Word: boom
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Over the next 75 years, according to commission estimates, Social Security faces a deficit of $1.6 trillion, a byproduct of the "baby boom" generation's reaching its retirement years. One long-term recommendation included in the compromise package would slowly increase the bonus for delaying retirement over a 20-year period, starting...
...Wednesday morning, Sanders had permitted Officer Hester to shout from a window that he was all right. Police, meanwhile, began monitoring sounds in the house with boom microphones. Later that night they also moved a TACT force (a local SWAT team) into the area. Early Thursday morning, police at the listening devices heard Sanders say, "My daddy's dead, my brother's dead, and the devil's dead." Assuming that the "devil" meant Hester, police stormed the house with tear gas and gunfire. Within minutes the firefight was over. Hester's battered body was found just...
...today. (Other countries' rates are, by U.S. standards, amazingly low: England, 1.1, and Japan, 1.0, are typical.) No more precipitous increases are expected this century: criminologists believe that the murder spree of the '60s and early '70s was mostly the doing of World War II baby-boom children passing through their crime-prone years of adolescence and young adulthood. As it happened, the number of young people and cheap, readily available handguns
Doctoral programs expanded at a fierce pace in the wake of the baby boom of the '50s and '60s. While only 107 institutions granted doctorates in 1940, 326 award them today. Some 30,000 new Ph.D.s graduate each year, but only a projected 100,000 academic positions will be available from...
...budget cuts may swing the boom-bust pendulum a little bit one way or the other, but the fact remains that disinvestment began to gather momentum long before Reagan ever reared his Brylcreemed head. Bluestone and Harrison's book demands that readers of all political stripes face the fact that investment, and how to increase it--not this budget plan or that--is the economic issue for the '80s. Deindustrialization is a problem that has been brewing for a long time, and it will require a fundamental and far-reaching solution...