Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year was 1988, and election fever had hit my middle school. Perhaps envious of the public schools that actually got to close on election day and proudly house voting booths, someone came up with the idea of transforming our cafeteria into a fake polling place, complete with actual levers to pull. Statements of platforms were distributed, and we watched and discussed the debates in detail. As election day approached, I weighted my choices carefully and was a little nervous when I got to school that...
...Pressler fever is not exactly burning up the prairies. Despite his lofty education, Pressler has long had a reputation in Washington as an intellectual lightweight, a rap that is by now well known to the voters back home. And critics in South Dakota say their senior Senator, after 18 years of cozying up to lobbyists, has "gone Washington." Six years ago, he scraped by with a 19,000-vote victory against an underfunded Democrat...
...close to realization by July 16, when the Dow had tumbled as low as 5,182.31, off 10 percent from its May peak. But the Federal Reserve's decision to hold the line on interest rates reassured investors in September, bringing the current rise toward 6,000. Meanwhile, investment fever continues to rise as fast as the market. According to the Federal Reserve, last year for the first time in decades the value of household stockholdings outweighed home equity. More than one adult in three now owns stock directly, through a mutual fund or through a savings plan such...
...Harvard will be like in the months before the election. For those of you who missed it, either because you didn't have time to go or because you weren't interested, get involved. Watch a debate, presidential or senatorial. Go to the I.O.P. Hold a sign. Catch the fever...
What if several decades from now global warming causes such swings in temperature to occur more often? That possibility alarms marine scientists, because bleaching--the coral equivalent of running a fever--can be fatal. In 1983 a particularly severe bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden...