Stanwyck is lighting a cigarette; she halts, looks up, and murmurs through the cloud of smoke, "My mother died in '28".
Or just the local park?"The best thing about walking is that you are your own boss: start and halt, look at everything or nothing, think about a lot or a little.
He told his story in careful, halting English, looking occasionally to his son to provide the word he sought.
Here Ms. Mattila was the image of abject humiliation, singing with halting poignancy, looking like a stoop-shouldered, guilty child.
The growing gap between borrowing costs in Germany and those in other euro-zone countries suggests that investors now fear a break-up of the euro zone.As much as reform in Italy and elsewhere is needed, it seems unlikely that promises to be austere will halt what looks like a run from all euro-zone bonds but German ones.
The kneejerk response of Turkey's leaders to the country's latest terrorist atrocity – Sunday's suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 37 people and injured more than 100 – suggests that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's strongman president, and his neo-Islamist party are fresh out of ideas about how to halt what looks increasingly like a slide into chaos.
With the construction industry grinding to a halt, this year looks no better.
After the massive sell-off in world markets and the similar dumping of U.S. stock-market futures (the futures market was actually limit-down by 5 A.M., which means that selling was halted), it looked like U.S. stocks were going to be absolutely crushed at the open this morning.
By James Surowiecki October 24, 2008 After the massive sell-off in world markets and the similar dumping of U.S. stock-market futures (the futures market was actually limit-down by 5 A.M., which means that selling was halted), it looked like U.S. stocks were going to be absolutely crushed at the open this morning.
Obama will be looking to halt his rival's momentum with a better performance on Tuesday.
