"It really is the biggest single economic jolt to the Midwest since the great floods," he said, adding, "It's big enough that it's changing the overall" economy.

In three months that could mean an economic jolt in excess of $45 billion.

Today, Hong Kong could use an economic jolt.

From the early evidence, it appears that water metering will provide a severe economic jolt to many buildings, probably in moderate-income neighborhoods in particular.

A region-wide energy crisis, felt particularly in Bulgaria, is one painful aspect of the economic jolt that has accompanied the breakup of the Soviet-led alliance.

Barring unforseen economic jolts, city officials expect the number of tax foreclosures to continue shrinking until it reaches a basic core that always will exist.

Even many Democrats who believe that an economic jolt is no longer needed support the stimulus plan because it would spend on traditional Democratic causes.

To many of the 1.1 million people in the Memphis area, Tyson is less a boxing outlaw than a one-man economic jolt.

Even though the lower tax rates will continue, the economic jolt comes from the initial cut.

A steelworkers' strike used to be feared as a catastrophic event, with the President sometimes preparing the nation for an economic jolt.