Word: fever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While most U.S. corporations are continually on the prowl for ripe acquisition possibilities, merger fever is just beginning to infect Britain, which still abounds with inefficient, low-profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...
...investor, put and call options have always ranked as one of the stock market's more unfathomable sideshows. Despite a lingering taint as a game best fit for crapshooters, the option business this year has swelled to unprecedented size in line with both Wall Street's speculative fever and the sharp rise in total trading. Last month the volume of options written so far in 1967 climbed to 16,264,900 shares, eclipsing the old record of 15,418,200 shares...
With respect to proposition two, Potomac fever became a liberal disease under the New Deal, of course, and it has turned out not only to be catching, but to be congenital, having somehow worked into the gene structure itself. The syndrome derives from one fact and two theories. I shall argue that the fact is correct but irrelevant, and that the theories are wrong...
...Pope Paul VI, 69, with a cold, intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that he suffered from...
...picture nonetheless remains a hysterical hybrid of cinema and opera, a Chinese fever dream of Madame Butterfly when she was just a caterpillar. Still, it is a heartening affirmation that Hong Kong is holding out against the gongs and tongs of its mainland enemies. In their island bastion, Producer Run Run Shaw and his sibling Run Me grind out 40 such Chinese films a year, have become so successful that they now own the biggest show-business empire in Asia. Their movies may be tragedies, but with 132 movie houses and seven amusement parks, the Shaws continue to enjoy...