Word: manias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TIME: What are you doing right now to prepare for dividend mania...
...particular category," says Accenture's Blumberg. "From a research perspective, with smaller companies, it's relatively hit or miss that the next drug is going to fit in with their commercial strength. With a large company, you're much more likely to have good coverage." Some doubt that merger mania is genuinely benefiting the companies involved. Robert Gray, a mergers and acquisitions expert at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, says industry mergers have not done as well as expected. "Between 60-80% failed to enhance shareholder returns," he says, adding that integration can take two to four years, and most companies...
...course, the world's telecom-investment climate is considerably more frigid than it was just a few years ago. In 2000, when wireless mania was at its apex, everyone thought consumers were dying for high-speed networks and mobile phones that could stream video calls, download movie clips and access online game networks. Caught up in the high-tech hype, mobile carriers rushed into the future, spending a now seemingly absurd $89.5 billion on 3G licenses in Europe alone...
...little kids, some wearing capes and carrying brooms in homage to Harry, Hermione and their gang. But we don’t feel out of place—sharply-dressed, fast-talking New York yuppies abound as well, and even a few 17-year-olds like us. Potter-mania has struck the entire Upper West Side, judging by the size of the crowd. Julia and I leave the store each wearing a pair of plastic-rimmed Potter glasses and clutching our 750-odd page treasures to our chests. Harry (and not the margaritas) has made this night a thrilling...
...putting together with Weezer, AM Radio and Phantom Planet to benefit Petra Hayden, the singer of That Dog who was injured in a car accident. You can also catch him when he goes on tour with The Strokes later this year. You better hurry because BK mania is catching on—as Dustin S. Hodges ’06 hollered at the show: “We really like you, Ben! I mean really, really really really...