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Stagflation is probably the worst word of vocabulary for financial markets because it's the worst of both worlds. Inflation stays high and the economy slows, i think we're getting a whiff of stagflation now. – Leo Grohowski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by Normando 2 years ago
The institutional shareholders are starting to get a greater whiff of the responsibilities of being a shareholder. In the past, they didn’t care. Those days are long gone. – Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There's a whiff of genuine concern and social responsibility that brands and advertisers are showing. – Margaret Duffy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell. – Richard Clayton of Cambridge University	Found on CNN 7 years ago
He would be the last person on earth I would suspect, if I would have had even of whiff of that I would have fired him and slapped him upside his head. – Jerry Morgan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A lot of us have developed a political identity different to our parents, they came here with a great antagonism to socialism and anything that has even a whiff of Soviet to it. They are very capitalist. – Marik Stern	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – -Chapman Cohen	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – Chapman Cohen	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Stagflation is probably the worst word of vocabulary for financial markets because it's the worst of both worlds. Inflation stays high and the economy slows, i think we're getting a whiff of stagflation now.

– Leo Grohowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

– P. J. O'Rourke

added by Normando
2 years ago

The institutional shareholders are starting to get a greater whiff of the responsibilities of being a shareholder. In the past, they didn’t care. Those days are long gone.

– Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There's a whiff of genuine concern and social responsibility that brands and advertisers are showing.

– Margaret Duffy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell.

– Richard Clayton of Cambridge University

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He would be the last person on earth I would suspect, if I would have had even of whiff of that I would have fired him and slapped him upside his head.

– Jerry Morgan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A lot of us have developed a political identity different to our parents, they came here with a great antagonism to socialism and anything that has even a whiff of Soviet to it. They are very capitalist.

– Marik Stern

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

– -Chapman Cohen

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

– Chapman Cohen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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