Today, many in the industry believe the national mania for renting movies on video is over.

There was a national mania for tap-dancing at the time.

All this spells good news - and high profits - to the many people who have built a thriving business out of the national mania to test.

Other global and national financial mania since the 17th century include:

Goa, India's smallest state, is but a microcosm of a national mania for emigration.

But I soon realized that the teachers are forced to do so by a national mania about standardized results.

As a national mania, running is now old enough so that there are middle-aged psychologists who have devoted their professional lives to the issue.

This emphasis on family ties was not always helpful, a fact rarely mentioned in the current national political mania for "family values."

Among other things, he conceded, that was a time, before pro football and college basketball became national manias, when track was regarded as a major sport.