Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles, the company's single-engine YF-16 had finally won a bruising Air Force competition for a new generation of lightweight fighter-interceptors. The new machine is supposed to help the planners fight rising costs in military budgets, but that will not prevent it from yielding a bonanza in jobs, profits and aerospace-industry production contracts that will stretch well into the 1980s...
...Dergue's motto-"Ethiopia First"-has been transformed into a growing campaign against all things foreign, and the country's 35,000 foreign residents are noticeably uneasy. Newspaper editorials regularly attack alien imports and ideologies. Last week the state-owned television station was ordered to stop showing Bonanza reruns in favor of "enlightening documentaries" made in China. Foreign women are reluctant to go shopping alone for fear of being jostled, sworn at or spat upon. Beggars have grown more surly and muggings have increased, and certain areas of Addis Ababa have informally been placed off limits...
Although this year's oil bonanza has given Venezuela a brighter future and richer present than any other Latin American country, the sudden affluence has not produced universal euphoria...
...miles from the cloudtops last December. As a result, Pioneer 11 will be subjected to radiation perhaps ten times as powerful as that encountered by its predecessor, which escaped with only minor damage to its instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels and magnetic field; and the first measurements of Amalthea, smallest and innermost of Jupiter's 13 known moons.* Space Pioneer. No one is watching Pioneer...
...play focuses around the drafting of Conrad Birdie, a teen-age rock star. Rosie, however, comes up with a way to turn the loss of her boss's only client into a financial bonanza--pick a Birdie fan at random for Conrad to kiss on the Ed Sullivan Show after singing his new song, "One Last Kiss." Rosie also wants Albert (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), her boss, to quit songwriting, break away from his protective mother, and become an English teacher. Her dreams all come to pass by the final curtain call...