Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack R. Boom '79, who was assigned to South House, which was his eleventh choice, said yesterday that he and fellow sophomores were dissatisfied with actions taken by the housing office. He said the practice of placing transfer students in River Houses before sophomores is an example of what he believes to be unfair...
...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
...STATE OF BUSINESS: The economy is not rebounding as everybody thought it might. Christmas sales are not going to be enough to start a new boom. The problem is not going to go away without some sort of direct action. I think that something along the lines of the 1975 tax rebate is needed, plus investment incentives, plus some kind of work program. The possibility of [inflationary] overstimulation [of the economy] is not a major factor...
...architect who joined Irvine as planning manager in 1960, admits that he feels "apprehensive" about the impending takeover. One danger is that a new owner may order a sudden speedup in Irvine's growth in order to increase its profits; that could expose the company to the same boom-and-bust cycle that bedevils other developers...
...James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...