• Salcedo, born to wealth though not to the nobility, survives a loveless father, a mad wife and a liaison with his former wet nurse to develop into an astute and innovative businessman.

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  • So with the rebound factor from a down cycle, a Federal Reserve that prints money like mad and a federal government running huge unprecedented deficits we are growing at how much? 1.3% Small Business is clamoring for a good plan and good leadership.

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  • "It was made in a deliberate mad rush for a tent in the middle of a field, " says Holmes.

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  • His relatively smooth progress was jolted in the final set when he made a mad dash to retrieve a half-volley and hit the deck just after reaching the ball with a backhand, ending up sprawled on the rubberised hardcourt.

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  • Mr. Workman drew comparisons to a mad scientist, working in a chaotic office strewn with papers and avoiding meetings.

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  • Camus preferred to ask how a mad (or at least a very bizarre) man might choose to judge a court.

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  • As an irritating nebbish named Kleinman, who gets caught up in a search for a mad killer, he anchors a farrago of generic art-house themes and personalities.

    NEWYORKER: Shadows and Fog

  • That's why it's a matter of some national concern that Brazil, a football-mad country with a seemingly neverending conveyor belt of talent, has never won the Olympic tournament -- not with its men, or its also highly-talented women.

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  • That knowledge gained in college on its very best day has little to no relationship with the work individuals around the world perform once graduated has not deterred a mad political rush to make a college education as universal as healthcare.

    FORBES: India, and the Economic Folly of a College Degree

  • James tried to spur yet another comeback in the final minutes, getting mad after a rough foul.

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  • He meets a mad fakir, and escapes from a mental asylum.

    BBC: India's undying love affair with Tintin

  • And the president was said to be hopping, Texan mad by a remark attributed to the chancellor's then justice minister comparing his political tactics to those of Adolf Hitler.

    BBC: Schroeder shunned by 'cordial' Bush

  • He is 22, one of the only flyers in the team and they bring on Lewis Moody, who is mad as a hatter, but great at smacking anything that moves.

    BBC: Zinzan Brooke column

  • The Clinton administration's interventions in Kosovo and East Timor are increasingly condemned by many politicians, especially Republican ones, as multilateralism gone mad, a promiscuous spending of American energy on tiny and distant causes.

    ECONOMIST: America��s world

  • Regulators deliberately keep a pending closure secret to avoid a mad rush to remove deposits--a run on the bank, if you will.

    FORBES: Is Your Bank At Risk Of Failure?

  • What forced Mr. Zhu off his original story that a mad bomber had killed the youngsters was a blizzard of e-mail messages from enraged relatives and villagers that spread the true story across China namely that the students had been required by authorities to spend part of their school day at the dangerous job of assembling fireworks.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A post-release message for Communist China��s leaders

  • What forced Mr. Zhu off his original story that a mad bomber had killed the youngsters was a blizzard of e-mail messages from enraged relatives and villagers that spread the true story across China -- namely that the students had been required by authorities to spend part of their school day at the dangerous job of assembling fireworks.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A post-release message for Communist China's leaders

  • The Bush administration even pushed to include the country of Georgia, which started a war with Russia four years ago, a mad policy which would needlessly risk confrontation with a nuclear-armed power.

    FORBES: Why Are American Troops Still Stationed In Europe?

  • Freedman claims, among other things, that Renaissance could not refund customer deposits because it had fraudulently spent the unearned revenue in a mad dash to increase its cruise ship assets before a planned stock offering.

    FORBES: Marooned

  • Already India is seeing a mad rush to set up special economic zones--a less ambitious step-- throughout the country.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The rewards for the missions include currency or items you can wear, such as a tan neckerchief, a Mad Hatter-style hat, items that would send a designer packing in Project Runway.

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  • When France lifted a six-year ban on British beef in October after a mad cow scare, the government announced it would pass a law requiring restaurants to say where their meat came from.

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  • He thus put together a collection of apparatus that would not have disgraced the set of a mad-scientist horror film, and filled it with a mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapour that matched contemporary ideas of what the primitive terrestrial atmosphere had been composed of.

    ECONOMIST: Stanley Miller

  • In his new project, Krug offers up a glimpse of himself as a mad sonic alchemist, as he expands his compositional grasp to create a full-fledged rock opera.

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  • In a mad rush for subsidies, farm co-ops, VeraSun and other outfits erected a few too many ethanol plants.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In an interview with The New York Times, Weiner - who was a former writer for mob drama The Sopranos - said the cuts would make Mad Men "a different show".

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  • California-based HPV Technologies recently demonstrated a "magnetic acoustic device" or MAD that can broadcast a targeted beam of sound for a more than mile.

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  • After all, although the three-martini lunch is a "Mad Men"-era relic, alcohol undoubtedly still plays a key role in many work functions.

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  • The two-day festival will include masterclass demonstrations, 1950s bus rides and a Mad Hatter's tea party.

    BBC: Bakewell custard pie fight 'too risky'

  • And Dean was clutching his head in the crowd and it was a mad crowd.

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