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In Yediot Aharanot , Danny Rothchild, a former intelligence officer of the Israeli Defence Forces, predicted that the transfer of power in Jordan will take place "without many shocks" but that there will be hard times ahead for the Jordanian people.
5. What is the only thing that could bring back the oil shocks of the 1970s, according to Steve Chapman?
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
But when two countries are subject to strong "asymmetric shocks"--which is econospeak for saying that if they shared a common currency one would sometimes be in a boom while the other was in a slump and vice versa--there is a good case for their having separate currencies whose relative values are allowed to fluctuate.
Degas spent the following decade developing an art that reflected the jostling shocks and perpetual motion of the modern metropolis.