Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he hung around after the discovery that he had accepted an expensive Oriental rug from a favor seeker, sweet old Ike lowered the boom. He sent Party Chairman Meade Alcorn to push Adams out the door...
...unrealistic plans that were formulated earlier in a race to achieve the so-called four modernizations of post-Mao China: industry, agriculture, defense, and science and technology. Both foreign businessmen and the Chinese, Peking's leaders insisted last week, should abandon any further hopes for a quick economic boom...
Many more adults are also returning to school as part-time students, making up for the decrease in 18- to 24-year-olds as the last of the baby boom babies pass college age, Grant said...
...managers say, are turning more often to paperbacks, priced out of the hardcover market where costs are soaring 12 to 14 per cent annually. Many publishers are introducing a larger number of books as paperbacks to reduce costs. However, instead of producing a wide range of books, the paperback boom seems to be leading to a surfeit of books about dead and/or fat cats...
Garfield and his top-selling feline pals are but one example of the cat boom in the U.S., which now goes well beyond book and comic pages. There is, for example, Cats, an opulent, energetic rock musical adapted from T.S. Eliot's volume of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The production has been a smash hit in London for nine months and will stalk onto Broadway early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty...