Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have not been investigated to any significant extent that would warrant the claims that are being made,'' says Dr. Ronald Petersen, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Other geriatricians are more blunt. All the hoopla, they say, is merely a case of the placebo effect run amuck: people want their memories to get better, so they do. Give them a sugar pill, and they probably wouldn't know the difference...
...would take to pay off a balance with only the minimum. (For instance, if you paid just the minimum 2% on a $5,000 balance at 15%, it would take you 32 years, and you'd pay $7,700 in interest.) "This is an industry that's run amuck," says Frank Torres, legislative counsel at Consumer Union. "Fees are another way to squeeze money out of consumers...
...chip is a well-meaning but deeply flawed attempt to help families screen the offerings of a medium run amuck. But there is a low-tech way to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter...
...just one little simple parable. One is our relationship to machines, which are fearful, but also benign. Then there is the lesson of friendship and symbiotic relationships, of your obligations to your fellow-man, to other people that are around you. This is a world where evil has run amuck. But you have control over your destiny, you have many paths to walk down, and you can choose which destiny is going to be yours...
...Lately, though, the pop has been more explosive. EBay rose a quick 37%; Xerox, 10%; Microsoft, 12%. People now pay for services that alert them via pager or e-mail whenever a split is announced, so they can quickly buy the stock. It's an example of lemmings running amuck in the market--dumb money chasing any trend that doesn't require thoughtful analysis...