In the middle of the stock market crash, he heard a slight noise in the outer office.

* Atlas Press ( tool company ) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the largest supplier of machine tools to the hobbyist market in the middle of the 20th century

Nigeria is a middle income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding financial, service, communications, and entertainment sectors.

A good crop, coupled with decreased demand caused by the production of imitation vanilla, pushed the market price down to the $ 40 per kilogram range in the middle of 2005.

* The Hybrid vehicles market, which became somewhat popular towards the middle of the decade, underwent major advances notably typified by such cars as the Toyota Prius, Ford Escape, and the Honda Insight though by December 2010 they accounted for less than 0. 5 % of the world cars.

Monnow Street is a typical market street, in being wide in the middle ( for those selling ) and narrow at each end, to help prevent livestock escaping.

In 1721 the town council acquired the palace of Baroness Sponheim ( today's Old Town Hall or Altes Rathaus ) as a replacement for the town hall built in 1440 in the middle of the market place and destroyed by fire.

The town centre still possesses the typical structure of a Bavarian street market: the settlement is grouped around a road widening into a square ; the Town Hall was located in the middle.

However, after slowly realizing the size of the market, TI decided to cut Commodore out of the middle, and released their own calculators at a price point below Commodore's cost of just the chips.

Social market economy is the economic policy of modern Germany that steers a middle path between the goals of socialism and capitalism within the framework of a private market economy and aims at maintaining a balance between a high rate of economic growth, low inflation, low levels of unemployment, good working conditions, public welfare and public services by using state intervention.

The middle of the town square was used for military activities and folk art, and as a market in the morning.

The five year ' Plan Pons ' to rationalise car production and husband scarce resources, named after socialist economist Paul-Marie Pons, only allowed Citroën the middle range of the car market, with the Traction Avant.

As middle class households ceased to employ servants, the large Notting Hill houses lost their market and were increasingly split into multiple occupation.

It has a second London salesroom in South Kensington which opened in 1975 and primarily handles the middle market.

In 1984, in response to public complaints regarding the severity of horror elements in PG-rated titles such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the PG-13 rating was created as a middle tier between PG and R. In 1990, the X rating was replaced by NC-17, partly because the X rating was not trademarked by the MPAA, whereas pornographic bookstores and theaters were using their own X and XXX symbols to market products.

The combined reasons were that the world was in the middle of an economic recession, sales in the key United States market had virtually collapsed, and as none of the original model range had been redesigned or replaced the cars were seen as boring and technically behind the times by potential customers.

D66 is also a proponent of increased flexibility in the labour market and tax-cuts for the lower and middle classes.

And thus were created more favourable conditions to this market among the middle class.

A limited version of LP 670 – 4 SuperVeloce for Chinese market is distinguished by the middle stripe.

New Labour offered a middle way between the neo-liberal free market economics of the New Right, which it saw as economically efficient, and the ethical reformism of post-1945 Labour, which shared New Labour's concern for social justice.

XW-41 and its predecessor HY-4 lost their intended market when the wars in middle east ended, so XW-41 was converted to the first indigenously developed air-to-surface precision strike missile.

Hofstede says that capitalist market economy fosters individualism and competition and depends on it but individualism is also related to the development of middle class.

At the middle market price-range ($ 100 to approximately $ 1, 000 ), dolls are made of heavy latex without welded seams or a polyurethane and silicone mixture, typically surrounding a foam core.

The middle market and high-end market emerged in the USA around 1992.

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

A cemetery and rubble from earlier settlements are located near the middle of the west coast, where the boat landing area is located.

From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.

Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.

All citizens of Haiti, regardless of skin color, to be known as " Black " ( this was an attempt to eliminate the multi-tiered racial hierarchy that had developed in Haiti, with full or near full-blooded Europeans at the top, various levels of light to brown skin in the middle, and dark skinned " Kongo " from Africa at the bottom ).

It is located near the boat landing at the middle of the west coast by the former site of Itascatown.

There is a boat landing area in the middle of the western shoreline near a crumbling day beacon, and another near the southwest corner of the island.

The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.

In fact, by the middle Cretaceous, equatorial ocean waters ( perhaps as warm as 20 ° C in the deep ocean ) may have been too warm for sea life, and land areas near the equator may have been deserts despite their proximity to water.

A branch of the Murray in its middle reaches, near Howlong, New South Wales

Further south in Macedonia, near the town of Zletovo, the monastery of Lesnovo ( Lesnovo Manastir ), originally built in the 11th century, was renovated in the middle of the 14th century and a series of murals were painted.

North Dakota is situated near the middle of North America with a stone marker in Rugby, North Dakota marking the " Geographic Center of the North American Continent ".

Slopes are highest near the middle part of the flanks and grow shallower toward the base, giving the flanks a concave upward profile.

The vaulter should land near the middle of the foam landing mats, or pits, face up.

In Greek-speaking areas, this happened near the end of the 2nd century, and in Latin-speaking areas ( at least in North Africa ), it occurred in the middle of the 3rd century.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

In the middle of this confrontation, Henry unexpectedly fell ill and died near Lyons-la-Forêt.

These are usually found near the middle of the capital cities, and service the whole state or territory.

The middle classes preferred to live in more modern apartments near the city center or the University of the Republic.

In surveys of presidential scholars, Taft is usually ranked near the middle of lists of all American Presidents.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

He remained " at the top of the tree ," as he put it, for the remaining decade and a half of his life, producing several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis.

One day he found one of his purest crystals nevertheless worked well, and interestingly, it had a clearly visible crack near the middle.