Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-tech firms now riding the crest of their industry's boom simultaneously drain gifted teachers away from their jobs, but these firms will find themselves in a most difficult position in the years ahead when less and less brain-power is available because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries...
...There's very little [software] available, and the market is very large; it's really going to boom, too," said Stanley F. Reed, publisher of Campaigns and Elections, a national political journal which recently featured an article on the undergraduates' innovation...
Expectations that lower oil prices could forestall a renewed outbreak of inflation led the bond market to boom, and prices of everything from silver futures to soybeans fell. Gold tumbled $60 during the week. Experts estimate that every $2-per-bbl. drop in oil prices cuts U.S. gasoline costs by 50 per gal. at the pump, so motorists should soon feel some gains. Home heating-oil prices also will decline...
...been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
...that instant, a television audience of millions, including much of the baby boom that is now losing its hair, went time-traveling with Baez. Some felt 20 again. Some felt a thousand years old. They swooped back, daydreaming. Tears shot to their eyes. She was playing their song...