Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon and attire proved to be gamesmanly ploys back home. But now that every street urchin has a quilted parka, this sort of appeal has been irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions...
Only for the Rich. All the activity is giving realty development a new look. Amid the longest urban land boom in U.S. history, the price of land around the fringes of growing cities has risen anywhere from 100% to 2,000% in the past ten years. With freeways opening up exurban spaces, land development is not only spreading farther from downtown but growing in scale. The old-style developer, rich in imagination but thinly financed, can scarcely afford to participate today, at least not without wealthy partners. As long as the tax rules make real estate an enticing...
...price of prosperity has come high in Europe, where wages and prices have vied in outracing each other. Unlike the U.S., which is worried about how to keep its economy advancing, Europe has had to worry about how to stop its boom from moving too fast. The Continent was actually relieved by predictions that most economies will slow down in 1965, but it has not relaxed its vigilance against inflation. To prevent further rises in wages and prices, West Germany's Bundesbank last week raised its discount rate from 3% to 3½%, serving notice that prospering West Germany...
...torrent, and the calculation is hardly more than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...
...form, it is limited to film available in archives, all of it at least half a century old. The result is too often a barrage of names and statistics, accompanied by endless cycles of grainy newsreel footage: statesmen shake hands, famous field marshals solemnly confer, the 14-in. guns boom and recoil, the tanks rumble, the infantry scatters. And the audience fidgets, uneasily aware that the horrors of war have begun to seem less tragic than tiresome, and that a picture is sometimes less eloquent than a few well-chosen words...