Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First National, which sits in the heart of the West Texas oil patch, made a fateful decision in early 1980 to tap the energy boom for all it was worth. The bank's management solicited big deposits from Wall Street investors and concentrated its loans in drilling and exploration ventures. By the end of 1981, First National had doubled its assets. But complications began to develop early in 1982, when oil prices started falling and energy companies slowed down their loan payments...
...categories: geography, history, art and literature, science and nature, entertainment, sports and leisure. In addition to the original game, there is now a Silver Screen edition of movie lore. Two versions now available in Canada, a Sports edition and one full of the esoterica beloved by the baby-boom generation, will soon be released...
While trying to keep customers excited, the video-game industry is being buffeted by the boom in home computers, which can be used to play electronic games. Price wars have pushed the cost of some home computers, including models from Commodore and Texas Instruments, below $200. As a result, Atari and Mattel machines that do nothing but play games are becoming less attractive and must often be discounted. An Atari 2600 game player, which once cost $150, is now available for as little...
That will probably be in March 1987. It will still be called the America's Cup, after the John Cox Stevens yacht that won the trophy from the British in 1851. Meanwhile, Western Australia is girding itself for a building boom in anticipation of the challenge. At least seven new hotels are expected. There are also plans for a "yachting city," to accommodate as many as 20 challenging teams, sail lofts, dockyards and marinas, and a communications and press center. Australia III, also designed by Lexcen, is already on the drawing board and, claims Builder Steve Ward, is "better...
...machine that ran automatically. It might develop rattles and knocks during wars and speculative panics, but most experts believed it should be left to follow its own self-correcting laws-i.e., be ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment rate may bring joy, gloom or, frequently, bewilderment, but they are anxiously surveyed nowadays by millions...