We can do it painfully and quickly, as we did with the dot-coms, or we can be Japan and drag it out.
These services are also cheaper: American cable subscribers pay around $80 for a subscription a month (not including broadband); Netflix costs around $10. Netflix now has around 30m members in America, and 38m globally.Many predicted that Netflix would kill pay-television much like murders occur in popular cable dramas suddenly, painfully and quickly.
These past two years have taught many of us, in some cases quite painfully, how quickly the external circumstances of our lives can change dramatically and things can be taken away.
You can die painfully and quickly from jellyfish sharks or crocodiles and many more dangers.
The risk of addiction to Zweig is two-fold: he can strip his characters down to their naked, fragile, irrational selves – one finds oneself painfully close very quickly – and then he wraps the reader up in a dilemma.
You love harder, hurt more painfully, fall more rapidly, grow more quickly, and pull off the stupidest of the stupid with a flick of the wrist.
But with hundreds of new apps introduced every day in Apple's store, the field is overcrowded — something the Grimeses learned quickly and painfully.
And, in reducing interest rates, is the Fed pulling on a rubber band that could snap back quickly and painfully, sending those same rates soaring with disruptive consequences?
The players slipped back into their lockers, whispering answers to questions, being asked to explain a reality that had come quickly and painfully.
In 2005, Roubini's dark view was fairly vague — something bad was going to happen (either quickly and painfully, or slowly and not so bad) between then and 2025.
