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In fact, the audience laughed all the way through the Office Space preview, experiencing shocks of recognition big and small.
For the growing numbers of experts advocating draconian "drill and practice" routines in which a teacher's every gesture and word is preprogrammed, Angela's Ashes offers a scene in which one of McCourt's Irish teachers shocks him into paying attention by having an opinion on things.
The film footage of the assassination still shocks and appalls.
He, still more aged, feels the 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.