Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the economy was already experiencing a slight boom, all this helped...
...them drift into Guatemala City, creating new urban pressures. The military draws fire for its heavy-handed security checks. In one clumsy swoop last week, 200 men and women were arrested for failure to carry identification papers. Yet Peralta has promised elections before Sept. 15, 1965. Meanwhile, the boom keeps going...
Every self-respecting city seems to want to be hideous with rubble and raw earth, crawling with helmeted workers, snorting earthmovers and angular cranes. These are the signs and portents of the biggest civic building boom the U.S.?or any other country?has known. It goes by the name of urban renewal, but it might also be called emergency surgery. The metaphor is thoroughly consistent. Considerable pain is involved, and sometimes shock. There is inevitable destruction of healthy tissue, the operation is sometimes a failure, and the patient is really sick or he wouldn't be there...
...they have cut their average stay from six days to only three, and spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their own gear. At the same time, "Le Boom" enabled 10 million Frenchmen to travel abroad, almost half of them to Spain. Result: France's foreign-exchange surplus from tourism dropped from $200 million in 1962 to about $80 million this year...
...Iberian boom is due partly to happy climate, partly to courtesy. Spaniards are reminded almost daily by the government press about the dour effects that bad manners have had elsewhere-meaning across the Pyrenees in France...