Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since, Wichita and aviation have had a reputation of running on a steep boom-and-bust cycle. Explains Beech Aircraft's Bill Robinson: "When the rest of the economy coughed, general aviation got the first cold...
...economic indicators were already peaking out in November 1973, when the Arab oil embargo and energy crisis finished off the 1971-73 U.S. boom...
...other Hard Times, back in 1929, there was what Columnist Russell Baker called a "boom in love." Now, millions of families are finding that they have to stay home and save rather than go out and spend. It may not herald a new epoch of romance, but the New Hard Times-together with newly conservative sexual mores-may solidify more families than they dissolve...
...Kippur 1973 swept away the sweet, fat, confident years that followed the 1967 war. The Israelis, having failed to win decisively, were left with a sense of defeat. The indecisive outcome of the war also uncovered a number of festering problems that had been obscured by the post-1967 boom. In the past year, Israel has been afflicted by a seemingly endless series of troubles: internal recriminations, personal mourning, governmental turmoil, economic malaise...
Paradise Lost's second major flaw is Rothschild's writing style. While the book is often intelligible, barrages of jumbled sentences and creative grammar make the reader question her very analytical ability. ("From the mid 1910s, sustained by national machine fever, the auto investment boom swerved higher and higher.") Unfortunately, she is not alone in this regard. Nader's reports are notoriously unreadable, and many of today's most valuable contributions to the field of corporate responsibility are disguised in language which can only be intended to impress the reader by confusing him. It is more than annoying that some...