Word: manias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good, why has Wall Street been doing so poorly, especially now that America has become a nation of stock traders? An explanation is that Wall Street has exchanged its traditional role of follower of economic trends for that of economic pacesetter. Consider the way that the dotcom mania showered wealth on every jaunty entrepreneur with the gleam of an idea but not a clue about earnings. In the past, the stock market would rarely show its checkbook to a start-up sans profits. And now that Wall Street has been burned, the fear is that the current stock pullback could...
...soon as I said it, his eyes lit up and it got written on a chart," Jennifer says. "So whenever I came in it said, 'So and so says you're bipolar. I have some problems with depression, but no mania...
...Census-mania has brought a spirit of philanthropy to Detroit, however. Local McDonalds owners gave unlimited, free meals to almost 10,000 homeless citizens for filling out their censuses and receiving a yellow button reading, "I'm important. I've been counted...
...test, they revealed an even deeper sense of inadequacy about their bodies. More than half of boys ages 11 to 17 chose as their physical ideal an image possible to attain only by using steroids. So they do. Boys are a big part of the clientele at Muscle Mania (not its real name), a weight-lifting store that TIME visited last week at a strip mall in a Boston suburb. A couple of teenagers came in to ask about tribulus, one of the many over-the-counter drugs and body-building supplements the store sells, all legally...
...years ago because of chest pain, tells the kid, "The s___ shuts off your nuts," meaning steroids can reduce sperm production, shrink the testicles and cause impotence. Tribulus, Patrick says, can help restart natural testosterone production. The teen hands over $12 for 100 Tribulus Fuel pills. (Every day, Muscle Mania does $4,000 in sales of such products, with protein supplements and so-called fat burners leading the pack...