Now the atmosphere is heightened once again, because of two bombings in downtown Bombay that killed 52 people last Monday.
"Emotions ran a bit high," says King. John Harris, Macclesfield's chief executive, hopes they are heightened once again on Saturday, albeit in a slightly more sportsmanlike manner.
It is the sound of someone trying to retrieve the irretrievable: lost youth, lost innocence, lost love; and at the same time realising the impossibility of ever experiencing those heightened moments again.
The Prithvi issue could now be used as an excuse to abandon what restraints Pakistan still has on the production of fissile material.Meanwhile, further deployment of the Prithvis by India or of the M-11 look-alikes by Pakistan, both potentially able to carry nuclear warheads, would heighten tensions again and bring a new hair-trigger instability to any future crisis on the subcontinent.
They had few contacts with outsiders until 1994, when their expectation of the imminent transition was again heightened, and they began a new round of proselytization.
The governing council said: "At the start of the new year, downside risks increased again amid heightened uncertainty about emerging market economies' growth prospects, volatility in financial and commodity markets, and geopolitical risks.
The Fed, in a brief statement, said that it had lowered rates once again because "heightened uncertainty and concerns about a deterioration in business conditions both here and abroad are damping economic activity".
He told reporters: "As we start the new year, downside risks have increased again amid heightened uncertainty about emerging market economies' growth prospects, volatility in financial and commodity markets and geopolitical risks".
" 'O.K., watch for this.' " Pilots and crew members at Reagan National Airport in Washington said that after the confrontation Saturday on Flight 63 pressures and on-the-job stresses had once again been heightened.
