Word: boom
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...should one council seat stop holding a liberal derriere and end up under a more conservative posterior, the following things might well occur: rent control, the program perhaps most responsible--for better or for worse--for the way Cambridge looks today could gradually disappear; condominium conversion could start to boom again as it did in the late 1970s; strict zoning aimed at neighborhood preservation could be loosened; and the administration set up by former city manager James L. Sullivan could be dismantled or weakened. That's why people care, on both sides. That's why this has been the most...
Surprise, fellas. The fitness boom has grown for a decade, and improving the body has become an enduring, and perhaps historically significant, national obsession. These days, even the wise guys order a second Perrier. On any given day in the Republic this year, a record 70 million Americans-almost half the adult population-will practice some form of corporeal self-betterment. The figure is a startling one: in 1960 only 24% worked out. Paring it, preening it, pumping it up and pounding it down, the body national is being rejuvenated with a relentless impatience, slimmed with a fanatic dedication...
...when the building boom started after the war, Gropius, Le Corbusier and epigones Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phillip Johnson dominated the profession. So Americans yielded to the wishes of their architectural betters. We had just created the American century, transformed the post-war world into an American plaything, our private domain...
...casualty totals threaten to rise no higher than the peaks of the ten-year period between 1957 and 1967, which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came in 1961, the springboard year...
...company has almost been torpedoed out of the water several times in the boom-or-bust shipbuilding industry. In 1925, BIW actually closed its doors, and there were plans for turning the yard into a factory for making paper pie plates. In 1927, William S. ("Pete") Newell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an old-stock Yankee, bought BIW at auction and began building any kind of ship he could: yachts, Coast Guard cutters, fishing boats, then Navy vessels as World War II approached. Employment swelled to more than 12,000 during the war, but then plunged...