FORBES: The Obesity Police Turn A Solvable Problem Into A Needless War
The irony in all this -- particularly the yearning for the "good-old days, " when life was simpler and money less important -- is how antithetical the nostalgia is to some core Maoist beliefs.
But back in the good-old-days (for the drug industry) in the mid-1990s, the FDA was far less stringent about safety of obesity drugs that may be used by millions.
In the good old days--if you were a burglar--all you had to worry about was setting off an alarm.
Remember the good old days when co-workers used to gather around the proverbial water cooler to discuss and debate the world of sports?
Having enjoyed profit margins as fat as 60% in the 1993-1995 boom, DRAM makers are still hoping the good old days will soon return.
The boss of one bank reports that small-business applications are running at around ten a day, down from 250-300 in the good old days.
Besides, were the good old days not as defense-tastic as we think?
Those in the industry who think that Windows 8 are going to re-invigorate PC sales or bring levels back to the good old days are dreaming.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
BBC: A Point of View: Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be
Even though we may wax nostalgic for the good old days of vinyl and DVDs and the dust-collectors in the garage, just remember that owning an album never bestowed unlimited rights.
The good old days of analytics models that are as simple as a six-sided cube have melted away.
Plenty of local business-folk yearn for a new Karajan, who they reckon would bring back the good old days when the town was awash with visitors brandishing gold credit cards.
This, together with Hong Kong's deteriorating English-language skills, still-high costs and ever-thickening air pollution, had led some in the city to wonder whether the good old days would ever return.
"If it rains for a couple more days maybe that's a good thing for me, " the 29-year-old told reporters.
This nonsensical yearning for the Good Old Days of naturally bleak weather, famine, and the Black Plague has its roots in the near-religious myth that anything humans do to affect the natural course of Mother Earth is evil and wrong.
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