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Stock Market Rout Has Trump Fixated on Fed Chair Powell

• President Trump has unabashedly hitched his political fortunes to a rising stock market.
• Now, with stock prices in retreat, he has become fixated on the idea that Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is to blame.

For nearly 80 days, young Hong Kongers occupied major roads in a desperate bid for democracy. What did they achieve?

Watch On China with Kristie Lu Stout today at 5:30 PM HKT / 9:30 AM GMT / 4:30 AM EST for CNN's report on the Occupy Generation.

 Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She begins her investigation. Larry insists she is becoming too fixated on their neighbor as all of the irregularities seem to have simple non-homicidal explanations. Ted, a recently divorced friend helps her investigation and Larry begins to become jealous of their relationship and agrees to help her. Written by John Vogel   


Murdoch agrees to pay damages in news hacking cases

	Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers will pay damages to 36 of the plaintiffs in the phone hacking case that has fixated British media since July when the tabloid News of the World was shuttered.

A Fluid Protest Movement Finds a Forum to Match

By NOAM COHEN

Pastebin, a Web site originally for programmers, has provided a way to share information about the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Wall St. Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ 20 minutes ago

While much of the country remains fixated on the bleak employment picture, hiring is beginning to pick up in the place that led the economy into recession.

fixate

v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.

v.tr.

1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
3. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: "TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything" (Jay Walljasper).
4. Psychology.
   1. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
   2. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

v.intr.

1. To focus the eyes or attention.
2. Psychology.
   1. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
   2. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

fixate

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fixated

[形]（…に）執着した((on ...)).

occupy

(ŏk'yə-pī')
tr.v., -pied, -py·ing, -pies.

1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.
2. To dwell or reside in.
3. To hold or fill (an office or position).
4. To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest.
5. To engage or employ the attention or concentration of: occupied the children with coloring books.

[Middle English occupien, alteration of Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre, to seize : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + capere, to take.]

occupier oc'cu·pi'er n.

preoccupy

(prē-ŏk'yə-pī')
tr.v., -pied, -py·ing, -pies.

1. To occupy completely the mind or attention of; engross. See synonyms at monopolize.
2. To occupy or take possession of in advance or before another.