That set off a wave of selling in markets around the world, causing stocks, bonds and other investments to tumble in value.
If Cate had been a star in the 30's, her hair would have tumbled in soft curls around her face.
On cue, the yen tumbled in currency markets around Asia as it became clear that Toshihiko Fukui, the governor of the Bank of Japan, was about to defy expectations of a rate rise.Once again, his bank decided discretion was the better part of valour.
The smell is intoxicating, as the peppers tumble around in the roasters, their seeds popping from the intense heat.
The exhibition is notable for the wide range of subjects: portraits of Mr. Devine's children, photographs of drawings he made when he studied painting, trees in Maine, still lifes in which the objects tumble around as in a Cezanne painting and an arrangement of toy horses on the dining room table, to name a few.
Just as troubling, Web advertising measurement firm eMarketer estimates that Myspace's worldwide ad revenues dropped by 40percentt in 2010 to $288 million and forecasts that number will tumble to around $156 million in 2012.
And the waves scared her — she would never admit it, but they did, the way they could suck you in and tumble you around and shock you breathless.
The purchase turned Cemex into the largest producer of ready-mix cement (the stuff one sees tumbling around in trucks, ready to be poured) in the world.
After almost four years of trading near parity with the American currency, the Canadian dollar has tumbled in recent weeks to be worth around 90 US cents.
"They really are an indicator species for what we're doing to the sea," says Burgess. "If an animal that's that well-designed could start tumbling in terms of its population numbers around the world, what's that telling us about the things below it in the food chain?" That "design" is so hearty that sharks as a group have survived for 400 million years, predating dinosaurs.
