Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...England during the last World Cup, in 1990. I was spoiled by the uninterrupted television coverage and the stories of hundreds of British fans (goons) being arrested on the streets in Italy. This mania could never reach the States, I thought, despite the fact that so many kids play soccer...
Cinema: From Maverick and The Flintstones to Gomer Pyle and Mission: Impossible, rerun mania grips Hollywood...
...headquarters in Santa Monica, California, this summer, and MCA- Universal is pondering an expansion of the retail activities that are currently confined to its theme parks in California and Florida. But perhaps all the newcomers should ponder the fate of other studio retail ventures. At the apogee of Bart-mania, a Simpsons store opened in Los Angeles and quickly folded. Jay Ward, producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, has a tiny store on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, but it is no cash cow or money moose. Hanna- Barbera (The Flintstones, The Jetsons) operated two Los Angeles stores but closed them after...
...Hiss case made Nixon a national figure and launched him into a run for the Senate in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress who had served six years in the House as an ardent New Dealer. Since red hunting was a national mania in these Korean War days, Douglas foolishly tried to accuse Nixon of being soft on communism, and invented the name that haunted him for the rest of his life: Tricky Dick. But when it came to mudslinging, she was up against a champion. He called her the "pink lady" and declared that she was "pink...
...layoffs, of course, reflect primarily the downsizing mania of corporations feeling the lash of foreign competition. Their drive to cut costs and raise productivity has other discomforting results too. Companies are raising sales and production largely by working their remaining employees longer hours or at a faster pace. Morgan Stanley figures that 55% of the gain in output during the early stages of past recoveries came from increased productivity -- but for the first three years of this expansion the number...