Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Come Undone was rediscovered. Even so, his life as a solitary writer was tossed upside down. "When Oprah came tapping at the biosphere door, it was a kick," he says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...
...Saturday Night Fever makes John Travolta, the Bee Gees and white suits cool...
Although the number of new cases of Lyme seemed to have peaked in the U.S. at 16,000 in 1996, public health officials are warning that this year's total could soar. Since the first mysterious outbreak of arthritis-like pain and fever among residents near the Connecticut community of Lyme in 1975, at least 100,000 Americans have been infected with the disease. Now endemic throughout the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and the West Coast, Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks...
...loosening up and having a good time was thegoal, the Cabot formal definitely satisfied.Combining the dance fever of Mather with a morestylized club atmosphere, the scene at LansdownePlayhouse could easily have passed as a musicvideo outtake...
Lately, corporate managers have been selling at a fever pace, a sign that they believe the market is vulnerable. For months, insiders (corporate officers required by law to report when they buy or sell their company's shares) have been selling more than three shares for every one that they buy--the highest level in a decade, says Bob Gabele, who tracks such activity for CDA/InvestNet. "The selling has been broad and active for several quarters," Gabele says. "It really does look like a trend." Even at such blue-chip companies as GE and Procter & Gamble, where insiders rarely sell...