Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres are not mad, but distinguished professors at Yale University, the former of economics, the latter of law.
In the heyday of the East India Company, the single biggest cause of death of the company's employees was not mad dogs or scorpions, but the familiar drug of alcohol (aggravated by bad diet and lack of exercise).
Hoisting himself up on a step ladder above the noisy elbow-to-elbow crowd, he gave a rousing speech laced with his trademark wit and intriguing brand of Republican populism ("I'm a conservative, but I'm not mad at anybody, " he likes to say).
The British tabloids have repeatedly fulminated about the "madness" of Polish workers in Britain whose children back in Poland receive British child benefit payments: which is not mad at all, but legal and reasonable, as their fathers are working legally in Britain and paying their taxes and National Insurance contributions.
Given the negative externalities associated with consuming alcohol, however, the movement to higher priced, heavier-tasting, craft beers that are not guzzled like Mad Dog might not be a bad thing.
Back when the prospects of marriage equality were dimmer I advised Robin and Terry to not get mad, but rather get even.
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There is a second fascinating question too: how and when does it become clear that markets are stressed not for mad irrational reasons but because banks are in fact insolvent or bust?
"I would be mad not to take that fight and knock him out, " said Haye.
The Willis, not dead but mad, wore asylum shifts, the lacquered flip hairdos of their previous lives as party guests exchanged for wild, torn wigs.
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They're not looking very hard for mad cow disease, and so they're not finding it very often.
At the moment, the South Koreans do not, due to Mad Cow concerns, allow the importation of beef from cattle 30 months or older.
Most of us are not interested in what mad thoughts drove Madoff to steal or justify the theft, but what could have been done to prevent it.
Contemporary fiction does not make heroes out of mad outsiders, even though the theme of alienation is still around.
It is not Africa that drives her mad, but her dead children, one stillborn, one killed by meningitis, one drowned.
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But whether Palmer has the equivalent of an over-subscribed Kickstarter on his hands or not, his project, mad as it seems, has captured the popular imagination.
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The fifth series of US ad agency drama Mad Men will not hit TV screens before March 2012 because of stalled contract talks with its creator.
But they're not talking about the "Mad Men"-era Velveeta-and-bacon-bits version.
True or not, it was a sound excuse not to join the seemingly mad Icelanders hurling themselves into the 3.5C (38F) water of Reykjavik harbour on a pitch dark November evening.
If you're one of many Americans who thinks casualty insurance is too expensive, or whose coverage was made pricier or even canceled because you filed a small but meritorious claim, the amazing saga of Rex DeGeorge will make you boiling mad, and not just at him.
Her utterances would indeed be mad if they had not been made in the context of the present debate in the Conservative Party about relations with the European Union.
Lest there be any lingering doubt, however, that politicians need the sort of pointed reminder the Minutemen are currently offering that, as they say in the movies, the American people are "mad as hell and not going to take it any more, " consider the likely scenario on the floor of the United States Senate this week.
The Turks simply did not think that their opponent would be mad enough to come at them from the desert.
BMW, the presenting sponsor of the recent season premiere of Mad Men is nothing if not focused on the idea of the perfect driving experience.
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.
Not much information seems to be available about Mad Max, who may recently have switched to the AIP from the Citizens Party.
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Findings like this will not hold back Britain's measurement-mad government.
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