Americans no longer view an oil shock as shocking and consumers, oil suppliers, lobbyists and politicians have all played roles in the reaction.
That view came as a shock to Dave Hanson, who said he last spoke to Dowd four or five years ago.
Exiting the League Cup at the hands of Third Division Rotherham was embarrassing, but the fact that the press did not view it as a shock spoke volumes.
In this view, an aggregate shock does not necessarily change the total amount of idiosyncratic risk – the variation of labor productivity y around labor time and effort supplied – but rather changes its composition between the unobserved category ϵ and the observed category ν.
If you thought Butlins still stood for knobbly knees and donkey derbies, you might be in for a shock viewing "Resort", a new series by the photographer Anna Fox.
And the comment could be viewed as part of a "shock and core" strategy to "reach out to their core voters".
Bill Dugovich, a union spokesman, called the resignation of Mr. Condit, widely viewed as a conciliator, "just a shock".
While the numbers are a shock when viewed in such blunt terms, the actual story behind them shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.
When you're sitting in your hip-wide rowing shell and you look down to suddenly see sticks, and leaves and maybe even a fish beneath you in the silt, the view can come as quite a shock.
The employee who ignores this fact of life is in for a shock, in the view of Laurence J. Stybel and Maryanne Peabody, authors of the Business Review article in support of layoffs and partners at Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, a consulting firm.
