Bobby, on a binge and still dressed only in his long-handles, cackled, hopped, and did a do-si-do.
To get the economy going in late 2008, the central government ordered state financial institutions to go on a binge.
An economy that has been on a binge will inevitably suffer indigestion.
During the boom years, many firms went on a buying binge and a lot of the firms they acquired especially dotcoms are now worth only a fraction of the money paid for them.
But rather than splurge on a Mercedes, in January the self-employed 32-year-old went on a savings binge.
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Indian power firms have lately been on a buying binge of coal assets overseas.
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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In the recent boom, American households and firms went on a borrowing binge.
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.
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.
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.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency would go on a regulatory binge like nothing in modern U.S. history against traditional carbon-based sources of energy, coal in particular.
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.
Just when lenders were throwing their money around, companies were on a borrowing binge, not least because they had realised that debt was cheaper than equity, and decided that they could live with lower credit ratings.
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.
When Carlson was keen on the nation, it was on a free-market binge under Carlos Menem.
Spurred by a sudden drop in prices, Asians in the last two weeks have gone on a gold-buying binge.
Baseball in the 60s was a speed-taking free-for-all, football went on a decade long cocaine binge in the 80s.
Although he lacked capital, Singh went on a land-buying binge.
Company, a health-care consulting firm, estimates that when hospitals last went on a physician-acquisition binge in the late 1990s, productivity fell by as much as 35%.
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But eastern Europe and Russia have been hammered because local banks went on a foreign-borrowing binge, foreign banks piled into their markets (and piled out again) and because some countries lacked insurance policies against tough times.
With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.
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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