Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those factory closings--and their dire costs in human suffering and economic productivity--have, however, sparked a boom in one sector of the economy: Economists have been churning out new explanations for America's "deindustrialization" and prescribing solutions to it about as fast as companies have been laying off workers. With The Deindustrialization of America, Boston College's Barry Bluestone and MIT's Bennett Karrison add to this growing literature, which includes everything from Lester Thurow's baleful Zero-Sum Society to the corporatist musings of Felix Rohatyn in the New York Review of Books to Ezra Vogel's jealous...
...Philadelphia. Author Lynn Davis offers a three-hour workshop in New York City called "Personal Ads, Why Not?" Vi Rogers, editor of National Singles Register, a tabloid published in Southern California with many pages of personals, says the search for love, and not just sex, is producing the boom. "I never realized how many men wanted to get married in Southern California," she says. "Men and women today want the same thing: romance, love and commitment...
...expanding interdependence of the two countries is strikingly visible in such U.S. border towns as Calexico, Calif., Nogales, Ariz., and El Paso. During Mexico's boom, local economies flourished as Mexicans crossed the border in droves to buy American-made cars, clothing and food. But the peso's declining value, together with strict controls on the amount of U.S. currency Mexicans can obtain, has virtually halted the flow of Mexican customers, and merchants complain of near Depression business conditions...
...often sold in the form of a floppy plastic disc the size of a 45-r.p.m. record on which the inventor's program is inscribed. All programs, however they are packaged and sold, are known as software. Programs written by independents have become the engine that drives the boom in personal computers. Unit sales of the $500-to-$12,000 desktop devices for office or home are expected to reach 1.1 million by the end of this year, according to International Data Corp., a research company. But instead of shopping around for a particular machine made by Atari...
...wave of Japanese weddings has led to another relatively new and rare Japanese ritual: the divorce ceremony. Japan's baby-boom generation, raised on the Beatles, social protest and affluence, has elevated Japan's divorce rate to an alltime high; three out of ten couples will break up. At a typical split-up rite, guests pay a fee for food and drink. The couple apologize to family and friends and return their rings...