In fact, western Europe's economic miracle ended a long time ago.
The 30-year postwar economic miracle ended — and with it full employment.
The bookies never even offered odds on the miracle ending – Rees is available at ridiculous odds and has a better chance than Honeyghan.
They knew that its legal systems were immature and its companies opaque, but, as in all bubbles, greed triumphed over caution.The "Asian miracle" ended in July 1997, abruptly turning into what is now known as the "Asian crisis".
Japan's economic miracle ended with the collapse of a phenomenal real-estate bubble and was worsened by a series of policy errors that led to a long period of stagnation.
Alongside lesser numbers of Italians, Yugoslavs and others, the Turks mined coal, forged steel and manned factories, transferring their earnings back to the home country they assumed they would return to.When the miracle ended, Germany tried to get rid of them.
Miracle ended up in the Modelo prison that night".
Now that I've gone to Cambridge, employers can conceptualise my disadvantage as some "girl dun good" story, but those without the miracle ending don't get to rebrand their shitty experiences in that way.
Somehow, I don't think George Lucas would be among the most successful filmmakers of all time if he crafted a tale of the popular, disciplined kid with the stable family and the perfect role model of a father who — miracle of all miracles — ended up following in the family tradition of becoming a talented warrior.
Instead of warning investors to go easy, bullish analysts came up with increasingly outlandish justifications for stratospheric stock prices: the death of inflation; the rise of the Internet; a productivity "miracle"; the end of the business cycle; the aging of the baby boomers.
