Word: interest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think your album is striking a chord with so many people in 2009? It's a bit of nostalgia and what's going on in Afghanistan at the moment, I suppose. With our boys going away once again to fight, it sort of got people interested in the music of the earlier period. And the schools have been teaching about the Second World War, and that causes an interest...
Most retrosexual experiences seem to spring from an intense, almost uncontrollable mixture of nostalgia and interest. "You get a thrill out of finding an old girlfriend just to see if she still likes you," says W. Keith Campbell, a University of Georgia psychology professor and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic. "You're curious to see what she looks like, and it's easy to fantasize about alternative courses your life might have taken." It's the same feeling that compels people to attend high school reunions. In a way, these meet-ups are the same thing, especially for people...
After the swine flu epidemic dissipates, the University plans to turn the phone number into a hotline for other "major issues of interest to the Harvard community," as the website says...
...Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, contends that people should ignore issues like marriage and follow their economic self-interest, which aligns with Democratic policies. But people care about culture regardless of their finances. “It’s no less ridiculous to complain about evangelical Christians in Kansas voting for Republicans than to complain about movie stars in Hollywood voting for Democrats who will raise their taxes,” said Ross G. Douthat ’02, a columnist for The New York Times...
...debt, though this is less of a weapon than is often portrayed in your press. (We have to recycle the dollars we earn from trade somewhere, and your Treasury market remains the largest and most liquid in the world. Plus, we, like the Japanese before us, have no real interest in seeing your interest rates rise and growth slow, particularly not now, and that's what would happen if we went on a T-bill buying strike.) But holding your debt does give us leverage, and we have some decisions to make now. Specifically, we'd like to diversify...