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The LAT 's headline indicates doubts any new government will be any more capable of swift reform, but what the headline giveth, the subhead taketh away: ".but others say losses may jolt party into action."
Because the stress is rarely discharged in a single jolt, earthquakes almost always occur in clusters: first, a few small foreshocks; then the strongest quake, or mainshock; then aftershocks.
) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.
But there was another jolt, reports the Enquirer , when he opened her wedding gift to him: a Stairmaster.
So I've been doing this now for (gulp!) 17 years, and while I've never had another story that gave me quite that same jolt, I've never stopped feeling that way about business.