Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intend it as a counterbalance to the visceral terrors of The Day After. The linkage was natural, however. Explains Koppel: "What The Day After makes no attempt to do is to show how a crisis evolves. One is left with the impression that everything happens very quickly-boom, boom, boom, there's the crisis and here come the missiles. There's no sense that leaders made any effort to resolve the crisis...
...last year it fell by 3% from the previous year. In many sections of the country there has been an even sharper decline over the past two years. One possible explanation for the overcrowded cells, criminologists say, is a time warp in the criminal careers of the baby-boom generation: only in the past few years have the criminal records of offenders born in the decade after World War II grown long enough to warrant prison terms...
...department-store industry has been enjoying a boom since last April, and the holiday sales surge should push earnings even higher. Third-quarter profits were up dramatically. K mart's earnings increased 171%, to $81 million over the same period last year. At Associated Dry Goods, which owns Lord & Taylor and Caldor stores, profits increased 74%, to $14.3 million...
Raiders leads a video boom...
WHEN TIME magazine writes its annual cover story on the troubles besetting the baby boom generation--soaring divorce rates, disintegration of the nuclear family, alcoholism, mental illness they point to warnings by psychiatrists and sociologists that the consequences of these trends will be "ominous" and "dire" for the children growing up-in these broken homes. And when Mary Robison is not teaching English C at Harvard, she has made it her business to flesh out those troubling statistics in carefully crafted vignettes of family dynamics; what would happen to Holden Caulfield today, if he were in his early twenties...