As I say to my children whenever they throw a temper tantrum: tough noogies.

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It's no temper tantrum, and it is not, in any sense, a parting shot at his own administration.

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"He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much as he used to, " says a senior White House official.

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But if his campaign against Israel wasn't driven by a presidential temper tantrum, and it isn't aimed at promoting peace what explains it?

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More than once was I pulled over by cops because I carried a 2 year old throwing a temper tantrum into a car.

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The woman US President Barack Obama has empowered to lead the West's negotiations with Iran regarding its illicit nuclear weapons program stood at the podium in the European Parliament and threw an anti-Israel temper tantrum.

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The market had its own short-lived temper tantrum this week, with the VIX spiking about 35% within hours on Monday in response to the Italian election and the SPX booked its biggest one-day loss of the year.

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Keep in mind that because mania is only a word we use to describe certain types of behavior and emotions, there is no clear answer to your question of where mania stops and a temper tantrum begins.

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My soul had thrown a temper tantrum.

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But a temper tantrum didn't deter Amidor.

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McCain's future, in large measure, will depend on whether the voters in Michigan see his words through the prism of Theodore Roosevelt -- the heroic victim of dirty pool -- or through the prism of Bob Dole -- the snappish temper tantrum of a sore loser.

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You have done a nice job of describing how one type of manic episode looks, but in suggesting that what you see might be a temper tantrum you have also identified the challenge that faces us every time we try to give a name to psychiatric troubles.

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Kurt Hellstrom , CEO of Sweden's beleaguered wireless concern Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ), has thrown a temper tantrum, threatening to bail out of the company's joint venture with Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) if sales of mobile phones don't start picking up soon.

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