Word: herded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...armies of customers to besiege Northern Rock bank branches in recent days, there was a common cause. "I'm doing what everybody else is doing," one elderly man, waiting to withdraw his money from a branch in northern England, told reporters. That meant "panicking. I'm joining the herd...
...19th century Arizona, but he's leading a 20th century - or sub-prime - sort of life. He's behind on his mortgage payments to the big landowner, who wants the property back in order to sell it on the Internet - oops, sorry, to the railroad. Dan's cattle herd is also dwindling, one of his kids is sick and the other thinks he's a coward. Even his patient wife is beginning to eye him dubiously. You really don't want to walk in Dan's shoes...
...sharp housing correction was in the offing. They were right. But those who actually worked in the business of writing, packaging and investing in mortgage loans couldn't act on such concerns and expect to stay employed. There was too much money to be made running with the herd. Or dancing with it, as Citigroup CEO Charles Prince put it in a memorable July interview. "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance," he told the Financial Times. "We're still dancing." Now the mortgage-lending party is over, and housing markets...
...British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said a second herd of cattle had tested positive for the virus less than two miles from where a first infected group was found on Friday, on a farm some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of London. Health officials emphasized that the outbreak occurred within an enforced "protection zone" around the first incident, and there was still no evidence of wider spread of the disease...
...were hoping for here, coming up next is Art 38 Basel, Switzerland's art trade fair, a citywide aesthetic shop floor. Then there's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and then the Sculpture Project in Münster. Dealers, curators, critics and other determined members of the migratory art herd will be turning up at all four. There's a line from an old Stephen Sondheim song that could be their anthem. Do you know it? It goes, "Art isn't easy...