Word: freneticism
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Now, most people try to counter feelings of listlessness with activity, motion, movement. Yuppies seem to take this to an extreme and counter feelings of extreme ennui with extreme activity-i.e. violence; repress your IKEA-fueled angst long enough and it'll explode in your face like a computer...
At 31 Chin is about to make partner at Information Technology Ventures, a small but rising Palo Alto VC firm. Chin handles the firm's portfolio of seven Internet companies and scours the Valley for others to fund. It's a frenetic job, but Chin crackles with rapid-fire energy...
Known for their whirlwind of pulverizing beats, the Brothers roared into the town ready and willing to christen the new Avalon. And rock they did, oh yes. The show started off fast and furious with Surrender's "Hey Boy Hey Girl" and "Music: Response." This segued directly into the megasmash...
To an extent, today's frenetic cross-fertilization in the industrial-design world is nothing new. As Graves points out, architects from Michelangelo to Frank Lloyd Wright have designed candlesticks as well as cathedrals. Never before, though, has there been such competition to define consumers' lifestyles. "There's a feeling...
Tour operators have taken a different tack. An increasingly contentious wave of mergers and takeovers since 1997 has left 80% of the British package-holiday business in the hands of just four companies. Hotels started an era of frenetic consolidation slightly earlier. In 1997-98 more than $25 billion worth...