If chips are as hot as power stations, the thinking goes, why not use them as such?

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That was a 90% loss for those fooled into thinking this was a hot issue that they had to own.

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The look of forward-thinking fashion and the appeal of hot cars pair quite nicely.

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Such wishful thinking led to the financial bubble of 1997-98, when hot money from abroad piled into flimsy stocks and bonds, culminating in the default, devaluation and banking collapse of August 1998.

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In case you were thinking that it's all two-star food, that day we had hot dogs.

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