Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the real estate boom of the early 1980s, however, the condo developers and national chain stores have moved up from Harvard Square, slowly edging out the old way of life along Mass...
With the baby-boom generation growing older, said the bureau, the number of women in their prime childbearing age has already begun to decline. But a smaller work force does not necessarily mean economic stagnation. "These changes don't come upon us overnight," says Thomas Espenshade, a population expert at Princeton University. "We should be able to accommodate them...
...artificial measures, but that's what we use, and you have a flair for defining them. You called the '60s "the whole crazed, obscene, & uproarious, Mammon-faced, drug-soaked, Mau Mau, lust-oozing '60s." The '70s were "the Me decade," "the sexed-up, doped-up, hedonistic heaven of the boom boom '70s." As we close out the '80s, how do you define the decade...
...boom is being fueled by fatter teacher salaries and efforts by many states to speed up the certification process. As recently as 1983, only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or previous classroom experience. In the 1987-88 school year, some 2,500 teachers in 24 states were trained through alternative certification programs...
HARVARD Square is currently a tenuous balancing act--part commercial boom-town, part residential neighborhoods. One end is increasingly dominated by high-rise developments and ritzy boutiques; the other has remained free from pricey stores and restaurants...