For so many in our country -- the homeless, and the fatherless, the addicted -- the need is great.
They tax habits, such as smoking and drinking, more than luxuries, because the addicted or habituated will buy at almost any price.
But by then the firm was addicted to the stuff, using it as raw material for collateralized debt obligations it could package and sell for rich fees.
One possibility: Because the people who are addicted enough to the Internet to use in-flight WiFi are probably the same kind people who, given the right amount of boredom, could end up addicted to other fine technology products.
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And even if you're not one of the 30 million addicted viewers of the Fox TV show, you've probably heard one of Hudson's musical tricks: melisma.
Or, their monetarist cousins at the Fed addicted to low interest rates.
The living, biorigged buildings which, like the Hosts, have become addicted to the missing EzRa.
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The result is that for the affluent and spa-addicted, the idea of a home spa is becoming less a pipe dream and more an indulgent reality.
"Obviously the entire society is addicted to fossil fuels, and the reason that we're fractivists is to try to move toward a renewable economy, " Lennon said.
Like an addict, the first step is to admit you are addicted to the nuance, suggestion and inference surrounding all the reasons why the markets are reacting as they are right now.
And the longer an economy stays addicted to inflation, the harder the eventual debt deflation will become.
Arum realized he'd left his phone back at the hotel, though he wasn't exactly addicted to the device.
The government, which was fighting wars abroad, became as addicted to the revenue from gin taxes.
The government, which was fighting wars abroad, became as addicted to the revenue from gin taxes as states are today to the revenue from tobacco.
While Kodak invented many of the core technologies underlying digital cameras, its management was too addicted to the steady flow of fat profits from its film, paper, and chemical franchises to risk cannibalizing it.
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While folks have been receiving various forms of punishment after jacking somebody's lingering WiFi signal without consent, it looks like the poor internet-addicted teenager from Singapore just barely missed out on the maximum fine.
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The IMF remains addicted to currency devaluation, which invariably retards economic recovery and growth.
Life could get unpleasant for the biggest players addicted to robust growth (see box, p. 180).
An added benefit for the Gmail-addicted would be having an excuse to check your e-mail while cuddling.
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Life could get unpleasant for the biggest players addicted to robust growth.
The poll finds that 61% of respondents said in fact they are addicted to the Internet, while the other 39% said they could quit if they wanted to.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson challenged Mr Salmond over his government' implementation of the drugs strategy, highlighting the cost of methadone treatment the almost doubling of babies born to drug addicted mothers and the number of prisoners taking methadone reaching a record high.
The heroes, Sidney (Wesley Snipes) and Billy (Woody Harrelson), are addicted to the game.
The Internet polling site SodaHead.com this month asked their visitors this question: Are you addicted to the Internet?
Some 10% of the general population and 40% of 13-to-18-year-olds are addicted to the Net, says Dr. Kim Hyun Soo, 37, head of Korea's professional society for psychologists specialized in treating Internet addiction.
Treatment for obesity itself is not considered deductible even if many of those who are overweight equate being addicted to food in much the same way as drug addicts can be addicted to cocaine or heroine.
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But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.
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