The truth is that Israel has historically got away with brutal campaigns in Gaza, but now, with public opinion turning, that deal is off.
Fred Anderson, Apple's chief financial officer, said Apple did not receive a spike in holiday-related sales that it historically gets during November.
"Since bondholders have historically got a 2 percent real return on government bonds and are getting virtually none now, that's equivalent to giving them a 2 percent haircut a year, and it will go on for a long time," he said.
Certain occupations seemed to breed malignancy; chimney sweeps historically got cancer of the scrotum, dye manufacturers bladder cancer and wartime shipyard workers handling asbestos died from aggressive tumours of the membrane lining the chest.
"I don't know if it's just kind of a gut thing, but Republicans have always historically got more credit for running the economy, and being good for the economy, even at the height of the deficit.
Jim Josefson, an assistant professor of political science at Syracuse University, noted, "Democrats have historically gotten killed upstate," but added, "Giuliani is so associated with New York City that it is really possible to me that that could be dampened this time around".
The 20percentt limit to the amount of additional development that the market-rate builder can add coincides with the 20percentt bonus that Manhattan builders have historically gotten for setting their buildings behind open plazas, once deemed a desirable public benefit.
(Why? Incumbents have historically gotten a lot of credit from voters. And voters have historically had short economic memories. If a case can be made that the economy is improving, the incumbent's odds are decent, even if it is clearly not firing on all cylinders).
Tasmania, 150 miles off the south coast of Australia and roughly the size of West Virginia, has historically gotten as bad a rap from mainlanders as West Virginia does in the United States: for years it was considered a hillbilly backwater, not worth the 12-hour ferry crossing of the Bass Strait required to reach the island.
"Because Labour has historically got less support in the south, even in the good years, a bit of a myth has developed that southerners are more selfish, less bothered about their neighbours, more relaxed about excessive bankers' bonuses, less concerned about decent public services".
