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...those operations to USAir for only $64.5 million. Mainly as a result of that sale, Midway posted a $139.2 million loss last year. Yet with completion of the sale expected next month, Midway chairman David Hinson insists "the worst is now behind us." In light of the fare-cutting mania that has recently gripped air carriers, Midway's 5,700 employees can only hope he is right...
Levin, who has written books on children's fascination with war play, conceived the survey after parents and teachers asked her to take a look at turtle mania. She conducted the study with Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an associate professor of education at Lesley College...
...stars who led them during the boom years with more conservative managers. Says Paul Ray Jr., an executive recruiter: "Instead of doing deals, now the emphasis is on cost control." On Wall Street during the past two years, more than 60,000 jobs have been lost as merger mania ended and the bull market stalled. Largely as a result, big accounting and law firms that served the merger makers have slashed their partnership rolls. Last month the accounting firm Peat Marwick abruptly dismissed 300 of its 1,875 partners, protecting profits by chopping highly compensated senior talent...
This decade mania is getting out of hand. Pundits had barely finished figuring out what distinguished the '80s from the '70s (now what was that difference again?) when they set about trying to characterize the '90s, a decade still in diapers: the "get real" decade; the Nervous '90s. How about the Name-Obsessed...
...mentality of addiction, of alcoholism, prevails in zones of American life even when no drugs are involved. Americans are addicted to television, a true enslavement, a dreary mania. When diversion is all, real life vanishes. Americans are addicted to the consumption of energy, to profligate plastics and convenience power in all its fuming, humming expressions -- cars, motorboats, air conditioners, home appliances. They are addicted to credit and debt, to mobility, to high speed. The American addictions tend to have this in common: a hope of painlessness...