Word: manias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordered by the Ministry of Health to sleuth out cases of cacoethes praescri-bendi (a mania for prescribing), Dr. James E. Struthers collected and reported some shockers to the British Medical Association...
...This is the situation that sparks the law graduate's summer mania: weeks of rule-stuffing at cram schools in preparation for the twice-yearly bar exams typically given in late summer and winter. Run by lawyers, judges and professors, cram schools are often big business. Before becoming a federal judge, New York Lawyer Harold Medina crammed 800 students for $28,000 a year. Medina's heir, New York's nonprofit Practising Law Institute, is now the biggest cram school, with three yearly sessions enrolling 1,800. At $75 tuition, it is also one of the cheapest...
...tbol often seems more important to Latin Americans than birth, marriage and death. It is the mania that lifts a campesino from the daily treadmill, that causes a President to put aside affairs of state and listen to a play-by play broadcast, that brings an entire city to a standstill on the afternoon of an important match. "They don't think it's a game. They think it's a war down there." says William Cox, president of the International Soccer League. And in a war it's not how you play the game...
Needled Agent. The Russian spy mania requires battalions of clerks to transcribe, translate and file what has been overheard, as well as "evaluators" to judge its significance. A U.S. official concedes that the Moscow bugs may have picked up "potentially useful fragments," but adds that "getting them sorted out and fitting them together would require a very large investment in time and effort for a potentially small return...
...Speed is a Wyeth mania. On a moonless night last week after a dinner party, Andy, barefoot, and his wife Betsy, in an evening dress and sneakers, high-spiritedly tried out a pair of newly bought motorbikes, collided headon. Wyeth broke some foot bones; Betsy was sent to the hospital with a concussion...