Word: feverishness
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Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land . . . and they guarded with guns the land they had stolen . . . Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners...
...brawler whose father is in prison for murder. "Oliver played an incessant barrage of wild music to get you going. The crew would jam the music, then fire shotguns into the air." All the actors felt this electricity, like a searchlight or a cattle prod. "Oliver shot at a feverish pace," Sizemore says, "54 days and no standing around. It was managed chaos...
...action is hardly confined to corporate behemoths. Merger mania has been raging just as strongly among smaller firms such as management consultants, environmental engineers and even funeral homes. The dealmaking is particularly feverish among medium-size makers of components like auto parts. "Throughout all of U.S. industry, and particularly in the automotive sector, the trend is clearly toward reducing the number of suppliers you want to do business with," says Robert Eaton, Chrysler's chairman and CEO. So suppliers are rushing to team up with one another and thus increase their chances of remaining in business...
Camus is once again intriguing literary Paris. "His feverish voice is throughout," writes critic Francoise Giroud, "a voice that, at times, pierces your heart." In the newsmagazine Le Point, Jacques-Pierre Amette declares that "the voice of Camus, more resonant than ever in its trembling solemnity, addresses itself to today's generation." The book has already run through seven printings and sold more than 130,000 copies. Some 20 foreign publishers are scrambling for translation rights. Which raises a question. Why this excitement over a rough draft of a partial novel by an author who died 34 years ago? Even...