Energy bankers and analysts say that deal volume in 2006 could rival records set during the last fervor of mergers in the late 1990's.
IN a move unusual for its last-minute fervor, a group opposed to a 23-home development on the Amawalk Reservoir in Somers is urging New York City and other governments and charitable groups to try to buy the 29-acre site in question and keep it from being developed.
But I think that, years from now, only one of these sentiments will last beyond the initial fervor.
Though cultural nods to lasting female friendships were not as prominent as romantic affairs, I latched onto them with no less fervor.
However, my newfound fervor was not to last.
Part of the answer is simply the passage of time: you can't expect revolutionary fervor to last for 70 years.
Many read into that a reference to Mr. Bo, who mixed personal charisma — like Mao — with care for the poor, disregard for the rule of law (in a popular anti-mafia campaign) and Red revolutionary fervor, the last apparently in homage to his father, Bo Yibo, one of China's "Eight Immortals," the original Communist revolutionaries.
But over the last few years, that fervor has slowed.
Over the last 20 years, the evangelical fervor that has swept America has seeped into the Episcopal Church too.
Of course, today's revolutionaries are trying to dislodge the rulers who came to power during the last wave of Arab nationalist fervor.
As the food art moves down the line, a chorus member initiates the call: "Doesn't that smell divine?" The response never varies: "Smells amazing!" The cycle continues, with increasing fervor, until at last the artist makes a conciliatory gesture by carving into the art work and placing a small sliver of it on her plate.
