Word: manias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People's Tragedy (Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all sides and without letup, is that stupidity ruled--quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into...
Although Silverman was educated as a lawyer, he gravitated to the more treacherous world of dealmaking, cutting his teeth with Wall Street's Blackstone Group in the merger mania of the 1980s. There he was involved in dozens of corporate deals. But don't look for his name in the headlines: he shies away from New York City's mogul madness. As one of his staff says, "He is not part of the scene. You will never see him on Page Six [the New York Post gossip page]. He is focused on business...
These torrents have poured in just as companies have rediscovered merger mania and thereby taken countless shares off the trading boards. The supply has shrunk further as companies have bought back bushels of their own shares. Corporate America repurchased nearly $170 billion of its equities last year. Coca-Cola, whose price rose 42% in 1996, helped the increase along by declaring its intention to swallow as many as 206 million shares of Coke, or 8.3% of the company's outstanding common stock...
...feed my roommates. I feed my blockmates, friends, neighbors and anyone else who drops by. (Adams Fentry, if you're hungry.) Perhaps this is the innate genetic manifestation of Jewish mother syndrome, but I don't think so. It's what I call Bulk-Discount Mania Syndrome...
...takes personal computers with 486 or Pentium processors and refurbishes and resells them. Most of the boxes are just short of state of the art but fine for everyday computing. And at $600 to $1,000, they've quickly become a hit. The key to the business is upgrade mania, as corporations "retire" machines in favor of the latest, greatest technology. "I'm a great advocate of Microsoft and Intel," Kushner says. "I love every product introduction." Kushner's only problem: his idea may be too good. PC leviathans Compaq and Packard Bell are rushing...