Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khonkar is one of the thousands of Saudis who have gone into business to take part in the oil-sparked economic boom. He started in 1969 as an importer of building materials. Two years ago, he and some other investors formed their own cab company with several white Chevrolets. But the American cars, says Khonkar, broke down too often. The London cabs have also had problems. Example: the plastic tips of the speedometer cables melted in the heat. Nonetheless, the British imports stand up better than the American ones. Says Khonkar: "They make a very good impression with visitors...
...calisthenics and road work. "The whole thing has become deadly, deadly, deadly serious," says Australia II Executive Director Warren Jones. "We train like commandos." The eleven-man crew enjoys impressive backup support. As Australia II was maneuvering before the start of a race last week, its carbon fiber boom buckled, making a forfeit seem probable. But its tender came alongside, and within ten minutes a $9,000 aluminum boom was in place and the yacht was ready with time to spare...
...boom is bigger, however, than just one bank. In the past decade the state's population increased by just 25,000 (to 690,000), but the number of nonagricultural jobs has grown by 60,000. South Dakota ranked third in the nation in per capita income growth...
...with such offbeat ventures as a 15-or 21-day trip, "In the Footsteps of the Mahatma," tracing Gandhi's life (at $85 a day), and vacations at The Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur, where parts of Octopussy were shot. Australia and New Zealand are enjoying a tourist boom, thanks to Yanks. Luxury liners expect to draw 15% more passengers than last year, and boast that 40% of the Love Boat crowd nowadays is under 35. There is an ever wider choice of far-out adventure vacations: trekking in the Himalayas, gorilla watching in Rwanda, bicycling through the People...
...that was at once brooding and sparkling, eclectic and intense, ideas poured forth that were able to shock a nation and yet influence its policies. Treating nuclear war as unthinkable, he said, made it all the more probable, and the U.S. must prepare to survive one. He predicted the boom of Japan's economy well before the Datsun invasion; more recently he warned of problems that lie ahead for that island nation. For the U.S., he saw a new golden age during the next two decades marked by disappearing poverty, an upsurge of productivity and an abundance of resources...