Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long and irrigates 320 acres at a crack...
Unfortunately for the President-elect, the bloom has vanished from the Brazilian boom. Largely because of heavy petroleum imports, the national debt has reached $40 billion and inflation is running at 40% annually. A "cost of living" movement has collected more than 1 million signatures in Sao Paulo alone on a petition demanding price freezes and wage hikes. At the same time, there is a potentially dangerous split among the generals: many of them oppose any further liberalization and object to the fact that Geisel himself selected a successor instead of seeking a consensus...
...boom has brought record prosperity to Andorrans, but it has also attracted an unwelcome influx of foreigners eager to cash in. Many native Andorrans feel that their identity is threatened by the 16,000 Spanish and 2,000 French residents of the principality. Attempts to strictly limit immigration and discourage foreign speculators have failed. A law prohibiting Andorrans from selling their land to outsiders has been circumvented by socalled préte-noms (name lenders), who lease their surnames to foreigners for use in property sales...
...fullbacks, Wendy Sands and Stefi Baum, in particular, contained the Brown strikers when they threatened early in the halves. They avoided overcommitting themselves and stepped in aggressively to boom the ball clear when passes approached the penalty area. On one of the few occasions when Brown did have a legitimate scoring chance, midway through the first half, Sands calmly blocked a headed ball on the line, then catapulted it halfway toward midfield...