Word: boom
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...before work and an appealing (to the advertisers) level of disposable income. Also, by and large, they have the attention span and curiosity to seek out more in-depth coverage than television currently provides. Many in this group--particularly the upwardly mobile, increasingly suburban children of the baby boom--also gobble up consumer/fashion information, and papers like The Times have been happy to oblige. The papers find the arrangement congenial because that kind of "news"--called "Living" or "Weekend" in The Times, or "At Home" in the Boston Globe--generates considerable advertising revenue...
...News hasn't even been able to profit as much from the boom in sports coverage. Because it comes out in the morning, the paper is locked into a format that features mostly game stories rather than the analysis, inside dope and rumor-mongering that pervades the Post. The only big success the News has had recently is its rather pathetic imitation of the Post's "Wingo" called "Zingo." "Zingo" has added 100,000 to the circulation, putting the News back to 1,483,333 everyday, but that is still nearly 450,000 below the 1976 level...
...after Harvard killed off a high-sticking penalty to Brian Busconi, a shorthanded stint that included a deflection wide and a great stick save by Lau on Eagle forward Jeff Cowles, the referee lowered the boom on Litchfield, who had just unintentionally lowered the boom on B.C. forward Gary Sampson...
...revived; for all the question marks surrounding President Reagan's record, the man has shown he can take--and deliver--a joke. Baker--whose career as the "Observer" of The New York Times will hit the two-decade mark this year--has seen the opportunities for political satire boom. Just last week, for instance, he "observed" that conservatives are, in fact, more fun-loving guys to party with than self-righteous left-wingers. Another recent Baker series teased--in the gentle but pointed fashion that is his trademark--the Reagan White House for, among other things, its Meese-heavy decision...
...upstate New York city of Binghamton showed a 25% increase in available jobs because defense-related industries in the area have won new Government contracts, while the thriving Texas cities of Fort Worth, Longview and Midland had 15% increases because of greater petroleum activity and a construction boom. Even depressed Detroit, burdened with an estimated 112,000 laid-off auto workers, had openings for practical nurses, receptionists, security guards, machinists and production assemblers. Jobs for construction workers were mainly available in such Sunbelt cities as Phoenix, Greenville, N.C., Houston and Tampa...