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But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S.Corn Belt.

Even as a satire , it seems disgusting and shocking in America with its child-centered culture.

Children in America are being treated with shocking cruelty.

If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.

It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with shocking headlines.

witnesses said people were looking on in horror, as the child's mother, identified by sources as Maria Samara, stood frozen in shock.

Such results may seem surprising against the background of shocking incidents that color the way the mass media portray the young.

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.

After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets.

She went into shock after an operation.

I was shocked to hear of your wife's illness.

He was shocked, it was like he did not think anyone would ever know what he had done.

I still remember visiting a friend who'd lived here for five years and I was shocked when I learnt she hadn't cooked once in all that time.

Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

So scientists have come up with a shocking idea.

Suddenly another thought went through kate's mind like an electric shock.

Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.

The shock and anger when a social media firm does something with data that people don't expect, even if users have apparently permission, show that the current situation isn't working.

Two more ran to get the school nurse, who brought a defibrillator, an electronic devices that can shock the heart back into work.

When a secretary in my office first called him "motorhead", I was shocked.

When the car's owner John anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car-which was itself worth ￡35, 000—in Glasgow city centre, they were shocked to find two policemen standing next to it.

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” is a piece of cake.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.

It has not gotten anywhere close to that, and one big reason is sticker shock.

Half of the pens would deliver an electric shock when clicked.

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" is a piece of cake.

When left alone in the room, the students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and incurred more shocks than the students who knew what would happen.