What worried me after we ran to the dunes was when the Israelis eventually replied, because I thought the Egyptians will now learn they've been overshooting.
In 2000 this was one of Time magazine's top inventions of the year; by October 2001 the company was bankrupt, unable to find the capital to keep it going".The venture-capital industry has been prone to overshooting," says Mr Gompers.
It has been allowed to overshoot its target this year, on condition that it keeps its promise to get the deficit below 3% of GDP next year.
Sentiment is clearly volatile and, as Lee Hopley of the EEF pointed out, it is possible that an overshoot downwards has been followed by an overshoot upwards.
In its most recent central forecast, in November, it envisaged inflation staying above 3% for the rest of this year before tumbling to the 2% target at the start of 2012, when the VAT rise drops out of the inflation calculation.Confidence in that prediction has been undermined by repeated overshoots and the bank's forecasting lapses.
As a consequence, the VGE overshoot has been reduced.
On the other hand, when we apply homogenous addressing in SHAM, fluctuation has been reduced drastically with occasional overshoots.
Thirdly, a tendency to overshoot the target position has been found in patients with neck pain [ 32, 45, 71].
It has been shown that consideration of velocity overshoot is important for accurate prediction below 40 nm.
But the overshoot, to 2.6% in March, has been primarily driven by higher energy costs, reflecting the jump in world oil prices.
