"In most cases, mayoral control comes to districts that are in deep trouble, and provides a big one-time jolt," said Michael W. Kirst, a Stanford University education professor.
Of the four GPS apps I tested — from major navigation companies — each crashed several times, jolting my iPhone back to the home screen.
What began as a one-time jolt in 2008, an unprecedented effort to revive economic activity, has become an uncomfortable status quo, an enduring reality in which savers are punished and borrowers rewarded by a permafrost of low interest rates.
When I first saw "The Yellow Sea" in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown under the bluntly literal title "The Murderer," the audience burst into applause several times, jolted by the choreographed frenzy of the movie's car and foot chases.
Cutting the corporate tax rate down to 20percentt doesn't encourage anything except a one-time jolt to asset prices.
You go into a survival shoot 'em up knowing that you'll be spending the majority of your time feeling jolts in your viscera as you fight for your life against whatever unholiness may come.
Eventually the makers hope it will shock you out of bed on time and jolt your exercise routine into shape.
Believe me, they beat a shrimp cocktail every time for jolting a jaded palate.
The Fed's move came in time to jolt markets in Europe, where investors have been incensed that the European Central Bank is ignoring pleas to cut rates.
This time the jolt was provided by the mediocre performance of American high school students, who underperformed not just the Chinese but dozens of other countries in standardized tests of science, math and reading.
