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Word: deliriums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's periodic retreats in the market, though, show that the current delirium is laced with doubt. Investors are nervous because they realize that the new optimism on interest rates grew out of pessimism about the general health of the U.S. economy. Both Kaufman and Wojnilower changed their forecasts because they could no longer foresee a robust economic recovery that would revive business-loan demand and boost the cost of money. Yet, without a strong reversal of business fortunes, the stock rally is likely to be short-lived. Says Monte Gordon, chief of research for the Dreyfus Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, What a Beautiful Rally! | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Troy cited over prosecution objections medical records showing that the woman has suffered from "blackouts, hallucinations, delirium tremens and seizures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hussain Lawyer Calls Witness 'Spacey', Unstable | 5/4/1982 | See Source »

...Release! I see. From fever and delirium...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...winner. Obviously the Pistons and Red Wings are lost causes. They are the pits. They stink. So when it appears that the Lions or Tigers are emitting a glimmer of hope of making the playoffs--playoffs that mean something--the city goes nuts. There is Motown Madness. Detroit Delirium...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Lowdown on Motown | 1/7/1982 | See Source »

Singelhandedly, they ward off missiles, but the cities they defend are only electronic blurs, and the missiles, figments of automated delirium tremens that cannot lose. Even Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Confident Impotence | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

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