Word: breaths
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John McCain was not quite 2 years old when his parents despaired of managing his tantrums; he would go into a "mad frenzy," he says, holding his breath until he passed out and fell to the floor. A Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...
...respectively. India's Sensex added 7.7%, while China's CSI 300 index, which measures both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, was up 4.12%. Japan's stock market, which last week suffered the worst rout in its history, was closed Monday for a holiday. "I think markets took a breath and will rebound in the next few days," says Sean Tsang, senior vice president of Polaris Securities in Hong Kong...
...behavior of stock markets - which are aggregations of thousands of companies - is at best difficult and at worst foolish. Nonetheless, there were events that were hard to ignore. Insurance contracts tied to the debt of the now defunct Lehman Brothers were finally settled up, and - after much breath-holding - no other firms unraveled. In Washington, black SUVs and town cars of the G-7's central bankers and Treasury officials rolled into town, bringing with them the hope that the people with the power to fix things - assuming there are such people - will collectively figure out a plan. On Friday...
...sources of advice from unreliable ones. The jumbled frenzy of 24/7 information access may be making our current panic worse. It's tempting to check your investments every few minutes. But having more information, in this case, isn't necessarily better. Panic attacks end when you take a deep breath, and a step back...
...sort of thing, you know? [pant] A relationship is like an extracurricular activity and I’ve got plenty [pant] plenty of those.” “I’m taking five classes and writing a thesis,” Maxwell fired back in one breath. But it was too late—the mechanical whizzing of the now-full workout room was too loud. Livingstone demounted having heard nothing, and headed off to her WIB event. It occurred to me that no matter how hard Maxwell tried to make herself appear over-committed, she?...