They skip meals, eat processed foods at their computers, binge on Starbucks and crash from sugar and caffeine highs.
Governments binge on spending during booms and cut back harshly during busts.
It suggests fresh possibilities for the medium, feeding an audience that has already been trained to binge on quality TV in DVD form.
Google started this binge on maps and "mash-ups"--loading simple maps with extra information--last June, and Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have recently helped fuel it with features of their own.
The corporate world is ending a five-year binge on capital spending, which has left it with a much higher ratio of fixed costs than when we started this recovery in 1991.
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Then they went on a buying binge that left Loewen on the brink of bankruptcy and Service Corp. saddled with rising costs and falling earnings.
At its heart was a borrowing binge, based on the expectation that rapid growth in profits, share prices and wages would continue indefinitely.
Many people who binge go long periods of time in between without eating to try to save calories, which can lead to more binge eating later on.
These are all encouraging for the pre-Christmas buying binge that gets started on Friday.
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Bobby, on a binge and still dressed only in his long-handles, cackled, hopped, and did a do-si-do.
An economy that has been on a binge will inevitably suffer indigestion.
With Malvinder now chief executive, company on acquisition binge.
In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.
Indian power firms have lately been on a buying binge of coal assets overseas.
But rather than splurge on a Mercedes, in January the self-employed 32-year-old went on a savings binge.
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Tata Consultancy is on a growth binge, hiring 37, 613 employees last fiscal year.
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Instead, it is on a hiring binge: 1, 700 people will be added to its proprietary sales force of 7, 800.
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Not surprisingly, Georgia-Pacific and other paper companies have gone on an acquisition binge.
In the recent boom, American households and firms went on a borrowing binge.
He notes apache has been on an acquisiton binge, which should add significant future opportunities in its core regions of operations.
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Does anyone know of other companies that are on a hiring binge?
They do this either because they are small or, like sizable CNL, are on a spending binge and need to attract equity capital.
Newspaper reports said he had trashed a London hotel while on a drinking binge and had subsequently checked into hospital with liver problems.
Obviously, Apple is trying to decide how best to use its cash hoard, whether in stock buybacks, dividend hikes, or going on an acquisition binge.
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And since Asian households and firms had not previously been on a borrowing binge (South Korea is an exception), they can afford to borrow more.
In contrast to the 1990s, when many blue-chip firms went on a spending binge, big firms were generally in decent financial shape going into the crunch.
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.
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