Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American industries are currently more merger mad than banking. This year alone, scores of banks and savings and loan associations have joined forces with other institutions. Last week the fever spread all the way from New York City to Texas. First, Chemical New York, whose $56 billion in assets make it the seventh largest U.S. bank holding company, agreed to acquire Houston's Texas Commerce Bancshares (assets: $18.9 billion) for $1.19 billion. If completed, the merger will be among the biggest in U.S. banking history and will create the fourth largest bank company, behind Citicorp, BankAmerica and Chase Manhattan...
Craig remembers an incident in `Justice'--Moral Reasoning 22--when the section was discussing poverty. "Someone said if there was a poor man with 10 kids, and he needed money, then of course he would kill someone to get it. I didn't get mad, but I was saddened that she was so deluded...
...concentrate solely on the offensive aspects of SDI. In any case, if the U.S. were to deploy the Strategic Defense-Offense Initiative, we would have spent hundreds of billions of dollars--yet would have gone right back to where we started from. Back to mutually assured destruction, the MAD doctrine raised to the power of two. We would still be hostages of our own destructive technology...
...needed was to make a mad dash...
...cataloged his work, a habit for which art historians, wishing Cezanne had done the same, have long been grateful. And in October 1889 he summed up the relation between his paintings and his illness in one piercing metaphor: "I am feeling well just now . . . I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible -- and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste...