Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent description of Spain's economic boom, but certainly a very poor description of the status of individual freedom there. Contrary to what you write, police still torture political suspects. Also, there is no freedom of speech any more than there is right to tax evasion in the U.S. We all take joy in what is good about Spain: its economic progress. However, it makes painful reading for democrats all over the world the way your editorial seems to absolve Franco and his associates of the responsibility toward humanity for crimes committed during and after the Civil...
...Madrid the joke was that the farmers of Almeria were no longer growing tomatoes but, rather, mushrooms. Another yuk had it that residents of the Mediterranean coast near Almeria had renamed their region "Costa Boom." It was something to laugh about all right-a missing American H-bomb...
...down further, to somewhere between 3% and 3.5% . Little if any of this trend can be attributed to consumers; the cause lies in conscious and calculated policies for mulated by governments fearful of inflation and more than willing to try mild deflation as an alternative. "The climax of the boom is behind us," said West German Economics Minister Kurt Schmücker last week. "But this is an entirely natural process of adjustment...
...That gave him a 13-point lead over Detroit's Frank Ullman in the scoring race-and, with 36 games still to play, a clear shot at the N.H.L. record of 50 goals in one season, which Hull shares with Montreal's Maurice Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion...
...horrors began early in June 1756, when the Nawab of Bengal, taking umbrage at the swaggering economic imperialism of the British, marched on Fort William, the East India Company's stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...