Pursued from East Anglia by the usual creditors and angry husbands, Lovejoy descends on London with a private commission to find out who is flooding the trade with bogus gemstones, a quest that takes him from trendy galleries on Chelsea's King's Road to the jumbled stalls of outdoor markets in Bermondsey, Camden Passage and Portobello Road.
The danger that the utility could be flooded with more trades than it is able to handle is something regulators are acutely aware of.Equally pressing is the need to bring more transactions into its orbit.
Eastern Europeans (few of them trafficked, despite the horror stories) have flooded into the sex trade.
The 1993 explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center flooded the hospital with patients.
Defectors and North Koreans working illicitly abroad say a large-scale drug trade has flooded north-east China with cheap narcotics, to the anger of Beijing.
Labour was inexpensive, as rural migrants flooded into the cities, trade unions were weak and politically divided until the late 1960s, regulatory agencies were even weaker, and taxes were low and easily avoidable.
But a year after the destruction of the trade center flooded their living rooms and bedrooms with ash and debris, the residents of 125 Cedar Street -- part of a small fraternity of people still displaced by the attacks -- are still living 9/11 every day as they wait to move back in.
An automated stock trading program suddenly flooded the market with millions of trades Wednesday morning, spreading turmoil across Wall Street and drawing renewed attention to the fragility and instability of the nation's stock markets.
DealBook » Flood of Errant Trades Is a Black Eye for Wall Street | An automated stock trading program suddenly flooded the market with millions of trades on Wednesday, spreading turmoil across Wall Street and drawing renewed attention to the fragility and instability of the nation's stock markets.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which runs the Fed's trading operations, flooded the banking system with additional billions by buying up Treasury securities at record volumes throughout the week.
