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...individuals haven't caught the same fever. They aren't doing much buying or selling, says Bob Adler at mutual-fund tracker AMG Data. But the swift tech rebound creates vulnerability for all. It breeds that old feeling of technology not as a business but a lottery. If the rally lasts much longer, there is a good chance that individuals will start buying tech again just when they should be doing some off-loading...
...Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game," raved a Crimson editorial in 1947. Every fall between 1947 and 1950 saw hundreds of students trooping out to the stadium to cheer on the varsity squad. And for the class of 1951, every fall of those four years saw the same disappointment...
...just the workers who are in danger. Some 6,000 villagers live around the 300-odd processing units, which operate in the area and spew out some 150,000 tons of mercury-laden slurry into the environment annually. Many of them are frightened, too. But such is the gold fever gripping Talawaan that they don't dare speak...
...fringes of the pop-culture world. A whole generation of talented rock composers steered clear of the theater--at least, the sort of theater where the band is in the pit, not on the stage, and the audience applauds politely from its seats. From Beatlemania to Saturday Night Fever, producers have looked for ways of bringing the music of rock's classic period to theater audiences. It's a smart commercial move: at their best, these shows can lure both the young (more apt to visit the theater if it disguises itself as a rock concert) and the getting...
What's fueling the high-rise fever is simple: excess cash. Enron's first-quarter revenues were up 281%, while Calpine's revenues and net income were each up more than 400%--even with California's deadbeat utility PG&E owing the company more than $300 million...