The state of Mississippi and Rick Perry's Texas, where city and state officials bent over backwards to lure Big Business with subsidies and other perks, are hardly bursting with good jobs.
It hardly seemed a burst of youthful vigor from a writer who, though highly esteemed within the profession, was largely unknown and considered more promising than accomplished.
That carnage hardly compares to the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, when $3 trillion was lost on the Nasdaq, but it is enough to give Internet investors and entrepreneurs pause.
Their prognostications are hardly infallible--the bursting of the Internet bubble proved that--but they may be the best long-term indicator available of the future vigor of particular parts of the science and technology economy.
Even if the frenzied investing in this small group of companies does turn out to be a bubble -- far from a sure thing -- its bursting would hardly be a catastrophic event for the market or economy, but just for a single, cratering minisector.
When Stephen Lee Nott, 32, tried the brand new hoverboard, he hardly expected the device to burst into flames seconds after he would step on it.
The tipsy clarinet had hardly been steadied by a burst of brass when a rushing piano part swept the music off to a realm somewhere between Rachmaninoff and ragtime.
It is hardly a secret that the bursting of the housing bubble and the Great Recession pummeled state finances.
I was a sixth-grade dyslexic; words were not my forte, they were my downfall, and I could hardly read a paragraph without bursting into frustrated tears.
Not only are all the best jokes in the trailer, most of them are better in the trailer; as always, Sacha Baron Cohen works best in short bursts, a problem hardly alleviated by the inclusion of an additional 15 minutes in the now obligatory extended cut.
