It was the beginning of a period of sharp deregulation of the financial industry in general.
Mr. Harbert led the fund management unit through a period of sharp growth.
It was those samples that showed the most sustained period of sharp temperature shifts of all -- 120 years long.
Uprisings are most likely to occur, Davies said, when a prolonged period of economic and social progress is followed by a short period of sharp reversal.
However, it was not: in the mid-1920s – following a period of sharp and prolonged price deflation – hundreds of middenstandsbanken suffered depositor runs and were eventually wound up.
Ms. Sills and Mr. Gordon's prececessor, Nathan Leventhal, also went through a period of sharp differences during his 17-year tenure, but ironed them out.
Gun arrests by city police officers, long seen as a linchpin of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's crime reduction efforts, are on the rise again after a period of sharp decline following the shooting of Amadou Diallo, police statistics show.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Tudhope emphasized that there was no way to tell yet whether the recent period of sharp Pacific temperature swings was related to warming from rising levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
Autumn, usually a good time for job-seekers even in weak economies, was instead a period of sharp decline, as businesses closed, laid off workers or moved them to New Jersey.
Eight months before British Land and others were caught in the commercial property slump, he said: "I don't believe we are about to see a market decline, but the period of sharp growth is over".
