Word: manias
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...seemed, was mute not by necessity but by choice. He'd tried to protect us from his thoughts, but if the times insisted that he tell what he saw as well as what he was, he could only reveal that the innocent chaos of comedy depends on a mania for control, that the cruelest of ironies attend the most heartfelt invocations of pathos. Speech is the language of hatred as silence is that of love...
...antitrust chief also had plenty of incentive to cut a deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory...
This passage captures the ironic, skeptical attitude Lucas tries to maintain toward religious enthusiasms and mania. But he is also emotionally drawn to the subject. He starts research on a book about the Jerusalem Syndrome just as a dramatic instance of it--a plan, no less, to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount--begins to engulf people he knows and eventually him as well...
...totaling $18.5 billion. Last year a report by the U.S. Public Interest Group (USPIRG) found that consumers paid 15% more to maintain a regular checking account at a big bank than at a small bank. Similar results were found by a Federal Reserve report to Congress last June. "Merger mania is making the fee-gouging big banks even bigger," complains Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for USPIRG. "Fewer and bigger banks mean consumers face fewer choices, less competition and even higher fees...
...simply plunking some money in a well-run regional bank-stock mutual fund like Fidelity's or John Hancock's. Both are up more than 55% in the past 12 months. There are still some 9,100 banks out there. A fund gives you broad exposure to the deal mania that has been lifting the industry for years...