Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the busiest time of the year for us," said Bob Thurber, dispatcher for Bonanza Bus Lines...
...partisan enthusiam generated by The Game has spilled over into a commercial bonanza for campus entrepreneurs yet again this year, with thought-provoking "Yale Sucks" and "Harvard Sucks" T-shirts leading the pack of paraphernalia...
...considering this new alternative; Nova has already received numerous queries from prospective adoptive couples. With less than 5% of unwed American mothers willing to put their children up for adoption, the small number of women who cross the boundary from abortion clinic to adoption service may seem like a bonanza to childless couples...
...supply-side tax cuts, designed to stimulate the output of goods by giving workers and businesses greater rewards, failed to produce an offsetting revenue bonanza. While sky-high interest rates and the 1981-'82 recession might be partly to blame, supply-side critics say the idea was faulty from the start. In any case, the budget deficit exploded as Government receipts shrank. The flow of red ink nearly tripled in two years, hitting $207.8 billion in fiscal 1983. It would have been even higher if Congress had not adopted a $98 billion tax increase in 1982, which Reagan grudgingly signed...
...Cosby Show, whose fourth season begins on NBC this week, has already earned a chapter in the TV history books. Its overall rating last season -- 34.9, representing 63 million viewers -- was not just its best in three seasons but the best for any TV series since Bonanza in 1964-65. The show's success has created its own bonanza on the syndication market: Cosby Show reruns, currently being sold to local stations, have earned a record-smashing $600 million, and the total could eventually top $1 billion; a third of that will go to Cosby himself. Meanwhile a Cosby Show...