Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people at Orion Pictures, however--caught up in the growing Hollywood mania for serials--had other ideas. Remember the flashbacks in the original? You know, where the previous inhabitants were slaughtered by their son? You got it. Amityville Horror II: The Possession tells their story. The sequel is actually a prequel...
Unfortunately, the cover-story focus on "Merger Mania" has long obscured the fact that few such pairings are even remotely friendly partnerships. More often, they are one-sided takeovers by well-heeled companies determined to expand. Even when a company is saved from unwanted takeover by the intervention of a more desirable "white knight" purchaser, results aren't necessarily cheery. Employees of Conoco now say that life under Du Pont is far from fun, citing in particular the chemical giant's nasty job shake-ups and layoffs, and its sudden imposition of inconsiderate work rules...
...years" as revitalized cities repay the loans. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of Chicago's self-help Operation PUSH, charged that before Reagan, federal programs for the cities were "humane, sensible, broadly based," while under Reagan they are "anti-poor, anti-worker, antiblack, part of a meanness mania against the masses...
Though Reagan Administration critics quickly attacked the new rules as too lenient to Big Business, there seems little likelihood that the regulations will unleash a new wave of Wall Street merger mania. They actually just put down in a more formal fashion the policy followed by the Reagan Administration during the past year and a half...
...California student sued her university for $125,000 for giving her a B+ in a course instead of an A -. Says Philip Moots, special counsel to Ohio State University, which, like many other institutions, is becoming increasingly familiar with what an Ohio State commencement speaker described as "litigation mania": "Today's students flunk...