Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just at a time when he is beginning to enjoy a modicum of affluence, however, the Spanish worker is being pressed by inflation, which is running at a rate of about 5% a year, and by a slowdown of the general boom that Spain has enjoyed for the past seven years. Production lines no longer operate day and night, overtime has been reduced, and many factories have been forced to lay off some of their working force. Result: a wave of strikes aimed at maintaining the standard of living to which the workers have only recently become accustomed. Once...
Meanwhile, Boeing is going ahead as best it can. The B-2707 still has some design problems; foremost among them is the sonic booms it will create whizzing along at Mach 2.7 and the airport noise its engines will cause. But Boeing is confident that its swing wing, which folds back along the fuselage at 1,800 m.p.h. and opens out at slower subsonic speeds, may solve much of the boom and vvrrooom. And even while some engineers work at refinements such as these, others are already seriously at work on a new generation of jets to eventually follow. They...
Days Off. Behind the threat of recession lies the reality of inflation. For years, West Germany's unchecked economic boom resulted in a spending spree on the part of consumers and government that kept prices moving steeply upward. To make sure that it could keep pace with demand, German industry hoarded workers, thus aggravating the already acute labor shortage...
Until this incident, B.U. had rarely been mentioned in all the publicity surrounding the ampus drug-boom. Last year, for example, the only drug incident involved several students smoking marijuana. B.U. officials disposed of the case and the police were not called...
...When historians record Mr. Johnson's current program of planned uncertainty, he may be given the dubious distinction of being the only President to succeed in having a bust in the middle of a boom...