Truth is a heady wine, friend.

And this is a very heady place.

The heady days of conservative economics are over for now.

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God

In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities.

This is heady national rhetoric, and it was all put together in a great pageant

This is heady national rhetoric, and it was all put together in a great pageant launching the return.

These are heady times at the BoE (in the heart of the financial district of Ontario on Thames).

No doubt the euphoria of these heady days will recede as the difficult jobs of government and politics begin.

They are guilty of failing to face up to their own rebalancing during the heady days of the QE sugar high.

And 15 years later, there are 100 of them and 2,000 people on staff and it was just such heady times.

There is no doubt that gold s heady rise to the peak, from around 350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling.

Three decades later, millions of chastened Iranians wish they could relive those heady days differently their Pakistani counterparts would be wise to heed their hindsight.

The reality of life in today s China looks very different from the vantage point of a province far from the heady atmosphere of Beijing or Shanghai.

More troubling still is that Libya s violence reveals certain features of the Middle East that had been forgotten after the heady success in Tunis and Cairo.

Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit, discredited by spot fixing episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions.

Do heady times of struggle always give way to a somewhat deflating taste of victory? Am I merely a veteran wistfully reminiscing about the old days of struggle?

It was that sort of heady question about what counts that led me to take my CEO hat off for a week and fly off to the Himalayan peaks.

But the heady glow of America s return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region s principal security anchor in the face of China s strategic ambitions.

The Madonna like status of Cory Aquino in the Philippines was inspiring in the heady days of People Power, but did little to bolster the institutions of a secular democracy.

Against that background, it is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970 s to 2007.

We Hungarians, and Central Europe in general, have come far since those heady times, but the past 20 years have also given us much cause to question the path we took.

Indian GDP grew at heady rates of 8 10 per year between 2004 and 2007, a period that seemed to herald a decisive break from the anemic Hindu rate of growth.

In those heady days of 1990, only the greatest optimists, perhaps, only idealists, would have believed that within five years the Baltic countries would be independent, sovereign and free of foreign troops.

Back in the heady days of the 1940 s, Mohammed Ali Jinnah rallied a people to nationhood. Despite his Anglophone status and Victorian manners, he carved out a separate homeland for India s Muslims.

Yet today s heady talk of freedom cannot obscure the reality that the people s revolution has so far led only to a direct military takeover, with the decades old emergency law still in force and the country s political direction uncertain.

In short, many central bankers who served in the heady pre crisis years have much to answer for. Given their excessive belief in unfettered markets, they turned a blind eye to palpable abuses, including predatory lending, and denied the existence of an obvious bubble.

He had seen the movement swell to more than nine million members in the heady days after the August 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike and, like the rest of the movement s leadership, had been interned when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and banned Solidarity 16 months later.

In the heady first months after it came to power, the Bush administration laid out a bold new vision that gave India a rising Asian democracy on China s border, proximate to the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean and to the epicenter of Islamist terrorism a starring role in US foreign policy.