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He gave a fascinating talk about his adventures, complete with clips of him floating around, catching bubbles in his mouth, and so on.
News of price increase enriches the early investors, creating word-of-mouth stories about their successes, which stir envy and interest.
The Great Leap Forward had aspects of a Ponzi scheme, an investment fraud which attempts to draw in successive rounds of investors through word-of-mouth tales of outsize returns.
Before you start weeping in sympathy with the farmer, ask yourself one question: what would have been the fate of the lambs if there had been no outbreak of foot and mouth disease?
The disease causes a temporary loss of production, and once foot and mouth disease is established in a country, other countries will prohibit the importation of its meat and dairy products because they don't want the disease to spread it to their animals.
This makes policy opinions that come straight from the horse's mouth almost uniquely valuable.
But Musharraf has good reasons to talk out of both sides of his mouth at this stage.
Having faced successive contamination crises in recent years--first BSE and then hoof and mouth disease--we feel particularly insecure about food.
He grumbles that Clinton hardly opened her mouth, which he interprets to mean that his plea was not well received.
Responses to a survey that my colleague Karl Case and I conducted in 1988 during the US boom revealed that casual word-of-mouth transmission of emotional excitement played a big role in purchasing decisions.
Indeed, word-of-mouth transmission of excitement about real estate prices is nearly as prevalent now as in 1988.
During his victorious campaign his advisors kept his mouth shut on everything but trivialities.
It might be expensive to compensate all potential losers, but we must put our money where our mouth is; if a reform is certain to pay off handsomely, it will pay for the buy-offs, and more.
Russia knows that when it comes to conducting a serious foreign and security policy, Europe is all mouth.
Indeed, it also grossly neglected to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, allowing the disease to spread out of control.
These facts should be there to allow those people who will look at them to do so, and to encourage them to spread the information via word of mouth to others with whom they are acquainted.
They put a gun in her mouth, beat her savagely, raped her, and dumped her on the roadside.
Yet talk is cheap, and the open-mouth policy of (generally pro-trade) pronouncements has not been matched by action.