Now, the anxiety amongst the electorate is erupting with gold trading above $1,400.
In November of last year I penned an op-ed calling on the president to appoint a modern-day equivalent of the Kerner Commission, a national panel to investigate the breadth and depth of the undercurrent of anger and mistrust in the poorer and mostly black communities that is erupting with greater frequency.
What started as a seeping, slow eruption, with lava moving slowly over the Big Island, has more recently been erupting with force, sending chunks of molten rock flying into the air.
Some decisive juncture had been passed, and people were erupting with accusations.
The traders were erupting with fear in some cases, and with greed as they went short in other cases.
Now that threat has receded, pent-up frustrations in this country of 30.8m, a former French colony, are erupting with a forcefulness that has rocked the regime.
One minute his HD digital creations seduce with footage of forests, fruit or beaches, the next they're erupting with clips from zombie movies or strobing green screen while empty subtitle boxes that resemble ticker-tape strips randomly spring up.
At a time when Martha Stewart is confronting the likelihood of donning prison orange, when Enron executives are still doing the perp walk and new Wall Street scandals are erupting with regularity, President Bush is working hard to cast himself as the leader of the charge to protect employees and investors from corporate malfeasance.
There was a short period, at the start of the 1960s, when his new work drew a lot of attention, at a time when British art was erupting with new energies and optimism: St Ives going strong, plus situation painting, pop art, op art.
All day, the Internet has been erupting with news that the age of notebook and netbooks is over, and the age of tablets — specifically, the iPad, of course — has begun.
