Word: craze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...N.Y.S.E.'S worst casualty of 1983 was Cincinnati's Baldwin-United, the piano maker turned insurance giant. After expanding too boldly into financial services, the company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop...
...clubs stoke the Who craze by holding auctions, selling Who paraphernalia, publishing newsletters and raising money for nonprofit TV stations so they can screen the series. Fund raising for the Doctor pulled in $40,000 in 90 minutes last March for Philadelphia's PBS station...
Peking's authorities have long frowned on dog owning. But over the past decade, says a resident, "the bored children of high officials started the dog craze, and slowly it became trendy." Less slowly, perhaps, dogs began defiling the capital's streets and unsettling its residents. "Dogs run about wildly, causing difficulties' for municipal sanitation," complained a health official. "There are even instances of hooligans training their pets to chase women, children and old people." Only circus troupes, scientific experimenters, police units and foreign residents, all of whom must pay $5 for vaccination and registration, will...
Surprisingly, the home-video craze has not yet reduced movie theater attendance, which is projected to increase 2% to 3% this year. In fact, Paramount has come up with a way to make cassette sales a boon to the box office. The Raiders tape contains tantalizing previews from a follow-up coming to theaters in May: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...mysteries these days appear in paperbacks or movies. The tale above scrolled up the screen of a personal computer. The story, titled Deadline, is part of the latest craze in home computing: programmed fiction. Machines that were used mainly for blasting aliens and calculating monthly budgets are now also churning through adventure tales and murder-mystery plots. "It's like reading a novel, only you are the protagonist," says Science-Fiction Writer Linda Bushyager. While arcade-style games like Pac Man are losing popularity, these complex programs are winning more and more fans. In Deadline, one of ten computer...