Word: mania
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...staggering scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced it to the Latin mania a potu, meaning craziness from drink, with the r tossed in from the habitual inflection of the region. "The detective work involved is exciting--to weird people," says Hartman. The white-haired Cassidy, already hard at the second volume and, despite his years, determined to see the heroic work through...
...during the past five years, these schools have had to fight as never before to keep even basic work in issues far removed from national security free from the new dissent-quashing mania. Among contracts recently offered to Harvard for unclassified research without rights of immediate publication are "International Comparison of Health Science Policies" for National Institutes of Health and "Study on Changing Economic Conditions of Cities" for Housing and Urban Development...
...York's Lotto Lunacy recalls the mania that swept Illinois last year when its lottery prize reached $40 million. The craze is spreading. Twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia either already run lotteries or have plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come...
...Lotto mania grips New York with get-rich-quick fever...
Corporations too have been dashing into debt. "Most of the borrowing increase by corporations has been the result of takeover mania," says William Cornish, executive vice president of Chicago's Duff & Phelps, a securities research firm. "Either companies want to add to their holdings or they fear that someone wants to take them over." In evading Raiders Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens, Phillips Petroleum took on $4.5 billion in new loans. It now plans to sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf...