Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trek movies have earned a total of nearly $500 million at the box office. Videocassettes (of every series episode, as well as the movies) are so popular that most video stores devote an entire section to them. Star Trek is seen around the world in 75 countries, and Trek mania has hit many of them; the official Star Trek fan club in Britain has 18,000 members. Trek-related merchandise, ranging from T shirts and backpacks to a $2,200 brass replica of the Enterprise, has exploded in the past five years, with total revenues topping $1 billion. More than...
...Merger mania continued in the telecommunications industry. Long-distance phone company LDDS Communications proffered $2.5 billion in cash for WilTel, the long-distance unit of Williams Cos. The deal bolsters LDDS's ambitions to challenge AT&T, MCI and Sprint. Meanwhile, AT&T received federal court approval for a $12.6 billion plan to buy McCaw Cellular Communications, the country's largest wireless-phone company...
...action is hardly confined to corporate behemoths. Merger mania has been raging just as strongly among smaller firms such as management consultants, environmental engineers and even funeral homes. The dealmaking is particularly feverish among medium-size makers of components like auto parts. "Throughout all of U.S. industry, and particularly in the automotive sector, the trend is clearly toward reducing the number of suppliers you want to do business with," says Robert Eaton, Chrysler's chairman and CEO. So suppliers are rushing to team up with one another and thus increase their chances of remaining in business...
...cloud has always gathered around Colombia's soccer mania. Since Colombia's elimination two weeks ago, the team had received several anonymous threats. In 1989 a referee was killed, apparently by a group of gamblers linked to drug traffickers. This year there had been rumors, none substantiated, that some of the country's drug lords had wagered heavily against the national team. Before the U.S. game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez withdrew from play after his family received death threats...
...important artist for about 10 years, starting in the late 1920s. Nothing can take that away from him. Other Surrealists -- especially Max Ernst and Dali's fellow Catalan Joan Miro -- were greater magicians; but Dali's sharp, glaring, enameled visions of death, sexual failure and deliquescence, of displaced religious mania and creepy organic delight, left an ineradicable mark on our century when it, and he, were young. Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends. His soft watches will never cease to tick...