Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans. "They may have a negative reaction during the first few days," says Cleveland Infielder Alan Bannister. "But once baseball gets going again, things will get back to normal." Some fans, however, will not be won over so easily. Says St. Louis Police Officer Jerry Brindell: "The spring fever is gone." Others have sworn off the game forever. "I learned I could live without it," says former Yankee Rooter Carmen Santuzzi, 28. "I'll follow football, basketball, hockey, maybe even soccer, but you'll never catch me paying for a seat in Yankee Stadium again...
...continued to produce persons who mirror the national virtues." Adds Politics Professor Richard Rose of Scotland's University of Strathclyde: "There are those who are positive about the monarchy, and those who are lukewarm. There aren't many anti people." Especially now, when the prevailing wedding fever seems to have raised the public temperature way past lukewarm. Indeed, a survey published last week in the liberal Guardian showed that a resounding 76% of those polled felt the advantages of the monarchy outweigh its costs (estimated at a yearly $25 million) and that 67% considered that the big bundle...
Congressional critics, though, blame the Reagan Administration for creating a new atmosphere that encourages merger fever. The President appointed William Baxter, a Stanford law professor who firmly believes in the virtues of large-scale enterprises unfettered by excessive Government regulation, to be his antitrust chief in the Justice Department. Baxter's boss, Attorney General William French Smith, succinctly stated the new Adminstration's philosophy in an oft-quoted speech before the District of Columbia Bar. Said Smith: "Bigness in business is not necessarily badness. Efficient firms should not be hobbled under the guise of antitrust enforcement...
...Font's surprise foray shows that few companies or industries are immune to merger fever. As a result, the ranking of top U.S. firms has become almost as volatile as Billboard magazine's Hot 100 pop record chart. The strategies behind the mergers are as varied as the deals themselves. American Express, for example, grabbed the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage house on its way to becoming a one-stop financial service center. To enhance its power on grocery shelves, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands...
...childhood bouts of pneumonia and scarlet fever and was unable to walk until she was nine. But Wilma Rudolph overcame these obstacles to become the fastest woman in the world and win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics. At the opening in Washington last week of the National Portrait Gallery's new summer show, "Champions of American Sport," Rudolph, 41, stopped by a photograph of her Olympic victory in the 400-meter relay. When she is not working on her third book (on how to be a successful working mother), she is heading up the Olympic Experience Program...