His demeanor was crisp yet easy going.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs.

Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

The pace of job growth reached 10 year highs in 2007.

But, whereas metal prices have fallen, oil prices are reaching record highs.

Food prices, too, are at historical highs, contributing to poverty and political unrest.

The old Obama was youthful, charming, graceful, and full of hope. His demeanor was crisp yet easy going.

On the one hand, we have an Apollonian perspective, which is very crisp and premeditated and intellectualized and perfect.

Markets responded euphorically, with stock prices in the US, for example, reaching post recession highs.

The past two weeks have seen some highs and lows for the game of football.

The annual fluctuation in level is 1.7m, with seasonal highs in May and lows in January.

The crude oil price already has dropped substantially from its highs at the beginning of the year.

Oil, food, and gold prices have jumped to historic highs, and the dollar has depreciated to historic lows.

Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year round.

So imagine that right now I handed each and every one of you a thousand U.S. dollars so 10 crisp hundred dollar bills.

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

This is a dish called crispy shredded beef, which has a lot of crisp, a lot of shred, and not a lot of beef.

Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society.

And, of course, rapid growth in the advanced countries generally fueled an increase in world trade volumes to record highs.

When telegraph operators were paid by the word, and there was always the risk of garbled transmissions, messages were crisp, succinct, and to the point.

With America bogged down in Iraq and oil prices hitting record highs, regime hardliners see little reason to compromise these days.

BRUSSELS At the beginning of the financial crisis, it was said that banks were, in Charles Goodhart s crisp phrase, international in life, but national in death.

SEOUL The commodity super cycle in which commodity prices reach ever higher highs, and fall only to higher lows is not over.

Summer highs usually hover around 10 15 degrees Celsius during the day time, but go down to around 0 5 degrees at night.

Global stock markets have, overall, reached new highs. And credit markets show low spreads, while long term bond yields have fallen in most advanced economies.

With world energy prices at record highs, it makes sense for oil economies to run surpluses, thereby saving for when oil supplies eventually peter out.

The highs were a delightful UEFA Champions League Final which ended up being a resounding endorsement of Spain s and Barcelona s supremacy in the football world.

Accordingly, and despite a significant market rally that has taken many individual stocks to record highs, Apple and Facebook currently trade at almost half their record levels.

While prices of oil, metals, and food rose very significantly after 2003, reaching historic highs sometime between 2008 and 2011, nobody expects similar price increases in the future.

While a hot spring can be enjoyed at any time of year in Japan, there's something about the crisp, cool air of fall that makes a dip in an outdoor bath even more enjoyable.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran.

Relative to the US dollar, an equal weighted basket of 10 major Asian currencies (excluding Japan) has retraced the crisis related distortions of 2008 2009 and has now returned to pre crisis highs.

Yet the dollar remains at a relatively high value less than 20 below its early 2001 highs and more than 10 higher in real terms than in the early to mid 1990's.

Criticism As this is a logical (deterministic) and not a statistical (probabilistic) technique, with Crisp Set QCA (csQCA), the original application of QCA, variables can only have two values, which is problematic as the researcher has to determine the values of each variable.

The issuance of risky junk bonds under loose covenants and with excessively low interest rates is increasing the stock market is reaching new highs, despite the growth slowdown and money is flowing to high yielding emerging markets.

Due to the increasingly expensive and volatile cost of energy, this strategy has become very important because it allows a way for city residents to be less susceptible to varying highs and lows in various energy prices.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs. Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.

The overall unemployment rate (12 ) has yet to peak, led by an alarming lack of jobs among the young (24 joblessness in the eurozone as a whole, with highs of 59 and 56 in Greece and Spain, respectively).

Household debt stood at 112 of income in the third quarter of 2012 down from record highs in 2006, but still nearly 40 percentage points above the 75 norm of the last three decades of the twentieth century.

So here's the format They're going to have six minutes each, and then after one little, quick exchange between them, I want two people on each side of this debate in the audience to have 30 seconds to make one short, crisp, pungent, powerful point.

Singapore's Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) had been closely involved in those efforts and, in June 2004, it had organized an ASEAN workshop on oil spill detection and monitoring, in cooperation with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Risk spreads have declined from their mid crisis highs, but credit in many sectors remains tight or barely available, while the financial sector is set to become more conservative and is likely to be re regulated with higher capital, reserve, and margin requirements.

While European police forces place prevention at the top of their agendas, France has chosen to treat it as a marginal goal. As a result, tensions between the police, who are increasingly perceived as outsiders, and residents have grown to all time highs.

With oil prices higher than ever, its country risk premiums lower than ever, remittances from abroad, tourism revenues, and foreign investment hitting all time highs, and annual GDP growth estimated at 4.2 for this year, Mexicans in many ways have never had it so good.

On a trip back home to Canada during a Japanese summer, I was luxuriating in the cool, crisp air when I was struck with a panic attack did I unwittingly bring back cockroaches to Canada in my suitcase? Could there, at this very moment, be a cockroach creeping around, ready to set up shop in my hometown?