Word: feverish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone agreed, and Prince pushed aside James Cayne of Bear Stearns--the investment bank that started Wall Street's summer of pain when two hedge funds it managed nearly imploded in June--as the subject of the industry's most feverish when-will-he-go talk. Citi was far from alone in its troubles. BofA (profits down 32%) and Wachovia (down 10%) had bad quarters too, as did investment banks Morgan Stanley (down 7%) and Merrill Lynch (which recorded a loss...
...Oxford Museum of Natural History, according to Berry, who takes a group of Harvard student to the museum each year.But the fire did not destroy demand for the dodo. Decades later, in the Victorian era, the “Cabinet of Curiosity” craze reached a feverish intensity and stoked demand for fake birds.“You would try to beat out your neighbor by having more and better oddities,” Berry said.A company in London used the charred dodo remains and a few archival drawings to construct fake dodos and fill the void...
...hospital in Reggio Emilia, where he could starve more systematically. The daily ration was a piece of bread and some chicory coffee, and to keep the children from running off, "they took all of our clothes away." He lay on a bed with no sheets, no blankets, feverish with hunger. It was there he learned the art of patient plotting as he imagined all the ways he might escape and the obstacles he'd face...
...When FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter, toured India in April with Mohammad bin Hamman, head of the Asian Football Confederation, he attended the derby fixture and was reportedly impressed by the match's feverish atmosphere. But that didn't make up for the shambolic management and crippling lack of infrastructure that dogs the Indian game. Hamman spoke bluntly: "Frankly speaking, they only have the history. I did not see any future...
...detail and psychological nuance, the film's big talking point is three startlingly intense scenes between Leung and Wang. Sex may not sell at the box office (audiences get enough of that in their home entertainment), but it's news at film festivals. And Lee knows how to stoke feverish whispers. When at Venice he was asked if the actors engaged in actual sex, he impishly replied, "Have you seen the film...