Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supercharged stock market that has made IPOs the hottest way to raise money in the 1990s, just as junk bonds and cheap credit fueled the stock boom of a decade ago. The junk binge left the U.S. with a colossal hangover of corporate debt, and the IPO fever inspires some worries about the country's financial and economic health. Among other things, it raises the issue of whether a casino-like mentality tends to lure investors into high-risk and even dubious new issues, or tempt start-ups to race to market before they are ready in hopes of cashing...
...purer vaccine against whooping cough has been shown to be just as effective--or even more so--as the current available vaccine in preventing the disease in infants. It also causes fewer of the troubling side effects, such as high fever, local inflammation and lethargy...
...course, the capital of cabin fever was the capital. Monday was the day the government was to reopen. But when the day arrived, the only open shop was the Supreme Court, with Justice David Souter catching a lift to work after failing to dig his Volkswagen Rabbit out of a drift. John Sturdivant, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, speculated, "It's kind of God's revenge on the craziness of Washington...
Nausea and fever from an apparent flu forced Pope John Paul II to miss the Christmas Day Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and cut short the traditional Urbi et Orbi Christmas message. Working on just three hours' sleep after his Christmas Eve midnight Mass, the 75-year-old Pontiff told the crowd in St. Peter's Square, "Even the Pope has his weaknesses. Yet I try to resist...
...Loker fever," said Adam R. Kovacevich '99, who was studying for Wednesday's Ec 10 hourly exam in one of the many nooks lining the Commons' south wall. "I'm really impressed with the job they did down here...