Word: manias
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Harvard undergraduates tossed 28 more tons of beer cans, Moral Reasoning papers and other detritus of college life into the recycling bins this year than last during “Recycle Mania,” leaders of the undergraduate-run Resource Efficiency Program announced yesterday...
Undergraduates recycled a total of 91 tons during Recycle Mania 2003, which ended April...
Representatives in each House and the Ivy, Elm and Crimson Yards spent four hours a week encouraging classmates to recycle through poster and educational campaigns. During Recycle Mania, REP leaders say, each undergraduate recycled an average of 2.83 pounds weekly, a 26 percent rise from last year’s 2.25 pounds...
...SARS mania spread faster than lice in a pre-school? One explanation is the unwillingness of public health authorities to take any threatened disease lightly. If SARS were to cause many deaths in the U.S., public health authorities would look foolish if they failed to mount a vigorous response in the initial stages of the outbreak. This uncertainly gives officials an incentive to play up the threat of the virus...
...altar of instant IPO riches. If Netscape worked, the next 100 Netlike deals could work, and the next 200, because the online economy would have to supplant the off-line economy. Dotcom alchemy had begun. Trillions of dollars in losses later, we now know what hit us: a mania that eventually destroyed the bull market itself. The banker perpetrators are now being pursued by the authorities, the analyst anointers held in low esteem...