bumpiness

We believe there will positive and negative signals over the next several months, which we call the bumpiness of finding bottoms.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

Here are companies that can ride out near-term bumpiness and keep your portfolio chugging along over the long term.

Riding Out the Storm 2008

The lack of bathrooms and bathroom breaks are complemented by a kind of bumpiness that can only be experienced in an old bus riding through the Andean mountains.

Nathaniel Loewentheil: Don't Mess with Quechuan Grandmothers 2009

"Reefs in general were not available to enhance biodiversity rebound because they first had to be reconstituted as viable ecosystems." do offer a variety of ecological niches and "bumpiness," as Aronson puts it, or a "great variety of physical spaces, [water] flow regimes and other ecological opportunities."

Scientific American 2010

He was already running, and all the jostling and bumpiness of the venture made any speech almost impossible.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

The oceans are all bumpy and change their bumpiness continuously.

Archive 2009-02-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

By scanning the sea surface height over large areas of the ocean over and over again we get both the real topography (bumpiness) of the oceans as well as their variations.

Archive 2009-02-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

He was already running, and all the jostling and bumpiness of the venture made any speech almost impossible.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

Part of this was a reaction to the bumpiness of the adoption process, part of it just a by-product of who we are: overly ruminative, insecure people.

Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010

But just as Crosby would have done on a Canadian pond years ago, he ignored the bumpiness of snow-encrusted ice to calmly beat Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller Tuesday for a goal in the third round of the shootout to give Pittsburgh a 2-1 win in the second regular-season outdoor game in NHL history.

Crosby's outdoor act follows 'a great script' 2008