Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medicine at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages. ∙ ∙ ∙ Jogger's kidney is not the only problem plaguing those involved in the great American running boom. An even more exotic ailment is "jogger's nipples," an irritation caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition, which afflicts not only women who jog braless but also men, can be prevented by covering the nipples with Band-Aids before a long...
...would look in the mirror to see if he had leprosy," comments Jasper Neel, director of the M.L.A.'s English programs. "Now there won't be an upturn of Ph.D. hiring in this century. The birth rate is dropping, and people hired in the boom years of the 1960s have 15 to 30 more years to teach." The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments. Now colleges all over the country are bringing back more or less rigorous composition requirements, and a number of job openings in new writing programs...
...Puerto Ricans of Cambridge come overwhelmingly from two small cities in Puerto Rico, Coamo and Jayuyah. They started to move here in the '50 s, drawn off farms in Puerto Rico by the boom-time of the Korean War. The first to come sent back for relatives until whole extended families had migrated...
...timing is impeccable. The treatise comes in the middle of a boom: photographs now experience the same kind of inflation and distortion paintings did in the 1960s. Once the ignored art, photography now stands robed in puffery and armored with analysis; like painting, it has acquired its cast of heroes and poètes maudits. But not enough has been written on how photography acts on the real world: how it has altered our perceptions, our social relationships, our sense of reality. Such questions are fundamental. They haunt photographic criticism. But they seldom materialize as issues, despite the obvious fact...
...more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this winter will merely ride through the Miami area en route from mainland airport to cruise-ship dock. A helter-skelter condominium boom that began in Miami Beach in the early '60s siphoned off tourists...