There were reports of sudden sharp slowdowns in the sales of mainstay products like personal computers, automobiles, appliances and apparel.
[World Business, Section W.] Markets Drop on Consumer News The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 94.60 points at 8,824.41 after reports of a sharp drop in consumer confidence.
With current reports of a sharp rise in young doctors seeking help for mental health disorders, there is a need for an open and frank discussion about mental health in the medical profession.
Noting activists' reports of a sharp increase in attacks on the central city of Homs, Ms. Pillay issued a statement saying, "I am appalled by the Syrian government's willful assault on Homs and its use of artillery and other heavy weaponry in what appear to be indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas".
Perhaps 90s goth and grunge culture created a sheen of 'cool' around self-mutilation, but that doesn't seem to account for the most recent reports of a sharp rise in cases of self-harm among teenagers.
The American engine itself is hardly humming these days, as today's report of a sharp jump in unemployment indicates.
In the Treasury market yesterday, the announcement of the sale sent prices of longer-term notes and bonds lower after they rallied on the report of a sharp increase in initial jobless claims.
China Telecom added 6 Hong Kong cents (1 cent), or 1.9%, to 3.19 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents), following its reporting of a sharp drop in annual profits, which was expected, owing to a write-off relating to its wireless unit.
Another former agency official, Michael Brownlee, who had headed the office of defect investigations and was associate administrator for enforcement when he retired in 1997, said an agency review was warranted by the reports of flying debris, sharp edges and concerns about whether an air bag might properly deploy.
Simplicius reports that things composed of sharp and very fine atoms in similar positions are hot and fiery; those composed of atoms with the opposite character come to be cold and watery (in Phys. 36.3 6 = 67A14).
