Word: mania
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...concrete part has some Hong Kong residents worried. The city has long had a mania for massive building and land-reclamation projects, but that ardor is cooling. Landfill has left Hong Kong with an ever-narrowing harbor, and the reclaimed land has frequently been used for roads and bus terminals rather than for parks or restaurants. "Hong Kong has a magnificent harbor," says Christine Loh, head of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong think tank. "But actually it's pretty awful at the waterfront...
Decapitated in 1793, France's last Queen, Marie-Antoinette, seems a surprising muse for the modern nation. But Sofia Coppola's new biopic of the doomed monarch, now drawing crowds in French cinemas, is only one sign of burgeoning Marie mania. Michèle Lorin, founding president of the Queen's fan club, is thrilled by the new themed products on sale. "I'll admit I'm a publicity whore when it comes to the Queen," she says. Sweet Nostalgia Marie-Antoinette never suggested that the poor should "eat cake," but that hasn't stopped confectioner Ladurée from...
...only that but he had also gotten the goggles and gloves and taught her how to mix.”As his death approached, Bingham became harder on his friends.“Toward the end, his drive toward the good increased to the verge of mania,” McClure writes in an e-mail. “With time running short, Barry grew impatient with the people who loved him most. I saw this as a reflection of Barry’s impatience with himself, with his failing health, and his impatience with our inability to close...
...first started off as just paranoia. It's like looking around you, there's 100 people: in cars, sitting down, standing up, walking, running, and [you think] they're all following you and they're all trying to hurt you. From that came the terrible mania, when I would be so happy that I just couldn't see straight, I couldn't do anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands...
...denying the results, which were largely untainted by any non-soccer factors. The stocks weren't big gainers before or after. They showed unusual strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been steady winners...