Word: boom
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...match the boom in graduate school applications, which practically doubled from 1957 to 1967, the Houses brought in more pre-law and pre-medical tutors. In addition, the creation of the Allston Burt senior tutors in 1953 established the central administration in each House office, again detracting from the educational role of the masters...
Very few reservations about a coast-to-coast gambling boom...
...have spread fast among the country's 1.4 million Indians, most of whom are poor, many destitute. At least 50 of the 167 reservation tribes, from the 8,000 Cherokees in North Carolina to the 1,200 Yaquis in Arizona, are trying to cash in on the quirky boom. In two weeks a new 1,600-seat hall will open on the Sandia Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and the Baronas plan to build a $2.5 million arena with room for 2,000. "Bingo is benefiting our people," says Arthur Welmas, the Cabazons' tribal chairman...
...Jersey's guns boom, terror hits Kuwait and Arafat sets to flee...
...heart operation in the U.S. (170,000 last year). It is a $3 billion industry, and thanks to the news media, which have faithfully chronicled operations on such notables as Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Rock Hudson and Arthur Ashe, it has even achieved a certain social cachet. The bypass boom has led some doctors to fear that the operation is being overused. Now a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has confirmed their doubts. The ambitious $24 million study, ten years in the making, found that about one in eight bypass patients would live just...