany, at least, it is becoming conventional wisdom that Europe will survive only if the Union's behemoth provides more decisive leadership — and writes bigger checks.
