We respect the power of bond yields; we respect the power of liquidity.
But given its vivid power of hydrogen bonding, water proves less flighty and fickle, with a boiling point at sea level of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and a full 180 degrees lying between the tempest of a teapot and the tinkling of an ice cube at 32 degrees.
As they philosophize about love, marriage, passion and companionship, you sense the power of a bond formed over many decades.
A firm believer in the power of collaboration, Bond invited David Adjaye to join him and Freelon, to form a partnership FAB which ultimately won the commission.
But Mr Barroso and Mr Juncker and their promise of more European governance ultimately lack the persuasive power of the bond markets.
A large part of each award will be calculated by using estimates of a victim's lifetime earnings, and so differing assumptions will have to be made about the earning power of a bond trader and a dishwasher.
The power of the bond trader to influence governments once prompted James Carville, Mr. Clinton's political strategist at the time, to say that he wished to be reincarnated as one because "you can intimidate everybody".
They're heading to the home of a friend of Leo's, his ex-lover's place, and Crystal is wracked with jealousy; their relationship is both tender and violent, intense and troubled, and the crime story, with its deranging force, both emerges from the power of their bond and threatens to wrench them apart.
Dimon is right to point to the risk, but criminally wrong to neglect the banks' role in creating the recession, of which the US budget deficit is the consequence, and doubly wrong never to challenge the power of the bond markets and financiers.
Meanwhile, inflation will erode the purchasing power of the bonds' principal.
