Less than two months ago, the recovery appeared to have suddenly stalled.
Once word spread and negative publicity followed, Abbe's marketing plan suddenly stalled.
Just the opposite happened in the US, where a recovery that looked on track in the first quarter of 2010, suddenly stalled in May and June.
A spate of surprisingly disappointing second-quarter earnings, coupled with news of rising inventories prompted analysts to question whether technology spending had suddenly stalled.
And then there is CNN.com, once the biggest online news site, a credible platform for the future of news, suddenly stalled and seemingly in inexplicable decline.
The perception of a badly run security system may be one reason why the growth in airline traffic, which appeared to be returning to normal in recent weeks, has suddenly stalled, even though desperate airlines are offering bargain-basement fares.
Hurd's thrust into SaaS with Oracle's pseudo-Cloud has suddenly stalled.
For the first time, the figures laid out before him in crystalline pixels of blue, red and black showed that hundreds of potential deals, ranging in value from a few thousand dollars to several million each, had suddenly stalled.
