Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elvis Look-Alike Contest) in the Boston area to keep you kiddies off the street until reading period. Closest to home is Tom Paxton, appearing at Jonathan Swift's on April 9. If you're up for journeying into Boston, the Paradise is featuring Willy Alexander and the Boom Boom Band on April 6, and none other than Carly Simon April 9-11. Nobody does it better, and at $9.50 it's worth it, if you can afford...
...professors that are probably most aware of the apparent ethics boom among undergraduates are Dyck, and Stanley J. Reiser, assistant professor of the History of Medicine. Their course, Hum 130, on "Problems in Medical Ethics," has registered the most phenomenal growth in enrollment, drawing 315 students this year, compared to 180 the last time it was offered...
Business people are not spending more. Murphy reckons, because they overexpanded during the world boom of 1972-73, then were stuck with costly overcapacity during the deep recession of 1974-75. "The scars run pretty damn deep." he says, ''and a lot of people are saying, 'My God, I'm not going to get caught in that position again. I'm going to run as hard as I can with the plants I've got, and I'm not going to put any more in place." Suddenly one day they'll realize...
...mining town seemed ripe for violence, it was Oceana, W. Va., a scraggly strip of forlorn-looking buildings lining a potholed main street and set between two brown mountains in the Appalachian foothills. Once a brawling town that sprouted no fewer than 37 bars during a mining and railroad boom in the early 1940s, Oceana (pop. 1,580) is one of the few communities in which the miners voted to accept the latest proposed contract and go back to work. Although they are members of U.M.W. District 17, one of the union's most militant, they voted contrary...
Senior co-captain Jim Hammitt lowered the boom on the "A" competition by steering his sloop to a first-place finish on the Moore Trophy course, which ran from one side of the Throgs Neck Bridge to the other. Laura Brown, the captain of Harvard's women's team, crewed for Hammitt...