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Stephen Beard is the European bureau chief and provides daily coverage of Europe’s business and economic developments for the entire Marketplace portfolio.
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James Laurie - Jun 24, 2009

While I usually enjoy your creative and often sardonic voice when reporting business news, this morning when you reported that the World Bank said the global economy would "pucker", you overstepped a boundary into flippant, irresponsible, inaccurate, and wholly subjective by your choice of the word, and conjured up alternative visual images of biting into pickles, and something entirely different a bit lower anatomically. After reaching a nadir with "pucker", I would next expect to hear Tess Viglund paraphrase President Obama's statements regarding the health care lobby as "they suck". Let's not go there, please?