Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cash bounty of $100 to any customer who brings in a Mediterranean fruit fly, dead or alive. The hot novelty item in San Francisco gift shops is a Medfly encased in a clear plastic apple. From Silicon Valley's computer whizzes comes a new video game called Medfly Mania: to stem a tide of electronic insects, the players must choose among competing insect-killing strategies while dealing with such all too real obstacles as bad weather, helicopter failures and the accidental release of fertile male flies...
...visitor a sense of how the ancients lived when at home-when they came off their plinths, shed their cuirasses hérdïques and settled down with their wine cups and mild painted pornography, no longer behaving like noble Romans. Naples rapidly became the center of a mania for the antique, and neoclassicism was a direct result; archaeology exerted a pressure on contemporary art that exceeded even the discoveries of the Renaissance...
...means is media mania limited to tycoons or luminaries. For about $7,000, School Administrator Carl Pasco ARCE has furnished his North Chicago home with a Kloss TV projector, a complete stereo system, subscription TV and a 300-record library. He plans all his entertainment around the video room, inviting friends and following up dinner with a chaser of a Katharine Hepburn movie or Bette Midler special. Says Bachelor Pasco: "Everyone's entitled to an , indulgence...
...fierce competition for Conoco is only the latest manifestation of the merger mania that is sweeping the U.S. This year alone, seven deals each worth $2 billion or more have been started or completed. Like baseball club owners plucking off free agents, corporate captains are choosing up sides in a wild scramble that could bring significant shifts in the balance of power throughout U.S. industry. The Reagan Administration seems to be encouraging the merger makers, and Attorney General William French Smith proclaims, "Bigness does not necessarily mean badness...
...editions of some tests to reflect declining scores. A student above this year's norm is likely to be below the norm of, say, 15 years ago. Skeptics also complain that teachers are drilling students on test skills instead of real reading and writing. Disgusted by the cramming mania, one Missouri superintendent recommended that schools in his district refrain from "preparing for the Super Bowl...