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  • r  in a compulsive manner
    he cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk
News & Articles

  • Harry Lewis, founder of Hamburger Hamlet, dies
    LOS ANGELES — Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93. The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/1bqkpkA ) reports Lewis died Sunday at a convalescent home in Beverly Hills. His son, Adam, tells the newspaper that his father was compulsively driven by attention to detail and would cook 30 hamburgers ...
    June 11, 2013 - Boston Herald
  • Our National Smartphone Addiction Is Just Getting Started
    For those of us who make our living tapping out words on the Internet and compulsively rechecking Twitter, it's sometimes easy to forget that there's a large chunk of the country for whom a phone really ...
    June 6, 2013 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Deepti Hajela in FOXNews
    The AP's Deepti Hajela called the seventh and final Potter a "classic," writing that Rowling "completes her entertaining, compulsively readable series with a book that is both heartbreaking and hopeful, one that left this reader sad to say goodbye...
  • Rafael Correa in CNNMoney.com
    Correa said former government officials had committed "treason," and that bankers "compulsively induced, threatened, bribed and pressured with all their might to push their loans and make their juicy commissions."
  • Irving Howe in Pajamas Media (blog)
    When a divorcing spouse makes public vulgar, insulting, and humiliating comments about the other, children are devastated and tend to either compulsively go towards the attacked party to defend them; or compulsively go towards the attacking parent... Dr Laura Schlessinger http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Schlessinger&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGB6LEMIuApVUn6i8GQmMR3RQUhOQ Washington Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/21/dr-laura-what-about-madonnas-children/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHbZRPjs2s-9l2OfI4tHeKQEOQhHQ Oct 21, 2008 20471 28337 compulsiveness Among 'uptown intellectuals,'" Irving Howe wrote "there was this feeling of shock and dismay, and I don't remember anyone judging him. The feeling was that he'd been driven to this by compulsiveness, by madness. He was seen as a victim."

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