Jimi Petros survived perhaps the most worst shipwreck of them all, the night in October last year when 366 migrants died off Lampedusa, the tiny Mediterranean island that has become a miserable byword for transitory migrants.
The taper schedule doesn't seem to have changed despite the refusal of America's inflation shortfall to prove "transitory", as Fed leaders argued it would.
And something else may be at work: Obamacare and insurers are testing contracts to spur doctors to provide better, cheaper services.Still, much of this is transitory.
A film of the party shows India's rich and famous dancing to thumping music in a pool.Yet both great riches and fame are transitory, says Mr Jhunjhunwala .I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the money, but that's not what motivates me".
This discrepancy has fostered the "fat cat" theory of inequality: greedy businessmen sanction huge salaries for each other at the expense of shareholders.Whichever explanation you choose for the signs of growing inequality, none of the changes seems transitory.
Research in the euro area suggests that inflation has become less persistent there too, although it is more durable than in America.James Stock, of Harvard University, and Mark Watson, of Princeton University, have divided American inflation into two bits: a permanent element in which changes are enduring; and a transitory element, consisting of fluctuations around the trend.
Gigantic planets, called hot Jupiters, have been seen orbiting close to their suns, where they have no right to be unless their orbits can change.Computer simulations of the solar system now suggest that its current order is transitory and may have emerged by chance in a giant game of planetary pinball.
For high-debt countries, such as Greece and Italy, the interest rates demanded by markets to insure themselves against such risks would be ruinous.And even though the costs are likely to be heavy, the immediate benefits might prove only transitory.
But a rise in uncertainty that causes all firms to put their plans on hold will stop (or slow) growing firms, but bolster shrinking ones.Are uncertainty shocks always transitory? Almost.
As she reflects upon King David's letter inviting her to betray her husband, you look at her eyes, her hand clutching the letter and her feet being washed by an old crone, whose ugliness points to the transitory nature of physical beauty.
The statistical evidence suggests that, thanks to the central bankers' credibility as inflation fighters, America's underlying rate of price increases has become less vulnerable to transitory pressures, such as rising energy or food prices.
