Consumers will bring forward purchases because of the VAT increase, but it's a flash in the pan. It won't last into 2007.

Consumption should increase next year and contribute to growth.

We think we've seen the peak in import prices. Even if energy prices stay around current levels, inflation should start to fall.

This is not a flash in the pan, ... This is going to go into the next year.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.