Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health Service was frankly baffled, pointing out that "the age composition of the female population, with increasing numbers of women entering the childbearing ages, is favorable to a higher level of fertility." Unofficial guessers attributed the decline to World War II (girls born in the 1946 baby boom are only now approaching the commonest marrying age) and the introduction of oral contraceptives...
...wondering whether U.S. business has repealed its own law of gravity. One of the hard facts of economic life has been that what goes up eventually comes down, sometimes with a thud. In the classic business "cycle" of ups and downs (see chart), even the post-World War II boom has been interrupted by four disturbing recessions, though they have been growing briefer and shallower. But the current recovery has shown unprecedented staying power, having survived the steel price showdown, a stock market slump, the Cuban missile crisis and the Kennedy assassination. Already it ranks as the best peacetime expansion...
...program, supplementing Venezuela's annual $1.3 billion budget, is Leoni's way of "consolidating and widening" the economic boom that began in 1962 under Rómulo Betancourt. Leoni will use the money to develop the country's interior, stimulate more private enterprise and relieve unemployment (still running 13.7%) by creating 20,000 new jobs. Some 90% of the funds will go toward increasing Venezuela's productive capacity and developing its "basic social capital," meaning everything from electric power to new schools. The other 10% will go for public health and for shoring up debt-plagued...
Last Traces. The dam project already has changed the life of Upper Egypt. The once-sleepy resort of Aswan, where thin-blooded Edwardians and the Aga Khan wintered, has become a boom town; its population has effectively tripled in the past four years to 140,000. Steel mills, nucleonics plants, and vast chemical complexes that will provide fertilizer to replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt." Four resort hotels, plus the Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where...
...except California-at 90 locations in and around New York. Kinney President Steven J. Ross, 36, plans to offer customers as many services as possible along with parking. "The service industry," he says, "already accounts for 50% of all business. As we gain more leisure time, the industry will boom." To take advantage of the boom, Kinney has expanded its rent-a-car fleet from 100 vehicles to nearly 6,000 in the last five years. The company also operates a building-maintenance division, now offers a package service to corporations that includes car parking, car leasing, charwomen and guards...