The top Silicon Valley companies have the resources to pay for the talent, but there have been some concerns on tech earnings conference calls that some of them, especially Google, have gone on a hiring binge.
On the other side of the border, Iraqi Kurds have embarked on a construction binge to transform their region - with most of the work done by Turkish companies employing tens of thousand of Turkish workers.
Spurred by a sudden drop in prices, Asians in the last two weeks have gone on a gold-buying binge.
Indian power firms have lately been on a buying binge of coal assets overseas.
Croatia, the Balkan nation on the Adriatic Sea, came in at No. 1, while Britain, where fears about binge drinking have prompted a flurry of new legislation, came in at only No. 15.
Heady profits have led to a global capital-investment binge, most easily seen in Asia.
Unrealistic forecasts of future productivity growth have inflated share prices, encouraged a borrowing binge and pushed up the dollar.
Remember, they might have to go on a legal and accounting hiring binge if they expect to enforce their higher standards.
Over the past two years, though, Chinese banks have engaged in a government-inspired stimulus lending binge that expanded their lending books by 58%.
As a close observer of the debate over defense spending now consuming this Committee, its House counterpart and countless other organizations and forums in Washington and elsewhere, I have the unsettling sensation that I am witnessing a binge by people determined to count the proverbial chickens before they are hatched.
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The report said a key aim of government policy should therefore be to encourage people to remain active, engage in regular exercise and refrain from behaviours that could have a detrimental effect on their health, such as binge drinking, smoking and overeating.
But eastern Europe and Russia have been hammered because local banks went on a foreign-borrowing binge, foreign banks piled into their markets (and piled out again) and because some countries lacked insurance policies against tough times.
Hospital admissions linked to alcohol problems have reached a record high, prompting fresh concern about the harm being caused by binge drinking.
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The binge of recent years would not have been possible if the Fed had had a prudent monetary policy.
Medical experts have warned that Britain will be gripped by a liver disease epidemic within 15 years because of the prevalence of binge drinking.
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