Word: mania
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While banks such as Nomura Holdings and Merrill Lynch tend to focus on large deals, like the $30 billion takeover that formed Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group or the $3.5 billion marriage of cosmetics company Kao with Kanebo Cosmetics, the M&A mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon...
...height of dotcom mania, a lot of folks found it easy to hold up the boss for a raise. ?Give me what I?m worth or I?ll pack up my family pictures and head to BigDreams.com,? went the threat. It worked for a while. Then BigDreams.com went bust, the economy went with it, and working stiffs have been pining for the glory days of easy job-hopping and fat pay hikes ever since. Are those days coming back...
...EDWARD HALLOWELL, A PSYCHIATRIST in Sudbury, Mass., has seen the fallout of multitasking mania: it walks through his door five days a week. Over the past decade, he says, he has seen a tenfold rise in the number of patients showing up with symptoms that closely resemble those of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), but of a work-induced variety. "They complained that they were more irritable than they wanted to be," he says. "Their productivity was declining. They couldn't get organized. They were making decisions in black-and-white, shoot-from-the-hip ways rather than giving things adequate...
Psychiatrist Hallowell offers some basic solutions to multitasking mania in a book to be published in April, titled CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. Among his suggestions: prioritize ruthlessly ("Cultivate the lilies, or the things that fulfill you," he says, "and cut the leeches, those that deplete you"), allot 30 minutes a day for thinking, relaxing or meditating, and get significant doses of what he calls vitamin C--the live connection to other people. "As much as we are connected electronically, we have disconnected interpersonally," he says. Compulsive screen sucking...
...segment transcends its shocking moments to become a nearly believable satire on the mania to stay young forever. Eating babies is slightly more extreme than injecting poison into your forehead, but the theme rings true. It has the strongest storytelling and characterization of the three shorts, and its feature-length origins are clear...