FOREIGN-EXCHANGE traders, once the pride of the City of London, were knocked off their pedestals when machines began replacing them a decade ago.
AMERICA'S chief executives continue to fall from their pedestals.
The underlying propositions are probably true.It is inconvenient, then, that the results tend to fall off their pedestals when prodded or poked a little.
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BlackBerry will soon be joining the swelling ranks of well-known phone makers such as Motorola Mobility (now part of Google) and Nokia (whose devices and services business was recently swallowed by Microsoft) that have fallen from their pedestals and sought the help of others to revive their fortunes.
Cambodian and Thai soldiers, acting for well-organised rings, have hacked at much of it leaving pedestals empty, walls with holes and, in some cases, headless and armless torsos.Unfortunately, as a star statue in Berlin shows, possessions of the National Museum in Phnom Penh were not always safe, either.
Though they put his face on the dollar and his bust on countless pedestals, Americans seem to have forgotten this fact.
The pedestals are still unclaimed.
Thus, the golden bulls may have been meant to serve as pedestals for the invisible Yahweh just as the ark (throne) may have been the seat of the invisible Yahweh in the Holy of Holies (inner sanctuary) of the Temple in Jerusalem.
