Yet, once again, the Bush administration is preparing to leap into the unknown.

The big rush to jump on the Great Recession bandwagon happened because most analysts and policymakers simply had the wrong framework in mind.

He was concerned about jumps 16 and 17, but paid little attention to the third jump, which was a routine three foot three fence shaped like the letter 'W'.

In none of them do the conditions yet exist for an immediate leap from war to peace, nor do the parties themselves expect that to happen.

The big rush to jump on the Great Recession bandwagon happened because most analysts and policymakers simply had the wrong framework in mind. Unfortunately, by now it is far too clear how wrong they were.

RB Yeah. No, I put on my oxygen mask and stood on top of the balloon, with my parachute, looking at the swirling clouds below, trying to pluck up my courage to jump into the North Sea, which and it was a very, very, very lonely few moments.

As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.

And he said, Unless that even you get high tech flat on the 100th floor of a super modern and comfortable building, if you are deeply unhappy within, all you are going to look for is a window from which to jump.

We've got to do whatever we can to help them, but we've also got to ask, I think, a more profound question of whether we use this crisis to jump forward to a different kind of economy that's more suited to human needs, to a better balance of economy and society.