With harvests failing and food prices rising, a growing obsession with bride price is leading to daughters being perceived as little more than assets to be bought and sold at the best price.
But the change from Wall Street's previous obsession with rising oil prices prompts me to say "I told you so" to friends and confidants from the Middle East who thought prices were bound to stay structurally high based on the expectation that the end of "easy oil" would force investors to shift to more costly oil plays.
Develop an obsession with something random.
Running parallel with the move towards the more pop-orientated residencies is the rise of Vegas's obsession with the EDM DJ.
The lab is the brainchild of Rene Redzepi, whose quest at Noma for new flavors, whether from plants, fungi, lichen, or animal by-products, has given rise to an international obsession with foraging for new, questionably edible ingredients.
In a demographically young city, such gatherings can help a rising generation to overcome the old obsession with the past and use the local gift for story-telling in new ways, says Mark Nagurski, CultureTech's director.Tough political decisions will be needed to turn fine sentiments into jobs.
I can't explain the strategic obsession with Iraq why it rose to the top of people's priority list.
He attributes this to a number of factors including the obsession with technology-oriented innovation; rising inequality, stagnating education, and globalization.
Deniz Baykal, Kilicdaroglu's predecessor, imposed unity in 1992 only by giving the party a single focus: an obsession with the rise of a new conservative class.
O'Neill encounters his living children and haunting ghosts, his obsession with the rise of Hitler and the war, and many of his tempestuous— loving/hating encounters with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill.
