Except for & Barring

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Ahn  #349217  Tue, 10 Apr 07 04:41 PM

"Except for when the Federal Reserve Bank or the Bank of Japan fails in increasing or decreasing the interest rates timely, it is a bed room where the synchronization lacks perfect success."

 

1) It's the sentence I made , and can I substitute 'except for when '  with 'barring when' ???

 

2) and, I want to know if  I write right sentence.

"Except for when the Federal Reserve Bank or the Bank of Japan fails in increasing or decreasing the interest rates timely(in a timely manner)"

----> what I want to mean in this part is "except for when they (FRB or BOJ) fail to choose right time to increase or decreas the interest rate".

 

3) and "it is a bed room where the synchronization lacks perfect success."  is right expression?

I mean to express 'it is a bed room where the synchronizaton failes to succeed fully(or perfectly)

but I have to avoid the word 'fail to' in it.

So what would be the best sentence for this?

 

 

  
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Marius Hancu  #349221  Tue, 10 Apr 07 04:53 PM
>bed room
bedroom, but doesn't fit here. Not sure what you mean to say.
  
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Ahn  #349224  Tue, 10 Apr 07 04:58 PM

bedroom is right.. it's my fault. Smile [:)]

the original text is

"Nowhere is a failure to achieve perfect synchronization more lamented than in the bedroom — unless it's when the U.S. Federal Reserve or the Bank of Japan raises or lowers interest rates and gets the timing wrong."

it's from 'revolutionary wealth' by Toffler.

but I have to write this differently,  more simple if possible.

  
Yankee  #349230  Tue, 10 Apr 07 05:12 PM
 Ahn wrote:
"Nowhere is a failure to achieve perfect synchronization more lamented than in the bedroom — unless it's when the U.S. Federal Reserve or the Bank of Japan raises or lowers interest rates and gets the timing wrong."

... I have to write this differently,  more simple if possible.

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I'd suggest leaving out the whole part about the bedroom (which you don't seem to have understood anyway Wink [;)]). Then you can start a simpler sentence this way:

There is nothing worse than ...

  
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Ahn  #349231  Tue, 10 Apr 07 05:22 PM

ok, 'there is nothing worse than ' will be nice. thank you. Wink [;)]

  
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