Word: mania
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...continuing to spy on Russia, Ames' arrest proves that America is no innocent bystander when it comes to espionage. Yeltsin's chief spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, warned Washington against "returning to the psychology of the cold war and whipping up distrust and a new wave of spy mania...
...fight was a quintessential '90s struggle that reflected the merger mania sweeping the communications industry and the quest for films, TV shows and other programming to run on the much anticipated electronic superhighway. Companies now feel compelled to bulk up to colossal size to compete with giants like Time Warner or huge telephone-cable-TV combines like the proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications...
...1970s: The Sequel." All around us--from bellbottoms and platform shoes to huge, scary sideburns, from movies like "Dazed and Confused" to "My Girl ," from Lenny Kravitz to the return of "disco-mania"--the 1970s are back...
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...
...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...