Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decked out in mesh stockings, spike heels and a nun's habit slashed to miniskirt length, Jack Fertig, a San Francisco transvestite, campaigned for a seat on the eleven-member San Francisco board of supervisors last November under the alias of Sister Boom Boom. On the ballot he had listed his occupation as "nun of the above," and he got 23,124 votes. This was not enough to win a supervisor's seat, but enough to encourage him to enter this fall's mayoral election. Also declaring: "Lady Lillian Chaucer-Peace, gentlewoman," "James Bond Zero, political exorcist...
...this got to be too much, even for San Francisco. Last month Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed a measure that was instantly dubbed "the Sister Boom Boom Law." It requires candidates for San Francisco city offices to use their legal names. Afterward, the mayor, whose nickname locally is DiFi, observed, "I don't think you ever have to worry about politics becoming too stuffy in San Francisco...
...boom in Stanford's student businesses has not been restricted to selling computer products, said David Gleba, a junior who helps run the new student-operated Stanford Center for Entrepreneurship. Students also run such enterprises as Amazing Events Unlimited, which provides imaginative entertainment...
...Senate subcommittee was far from totally satisfied with what Shultz offered. "We condemn their corruption and denial of human rights," said Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii about the Salvadoran government. "But these abominations still persist. Why do we not lower the boom?" Complained Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "El Salvador is just thumbing their nose at us. They're saying give us dollars and go to hell." Then the subcommittee, which has a 5-to-4 Republican majority, voted 7 to 2 to let the Administration shift the full $60 million to El Salvador, but only...
...stock-market surge that has been making investors steadily richer since last August is also producing a crop of instant multimillionaires: owners of companies that are selling their first shares to the public. The "new issue" boom is being fueled by rising demand from investors for high-technology stocks. According to Roger Lopata, editor of the trade journal Going Public, the cash raised this quarter alone by companies making their public debut could top the total of $1.45 billion for all of last year...