Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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District Judge Paul Goldman declared the 23-year-old legally dead at 9 p.m. Kim has been unconscious since fighter Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini knocked him out in the 14th round of Saturday night's lightweight title bout...
Tania B. Friedman, another med school admissions officer said the tail end of the baby boom may also have taken its toll on the applicant pool...
...parking lot around the Hazel Park Lounge and Bowl is full. The men's Monday-night bowling league has arrived. The cars bear testimony to hard times. In the '70s, the boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS...
...saved is $50 billion a year. Alternatively, Reagan tells his aides that the long-awaited recovery will stem the red ink. That is an equally wan hope: by one Administration estimate, an upswing that would reduce the jobless rate to 7% next year, which is far more of a boom than anyone dares to predict, would still leave a deficit of about $100 billion annually...
...flooded with calls for its various lines of vacuum seals for glass food jars since the Tylenol tragedy. "Customers have even come down to the plant to speed up their orders," notes Senior Vice President Vincent Naimoli. PCM Corp. of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (1981 sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three weeks." The company makes "blister packs": plastic sheets that encase each capsule...