Word: manias
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...mania for speed (Jordan can barely sit still through an interview) and impatience with mediocrity sit at the center of eBay's phenomenal growth. A veteran of the entertainment industry and a former management consultant, Jordan was tempted away from a doomed dotcom by his former boss at Disney (now eBay CEO), Meg Whitman. At the time, in 1999, eBay had 400 employees; now it has 5,600. Its share price has grown 33-fold. Worldwide, $23 billion in transactions will pass through the eBay marketplace in 2003. Jordan's U.S. arm handles $14 billion of that. "There...
...those letters you'll get about how parents medicate rather than discipline or love their kids, I have to write. My son, 13, is on five different medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity and bipolar disorder. The entire family has suffered through his bouts of suicidal thoughts, violence and mania. Although I am not entirely comfortable with having him on medication, it is the only thing that has worked. There may be another approach out there, but right now I am too sapped of energy, emotion and time from dealing with my son and the effects of his illness...
...world that is both flat and round, where 33 1/3 r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses...
After five years of Bob Dole commercials and veritable Viagra-mania, it's hard to believe that the pill that made "erectile dysfunction" a household phrase got its start as a potential treatment for chest pain. Today Viagra is the leading drug for impotence, with worldwide sales of $1.7 billion. Its manufacturer, Pfizer, boasts that nine of the little blue pills are popped every second...
...Reed Advisors Dividend Income Fund, either recently opened or are set to open. These so-called equity income funds, which pay returns to investors through both dividends and (it is hoped) share-price appreciation, have been around for years, although the investment style was eclipsed during the late 1990s mania for growth funds. Old Guard favorites: American Funds Washington Mutual Investors Fund, T. Rowe Price Equity Income and Dodge & Cox Stock Fund. Morningstar analyst Dan Culloton recommends that investors favor funds that have reasonable fees, track records and proven, experienced managers. --By Barbara Kiviat