Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is economic. South Africa is in the middle of a massive boom. Attracted by cheap labor, a gold-backed currency and high profits, investors from all over the world have plowed money into the country, and the new industries that they have started have sent production, consumption-and the demand for labor-soaring...
...Sonic Boom...
...idea on the ground that it might encourage joyriding. Lejins also questions the FBI's most dramatic statistic-that U.S. crime is "rising six times faster than the population." In fact, most crimes have always been committed by persons aged 18 to 24; the 1945 "war baby" boom has increased that age group by 25% across the country. Lejins argues that the FBI should at least acknowledge the increase as a key factor in "rising crime." So far, the FBI has kept the matter under advisement...
High above the traffic's boom and deep below the granite surface, New York relentlessly carries on the task of renewing itself. To keep up with the pace, Manhattan alone will spend $1 billion this year, and no city on earth can build faster, taller, bigger or better. Whole avenues are changing as outmoded structures come tumbling down and stores cheerfully bid their customers goodbye with placards: "We'll be back next year, right here in the new building." Never were the signs of change more evident than this summer...
Shortage in the Market. The idea of tinkering with the tax credit worries many businessmen, if only because plant expansion often requires decisions on spending two or three years ahead of the actual outlays. "Tax and depreciation incentives created the boom in the first place," said Chairman Willard F. Rockwell of Pittsburgh's Rockwell-Standard Corp. "If they cut down the investment credit they'll be in a slump much faster than they expect...