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...have spawned their first backlash movement against the merger mania of the '80s. Advocates of tough new antitakeover laws that are sprouting from Massachusetts to South Dakota claim that the legislation will prevent outsiders from looting local firms and throwing residents out of work. Critics are concerned that the rules will entrench inefficient corporate managers and drive investors elsewhere...
...eventual neglect. Recall Live Aid, the super-mega concert that graced everyone's TV screen five years ago. In the mid-1980s, caring about hunger suddenly became fashionable after some pop stars got together and made a few mushy records on the subject. By the summer of 1985, hunger-mania had reached epic proportions and the Live Aid concert was dubbed the event of the decade...
Part of Women's Expo, a week-long examination of women's issues, the panel focused on the forces that create what media specialist Pamela Waite called "the mania for thinness...
...Thursdays, the textual stuff: approach, linguistical skill, emotive power, bias, mission. Is the historian willing to call judgement? If so, directly, or through irony (Gibbon), or through emphasis (Macauley). Method of research? Empiricism--footwork--or the pure remove of documents? Even Style: the visual mania of Carlyle; the reasoned compression of Ranke...
...free society to function effectively, people need full access to information. As part of the recent "merger mania," the ownership of the mass media in the United States has been concentrated to an alarming degree in the hands of fewer and fewer large corporation. Independent newspapers and magazines have been bought out by major chains, and the radio and television networks are controlled by such powerful companies as General Electric (which now owns...