First, it provides an excuse of sorts: with the governments in Britain's main export market bent on committing financial suicide several times over (see article), it is not surprising Britain has suffered.
"But do they maintain such a distinction even when confronted with creatures that defy our usual expectations," she said, "that present what seems to be a fuzzy boundary between animals and objects?" Professor Gelman agreed with Professor Turkle that the new digital dolls coming on the market bent the familiar boundaries between the animate and the inanimate.
Then again, the current transportation market — bent as it is on finally becoming profitable after sustaining years of losses, built on collectively billions of VC dollars, to grow — is consolidating rapidly, and many of the fiercest rivals have suddenly started combining as a result.
Mr. Atkins, widely considered the most conservative member of the S.E.C. in recent years with the strongest free-market bent, was appointed by President Bush in July 2002 at the height of a series of corporate accounting scandals.
One long-time reader E-mails me: "I read your view that bull markets bend over slowly, but it seems we are in uncharted territory.
And Mr. Deysher would sooner lag behind the market than bend the buying discipline of the fund.
"I envision a time when the credit market will bend to suit the needs of home buyers and homeowners, not the other way around," Franklin D. Raines, the former chief of Fannie Mae, wrote in 1998, adding that "we must embark on a new era for mortgage finance".
Other countries that subsidise farming less will ask the EU to throw away its entire price-fixing, market-bending and export-subsidising rulebook.
Silicon Valley is mounting an attack on the very philosophy behind social democracy – that market-bending rules and regulations can be set by governments and city councils.
The researchers sampled the newscasts in four markets (Bend, Ore . Houston Milwaukee and Pittsburghgh) and compared their findings with a similar study of three of the markets in 2005.
This can be seen with the time delays and resulting unnecessary patient suffering (and economic loss from ethically suspect device companies) with the first market withdrawal of the Protogen-Sling in 1999, bending to market pressures from the escalating complication rates.
