Word: boom
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...each on workers and employers-goes into effect that year. For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years. Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying swelling Social Security taxes, even without a further increase. The ratio of workers paying into the system to people drawing benefits, after falling from 16.5 to 1 in 1950 to 3.2 to 1 now, will at last stabilize...
Much as Miss Piggy might like to claim that moi is responsible, the porker boom began long before the Muppets' superstar made her bow. Miss P., sniffs Lucinda Vardey, co-author of the anthology of pig lore, Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing...
John H Kelly Jr., project superintendant for the Perini Corporation, was killed when a small crane overturned, hitting him on the head with its boom...
...dogged optimism. They hope that a Union Oil Co. shale project in the area will stay on track and doubt that they have seen the last of Exxon. Said Cecil Gardner, 54, a Parachute native who operates the town's Conoco gas station: "There'll be a boom again. You just wait till gasoline goes up a few more cents a gallon. Oh hell yes, they'll be back." Local people still hope that Parachute and Battlement Mesa will not become ghost towns like Silver City and Russell Gulch, which prospered only briefly during Colorado...
Engineering has long been in a boom-and-bust cycle. In the late 1950s, after the first Sputnik was launched, it was a hot field. Then in the early 1970s, with the winding down of the Project Apollo space program and the Viet Nam War, and the cancellation of projects to build an American supersonic commercial airplane, engineers had a tough time finding work. Now glamorous new computer technologies as well as advances in other fields of applied science have made the profession popular once again...