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There is a successful pop ballad called “Lady in Red” that worries me every time I hear it because the singer, Mr. de Burgh, has to struggle through three lines ending with the words chance, dance , and romance . As far as I can recall, he pronounces chance with a sharp “a,” and dance with a long “a,” and then he finds himself in the disastrous position of having to pronounce romance with a long “a,” too.
It said her former American defense lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, had interviewed witnesses who claimed to have seen 8-and-a-half-month-old Matthew Eappen fall from a shopping cart in a south Boston toy store while out shopping with his father, apparently injuring his head.
And more was at stake in these asset-market collapses than the money of hedge-fund investors: The sharp rise in the yen last fall threatened to send Japan into a deflationary spiral, the drying up of liquidity in the United States briefly seemed to threaten a general financial collapse.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the sharp expansion in the market for initial public offerings and secondary stock offerings has made it essential that brokerage houses have analysts who are well respected in their field.
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.