The contagion affecting News Corp has spread rapidly in the US.
Two cases of this destructive but fortunately uncommon contagion affected ambitious young researchers and their equally ambitious mentors.
(Newyorkitis, a 1901 book explained, was a contagion affecting a large percentage of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island; the illness arose from an unhealthy addiction to noisy environs).
"Europe's banks are suffering from a contagion affect from the debt crisis," said Jonathan Newman, a banking analyst in London at the investment management firm Brewin Dolphin.
(Newyorkitis, a 1901 book explained, was a contagion affecting a large percentage of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island; the illness arose from an unhealthy addiction to noisy environs). Rice argued that the city's poor, particularly the insane and the sick, confined in public hospitals along the East River, on Randall's and Blackwell's islands, suffered miserably on account of tugboat noise.
There is talk too of a contagion affecting markets in Europe, a credit crisis and this potentially being a catalyst for a Black Swan-like event.
12. Negative emotional spirals can be attributed to reasons such as emotional contagion, feeling affect vicariously and behavioral entrainment; see J.R. Kelly and S.G.
Estonia is entering the eurozone just as its future looks horribly uncertain, thanks to the parlous financial positions of Greece, Ireland and Portugal and the risk that "contagion" will affect Spain and even Italy.
There is a risk that contagion could affect Ireland, Italy, Portugal or Spain, the other euro-area countries with some mixture of big budget deficits, poor growth prospects and high debts.Of these, Portugal and Spain have most in common with Greece, because of their reliance on foreigners' savings.
