The usual suspects contributed to this year's ignominy: a low percentage of singles, an anemic job growth rate despite mammoth firms like Alcoa, PNC Financial Services, HJ Heinz, Mellon Financial and United States Steel –a poor showing in our reader poll, and, well, lack of cool.
G4S is on a six-strong shortlist bidding to take over a wide range of policing services, including detaining suspects, contributing to investigations and managing high-risk offenders.
Instead, they interview an expert on historical tricksters and another on clowns, and raise the question of whether these earlier killer clowns influenced either the legend itself, or John Wayne Gacy, the real-life killer they suspect contributed to modern legends.
Subtle social connections with agreeable-looking pharmaceutical representatives do influence physician behavior, and, I suspect, contribute to physicians' reluctance to face the conflict of interest inherent in receipt of samples.
Then, there's the ubiquitous browbeating by social media, which, I suspect, has contributed to the tripling of the suicide rate for adolescent girls in the past fifteen years.
The arson, and delays in solving the case, although Israel has several suspects in custody, contributed to the outbreak of the worst Palestinian street violence in years.
More recently in Zimbabwe, a suspect election has contributed to a precipitous economic slide and laid the ground for political strife.
I suspect this has contributed to my discomfort with a great deal of what I see practised around me in Pakistan.
Waves deflected from the breakwater are also strongly suspected of having contributed to the 60-foot waves that engulfed communities north of it.
The artificially low interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve are suspected of having contributed to higher asset prices in many markets, such as stocks and commodities.
Q4 (Pulmonary Tuberculosis suspected or confirmed) contributed to 1,4%.
