Except that concert-ticket sales have taken a sudden dive, sending the company into crisis.
And for all its impressive growth, the stock market can be worryingly unstable, as a sudden dive of about 5 percent last week demonstrated.
Senior executives of the main South American unit, Parmalat Brasil, said they were "flabbergasted" and "overwhelmed" by assertions that it had helped propel Parmalat's sudden dive into insolvency.
Julia Coronado, senior United States economist at BNP Paribas, said the revised figures suggested economic renewal would not follow the "V -shaped model of recoV -shapedat is, an energetic rebound after a sudden dive.
Leading off first base in a game against the Mets at Shea Stadium, he made a sudden dive back toward the base after an infield line drive was caught, but collapsed when his right knee buckled.
Still, Mr. Clinton best expressed the sudden dive in Middle East fortunes and the difficulties in restoring them when he told the news conference today, "We should have no illusions about the difficulties ahead".
Bokaer deftly wove in surprises — Chang's vigorous, martial, straight-ahead travelling phrase on the diagonal, Procopio's sudden dive onto Adler-Arieli's legs after a lulling promenade around the perimeter, followed by a confrontational, desperate duet, rich with Pietà images — but the drama seemed mostly to derive from the light bulbs.
She learned that stray emissions from powerful antennas on the ground or in military planes in the air can disconnect a plane's autopilot, jam equipment, cause electrical short circuits, put a plane into a sudden dive, interrupt fuel flow -- or even trigger on-board explosions.
As Bigfoot hones its electronic marketing expertise, the company's sudden dive into the completely unrelated world of Internet browsers is tough to figure.
The abnormal segments in a curve, like sudden jumps, dives, peaks, or valleys, reflect the value change and therefore present us with a hint that something worthwhile is waiting to be investigated further.
