Word: funking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Numbers like these suggest Singaporeans are in a funk so deep only psychiatrists would be flourishing here. Consumer confidence has fallen to an all-time low, according to pollster A.C. Nielsen's latest bi-annual survey. Yet the city's malls and restaurants are no less crowded than before. Property launches are thronged, especially for cheaper suburban homes. Nor are Singaporeans just flipping the pages of the glossy property brochures or sadly gazing at the architectural models, wishing they were one of the frolicking toy figures in the miniature pool. They're buying too. Property developers sold 1,332 units...
...likelier explanation for her sorrow. “My mother played this when she got the divorce papers,” she explained without inquiry. Stunned, I did what any human would do in my situation—I asked the manager on duty to put on That Funk. Upon exiting the ladies room, makeup comparatively less smudged, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Boogie Wonderland” welcomed her back. A fortified smile quickly emerged over her still salt-stained face. Moving confidently to a full banquette, she plied a group of patrons to order another...
...Getting Out of a Funk...
...Right now, the key challenges facing Japan are domestic. The Japanese, in a funk since the bubble burst, know that things cannot go on like they have. "Japanese people wish for a fundamental change, but there's no one to vote for," says Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon University in Tokyo. Koll says that "the real question is whether politics can be sexy again for the younger generation - something that you actually want to be involved with, not only because it affects your life but affects your future...
...almost entirely. If you feel sad and tired for a couple of months, have trouble sleeping and making decisions, and gain weight, you can be given a DSM diagnosis of depression (296.31 or 296.32, mild or moderate, recurrent) and prescribed drugs for it - even if the reason for your funk is that you just lost your job. Such physiological responses as insomnia are evolutionarily natural (and sometimes helpful, in a jump-starting sort of way) when you suffer a trauma like losing your job. But according to the DSM, only perfect is considered normal. Another basic problem with...