Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That droves of high-school students shell out $600 for this instruction indicates the extent of SAT-mania. Although some colleges, such as Harvard, weigh the SAT only moderately in the admissions process, high-school students and their families see the SAT as the golden key to college...
...leading academic institution, Harvard should act immediately to change this harmful public perception. If Harvard stopped using the SAT as a criterion for admission, other institutions would follow and the mania so prevalent among high school students would ease...
...further surprises, such as the gritty and beautifully painted domestic dramas of Fausto Pirandello (1889-1975) and the best of all younger Duchampians, Piero Manzoni (1933-63), whose balloon full of artist's breath and cans full of artist's feces are wonderfully prophetic satires on a market mania whose present inflation he could scarcely have imagined...
...trials in Iran have already been completed. This is no surprise considering that the Iranian judicial system dispenses with any testimony from the defense. Luckily, since a local version of Olliemania (Ali-mania) swept Iran, the Holy Court of Ayatollahs decided to break with tradition and hold a public trial. Special couriers have smuggled transcripts of this trial to the West, offering Americans a rare glimpse into the bizarre world of Persian justice. Printed below are highlights from the case, "Treacherous Infidels v. Holy State of Iran...
Loopholes in the campaign reform laws have helped business donors make the 1988 election the most free- spending in history. -- A new wave of merger mania...