Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criticism has not reached the fever pitch of the 1970s, when Big Oil's "obscene" profits inspired a wave of legislative controls. The oil companies contend that they have heeded President Bush's admonition to show restraint at the gas pump. In fact, while oil prices at the end of last week stood at about $33 per bbl., or 65% higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount...
Those suspicions are not unfounded. A senior White House official suggested last week that the Administration was trying to encourage the widespread throw-the-bums-out attitude toward congressional incumbents -- the vast majority of them Democrats -- to boost the chances of Republican challengers. Asked if the anti-incumbent fever might not topple some G.O.P. members of Congress, the official confidently predicted, "I think they feel strong enough to withstand it." Many Republican strategists are not so sanguine. They fear that in next week's voting the Republicans may lose more than 10 House seats, the average for the party that...
...makes. The enchanted moment is gone. From stock markets to supermarkets, high anxiety rules the day. Iraq's march into Kuwait on Aug. 2 has proved to be the catalyst that brought the world's ( economic weaknesses to bear all at once: America's profligate spending, Japan's speculative fever, Eastern Europe's huge renovation bill, the Third World's monumental debt...
...suggests the cause of death, allowing the disease to spread subtly into metaphor. As ex-President Bolivar passes through corrupting cities and pestilential villages on the way to retirement, his dream of "one nation, free and unified, from Mexico to Cape Horn," collapses as surely as his consumptive lungs. Fever inspires delirious memories of battlefield victories and bedroom intrigues. Ideals, glory, vitality and hope are overgrown by failures...
...Woodbury, reporting and writing this week's Living story on the latest twists in roller coasters was a boyhood dream come true. Growing up on Long Island during the '40s, Woodbury caught roller coaster fever at Coney Island, which then boasted no fewer than five coasters. After conquering the legendary Cyclone, Woodbury was hooked, and ever since, when his travels allow, he dashes off to an amusement park to try out the local thrill machine. Woodbury figures he has had innumerable rides on some 25 different roller coasters over the years. As a journalist, he chronicled the evolution...