These are poems of ardour and playfulness (one of them is spoken by his dog), an ongoing celebration.
Ardour Capital's Nasdeo says other traditional metrics, such as price-to-sales or price-to-book value, are not really much help either.
This month it has sought to douse the ardour with a sharp increase in the import tariff on gold.
Nor will things be much better if negotiations spill over into the presidency of Ireland, where ardour for integration has dampened.
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He will also hope that the opposition's ardour for unity may cool.
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His ardour may have been dampened by Telecom Italia's newish chairman, Franco Bernabe, who insisted that the Olivetti bid was too low to succeed.
None of this, however, has dampened the ardour of the government's romance with Brazil (whose central-bank chief, Arminio Fraga, is also on the advisory panel).
The Republicans look passionate but rudderless, mistaking ardour for strategy.
As for dampening our ardour for a successful agreement at the upcoming Doha round of trade talks, the new farm law, if anything, provides even greater impetus for our negotiators.
To the extent that the ardour of liberal American Jews has cooled, this is not because, as argued by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, two leading foreign-policy scholars, the end of the cold war made Israeli and American interests diverge.
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