The misery wrought by the tempest in Europe's motor industry is indeed forcing carmakers to set aside rivalries and huddle together.
If the banks are indeed forced to spend tens of billions to buy back securities, they could turn once again to the federal government for help.
As for the reference to his mother-in-law and the dog, the Gore campaign was indeed forced to acknowledge that the anecdote was not gleaned from the candidate's own experience, but from a Congressional study.
The Christians were indeed forced to flee their homes, but rumors of the violence against them by terrorist groups or otherwise members of the opposition are both unverified and noxious.
Two months later Mr. Fujimori was indeed forced to step down, faxing his resignation from the safe distance of Tokyo, a mere shadow of the man who in facing down terrorist insurrections and political opponents had come to define the modern Latin American authoritarian.
Relatively few of them have a mandate to be contrarian: most (especially those passively tracking an index) want to enter or exit the same positions at the same time.All this may mean that asset managers are indeed forced to offload securities at fire-sale prices in times of turmoil.
Using the word "nothing" anywhere in the vicinity of Katrina defies both belief and decency, and Reid was indeed forced last week to apologize, his effort to shame his Republican foes having brought a full measure of shame to his own doorstep, yet again.
Likewise, it's hard to imagine that Wall Street existed before the advent of Bloomberg Terminals — but there was once a time when traders were indeed forced to price bonds with pencil and paper, and trade exclusively over the phone.
