Is this a temporary blip or does it signify something deeper?

So is the economy experiencing a temporary downward blip that will soon fade?

So how many years has this 'temporary' blip in inflation been going on for now?

He added: 'We hope this is a permanent situation, not a temporary blip.

"But our feeling is that this is a temporary blip."

That could be a temporary blip or the start of a long decline, brokers said.

We are not seeing a temporary blip in our living standards here, this is a permanent transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top.

Hope it is just a temporary blip as England need him this year more than ever.

"Sept. 11 could well turn out to be only a temporary blip of distraction in that process, and I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't."

A temporary blip, perhaps - or yet another sign that China is bursting into its own.