Word: manias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly commercial and cheesy Lindbergh mania seized the country, the 25-year-old loner, disconcerted and flattered at first, began to understand the price to be paid. Anne Morrow, the deeply private daughter of Dwight Morrow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, married Lindbergh a year after the flight; she eventually became a superb and often popular writer (Gift from the Sea), but shared the terrible price of Lindbergh's celebrity (most devastatingly exacted in the kidnap-murder of their first child in 1932)--and suffered as well from her husband's self-absorbed and cross-grained nature...
...whatever William wanted." Wherever the 6-ft., 1-in. William goes these days, there are echoes of his mother. Blushing, doe-eyed, coy before the cameras, the prince has been mobbed by teenage girls ever since the teen magazine Smash Hits deemed him a pinup in 1995--and Wills mania is only getting worse. On his visit to Vancouver with his father in March, hyperventilating hordes followed him about, each girl convinced she was his true Cinderella. "He's rich, he's gorgeous and he's a prince," explained Jessica Toews, 14, who followed William up the ski slopes. "What...
With Tiger Woods mania driving every kid to pick up a set of clubs and hit the links, what better time to take a whack at golf stocks. That's the pitch for a new golf fund, due out this fall, that will invest in equipment, apparel makers and course developers. But before you pull a Big Bertha from your wallet, remember that Asia's woes have been a drag on industry stars like Callaway Golf and Family Golf Centers...
...There's more than just the Veep's enviro-mania and the "gee, isn't it hot" factor at work here. Higher temperatures are cited as evidence of global warming, which equals a good reason for the Senate to pass the meager emissions-cut treaty hammered out -- with Gore's help -- at Kyoto. In more immediate terms, warmer weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon...
...error occurred while processing this directive] Inexplicably, it was the most inflated stock of all -- Internet companies -- that bucked the trend Tuesday. In the face of a 300-point Dow plunge, Amazon.com and AOL managed to close with small gains. "You would expect the mania-type stocks to be hardest hit," says Kadlec, "but there's still a lot of high expectations surrounding the Internet." A correction is a correction nevertheless, and Kadlec believes the tech bubble will burst soon enough. Indeed, AOL dropped three points amid Wednesday's rally. Don't say we didn't warn...