Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.

And I remember that proverbial light going off in my head, thinking, Wait a minute.

In fact, what if it's a symptom of a much deeper problem, the tip of a proverbial iceberg?

So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.

The summit, after all, is not the proverbial silver bullet but the launch of a process and the indication of the collective will for change.

The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details. But prospects for a deal will hinge on resolving three broad issues.

In the workplace, women had managed to break through the proverbial glass ceiling, and many held high ranking positions in both the Government and the private sector.

I think it was my longstanding desire to bring together my interest in art, science and philosophy that allowed me to be ready when the proverbial light bulb went on.

Indeed, with Shiite Sunni violence already intensifying, the Iraqi government may not be able to maintain even the appearance of effectiveness for very long. Moreover, the Kurds are the proverbial dog that hasn t yet barked.

In these countries, there is therefore no reason to think that fiscal consolidation would have a strong positive effect on confidence. That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic. But if he looked inside the data packets, he would see very different content.

In the face of such calamitous conditions, Ukraine s government is a bit like the proverbial Dutch boy who put his finger in a dike to stop the sea from leaking through. Despite herculean efforts, more leaks continue to appear.

That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view. But it is not on the horizon yet, which means that there would be no positive private spending response to buffer public spending cuts.

Even if you go for a walk in the proverbial woods, there is a company that manufactured the car that delivered you to the edge of the woods there's a company that manufactured the shoes that you have to protect yourself from the ground of the woods.

The European Central Bank has announced that it will offer new monetary policy support and has decided to use all instruments short of direct quantitative easing (it is still not buying sovereign bonds). But it is far from clear whether the proverbial horse led to water will actually drink.

The oldest rule in personal finance is to avoid debt that is, never spend more than you earn. Economists and moralists have been united in believing that you should actually spend less than you earn in order to save for the proverbial rainy day or for old age.

Most Western commentators continue to over simplify this debate, framing it in terms of the proverbial China hard landing scenarios that have been off the mark for 20 years. In the wake of this summer s stock market plunge and surprising devaluation of the renminbi, the same thing is happening again.

Too often, the raters seem content to follow rather than lead sentiment. Like the proverbial bus driver fixated on what is happening in his rear view mirror rather than watching what is in front of him, too many bond analysts focus on historical economic data as the key determinant of future performance.

France is now experiencing a practical demonstration of this insane and totally inefficient policy, with the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, providing a telling illustration of the new orientation when he described the rebellious young as scum. It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.

Although investors believe that the backstop is unlikely to be used, its mere presence dissuades them from betting against Italy. In other words, the outright monetary transactions (OMT) scheme announced by ECB President Mario Draghi last July has served as the proverbial bazooka a gun so powerful that it does not need to be used.

Long standing charges of currency manipulation provide the proverbial smoking gun that US politicians of both parties 160 believe justifies the imposition of steep tariffs on China s exports to the US (which totaled 365 billion in 2010). That was precisely the argument behind the US Senate s recent overwhelming approval of a currency bill that took dead aim on China.

Long standing charges of currency manipulation provide the proverbial smoking gun that US politicians of both parties believe justifies the imposition of steep tariffs on China s exports to the US (which totaled 365 billion in 2010). That was precisely the argument behind the US Senate s recent overwhelming approval of a currency bill that took dead aim on China.

WASHINGTON, DC Sudan sits at the proverbial crossroads between potential peace and possible nationwide conflict, which would undoubtedly become the world s deadliest conventional war in 2011. A referendum on South Sudan s independence, scheduled for January 9, 2011, will likely split the country in two, with southerners finally achieving the freedom for which they have long fought.

In retrospect, the Committee probably should have refused the case, given that Lomborg s book was subject to intense public scrutiny, often by experts writing (favorably) in The Economist and (unfavorably) in Scientific American. His was a genuine case in which intellectual work was given a fair trial in the proverbial court of public opinion and required no further oversight.

It starts with strong preconceptions about the nature of the problem too much (or too little) government regulation, too poor governance, too little public spending on health and education, and so on. Moreover, its recommendations take the form of the proverbial laundry list of reforms, and emphasize their complementary nature the imperative to undertake them all simultaneously rather than their sequencing and prioritization.

If more people in the health delivery space really working on some of these challenges in low income countries could start their design process, their solution search, from outside of that proverbial box and inside of the hospital in other words, if we could design for the environment that exists in so many parts of the world, rather than the one that we wished existed we might just save a lot of lives.