The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.

There was also, even in her first month of treatment, a number of minor 'side-effects' (a term which I found it increasingly difficult to give any meaning to), with the promise (or threat) of others lurking in posse — as I imagined it — in an as-yet unactualized state.

The successive equity financings were at higher and higher valuations.

Nervous consumers and business executives put off discretionary spending.