Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, it is tempting to poke around, especially among the new features that appear with dizzying regularity. For example, during the height of the comet craze, CompuServe users could type GO HALLEY and shop electronically for comet locator maps, reading lists, Halley hats and a T shirt emblazoned with HEAVENLY BODY OF THE YEAR. They could also find directions to prime U.S. viewing spots, sign up for comet-watching ocean cruises, enter weekly comet . trivia quizzes and participate with dozens of other Halley's addicts in an onscreen round-table discussion of comet news and lore...
Students aren't the ones snapping up the latest technology craze, however; graduate students and professors are laying down $1539 and gobbling up Apple's new, more powerful machine, Terp said...
Meanwhile, a new craze seems to have afflicted several members of the team: dunking mania. After a long dunk drought, forwards Neil Phillips and Kyle Dodson each 'threw one down' during last Saturday's romp over Brandeis...
...corporate merger craze has taken some strange turns. Thwarted in a headline-making, five-month bid to take over CBS for $5.4 billion, Cable King Ted Turner consoled himself by buying a Hollywood studio instead. He paid $1.5 billion for MGM/UA Entertainment, whose library of 2,200 films includes such classics as Gone With the Wind and Singin' in the Rain...
...consolidation craze has created opportunities for sudden Croesus-style riches. For aiding Pantry Pride in its fight for Revlon, financial advisers and lawyers stand to gain more than $100 million. The winners include Drexel Burnham, which sold the junk bonds to finance the deal and is earning an estimated $60 million...