Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another prime requisite is that governments should be prepared to change fiscal-monetary policy in the early stages of slump or boom. A mildly restrictive policy in the late 1960s would have done more to restrain price increases than the recurring rounds of supertight money that followed after inflation had gathered powerful momentum. Similarly, a small tax cut and moderate expansion of the money supply last summer would have combatted unemployment more effectively than the heavy stimulus that was applied this spring...
...everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor...
America's post-World War II baby boom has swollen the traditional crime-prone age bracket (14 to 24) as never before?and possibly never again. In 1950 there were 24 million young Americans in this age group. A decade later it was 27 million, and now it is 44 million; the bulge will not disappear until the 1980s...
...exporters will raise prices steadily, perhaps by as much as 12% this year and 7% annually thereafter. By 1980 he expects the key grade of oil to be selling for $14.65 per bbl. v. $10.46 now. Even if oil prices drop temporarily, he contends, the decline would fuel a boom in the industrial world; this in turn would lead to such an increase in oil demand that OPEC could put prices right back up again...
...Pipeline Boom...