Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They needn't have fretted about money. Millennium has played to 98% of capacity and repaid a third of its investment. And as for the supposedly easy part, mounting the second half? One $2 million nightmare later, after daily rewrites, stagehand mania, 49 foregone performances (to the occasional rage of ticketholders who traveled from as far as Maine) and cuts of nearly an hour once Perestroika was already in previews, the most awaited -- and beleaguered -- dramatic event of the Broadway season officially opened last week. If less profound than it pretends to be and a bit repetitively in love with...
...current conspiracy mania surrounding the assassination reflects all of these factors. For young people, it may be the only way to get a piece of the Kennedy action. Since we were not around to prevent his death, perhaps we can set it right by discovering who really did it. But it is also an indication of our desire to see Kennedy's death in epic terms: a battle between the forces of good and evil, in which the evil has yet to be unveiled...
...where will a surge of job-creating growth come from? In the short run, at least, the dominant employment trend is going in the opposite direction. The nation's corporate goliaths are continuing, and even intensifying, the downsizing mania. Even companies that are still profitable: Procter & Gamble and General Electric. And even companies that have already been through one or two spasms of shrinkage. The latest survey by the American Management Association of 8,000 of its members showed that 47% reduced their staffs during the 12 months ended last June, a trifle more than...
FINANCE: Watch Out for IPO Mania...
...love this idea about ESPN2. Now I can watch Wrestle Mania IX without having to shell out big bucks...