Word: mania
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...market rises, plummets or flattens, whether it happens over one year or five, it will not undo changes that the boom has wrought in the relationship between homeowner and home. The tech crash and the market slump didn't erase the culture of stocks. Even after day-trading mania disappeared, there remained a broad class of people buying stocks and mutual funds who were more knowledgeable than they used to be about the market and more closely attuned to business news...
...giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97, and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before the carnage of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Today, as always, there are pockets of mania that could well end in mayhem?from the Shanghai property boom to delirious foreign investment in overheated Indian midcap stocks...
Betting on Consolidation After e-commerce boom and bust comes merger mania: that was the sense last week as online travel firm lastminute.com - the money-losing, London-based icon of the Internet frenzy - agreed to a $1.1 billion takeover by Texas-based Sabre Holdings, owner of rival Travelocity. The grounds? While there's room for growth in Europe 's Web-based travel sector - as little as 10% of trips are currently booked online in the region - there's no longer room for everyone. Price pressure from major hotels' and airlines' own online operations means Web-based operators "need...
...Tamagotchi mania...
...recently discovered an unexpected ally in my mercury mania: Christian conservatives. It seems that segments of the evangelical community are starting to view environmentalism--or, as they prefer to call it, "creation care"--as part of their biblical mandate. But getting the ground troops mobilized behind a cause long scorned as touchy-feely nonsense requires a bit of creativity. (Witness the flop of the 2002 "What would Jesus drive?" campaign.) Thus some religious leaders are linking pollution to the hot-button issue of unborn tots, who, after all, tend to be the most vulnerable to environmental toxins...