I pondered for hours before falling into a fitful sleep.
It appears that the stimulus spending that's helped sustain the fitful economic recovery over the past couple of quarters is running out just as new economic anxieties are threatening to plunge us into the second scoop of a double-dip recession.
ReprintsAs a result, the government is making fitful progress on its most urgent task: restoring order.
Macroeconomic stability, coupled with microeconomic measures such as tax incentives and a stronger competition regime, was to sort out the familiar British complaints of low productivity, low business investment in research and development (R&D) and fitful innovation.
In spite of several fitful attempts to engineer a similar compact on this side of the Channel, the idea never really caught on.
In a speech in Washington in June 2006, Lord Malloch Brown complained about America's "fitful" engagement with the UN and the distorted image it had in "Middle America" thanks to conservative detractors such as Rush Limbaugh, a television talk-show host, and Fox News.
Progress, though fitful, will be made on fiscal, financial and structural reforms.
In recent months Argentina has squandered a big chunk of its foreign-exchange reserves in a doomed defence of the peso, which eventually fell by about 20%, despite the government's fitful efforts to curtail capital outflows.
In the face of high wages, inflexible labour laws and declining competitiveness, the German government's efforts at reform were fitful and half-hearted.
That is the response of some Western observers to the advances made by the Ukrainian army in its fitful war with Russian-backed separatists.
Just as Muslims are free to worship in Jerusalem, so Jews should be free to worship at their holy places in Hebron.JOHN MARSHALLChairman, The Anglo-Israel Association LondonWake-up LondonWake-upome your suggestion that Napoleon's "When callSIRakes" clIché be retired ("China's fitful sleep", July 19th).
