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...during the past five years, these schools have had to fight as never before to keep even basic work in issues far removed from national security free from the new dissent-quashing mania. Among contracts recently offered to Harvard for unclassified research without rights of immediate publication are "International Comparison of Health Science Policies" for National Institutes of Health and "Study on Changing Economic Conditions of Cities" for Housing and Urban Development...
...York's Lotto Lunacy recalls the mania that swept Illinois last year when its lottery prize reached $40 million. The craze is spreading. Twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia either already run lotteries or have plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come...
...Lotto mania grips New York with get-rich-quick fever...
Corporations too have been dashing into debt. "Most of the borrowing increase by corporations has been the result of takeover mania," says William Cornish, executive vice president of Chicago's Duff & Phelps, a securities research firm. "Either companies want to add to their holdings or they fear that someone wants to take them over." In evading Raiders Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens, Phillips Petroleum took on $4.5 billion in new loans. It now plans to sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf...
...most frightening manifestation of this dread disease is what I've come to call temperature mania." It's that everwhelming desire, nay passion, to know the exact temperature in both Fahrenhett and Celsius. The worth of everyday comes to be measured in degrees and the mention of rain can throw a damper (pun intended) on the entire week Forget papers, studying for finals, even extracurriculars. What really counts is that it is sunny and warm and the smell of spring...