Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current boom in venture capital is in sharp contrast with the situation in the early 1970s. At that time, a plunging stock market, the failure of scores of high-technology companies and federal tax increases on capital gains almost dried up the venture capital market. The money faucets again began to open up three years later with the passage of a new tax bill that lowered the rate on capital gains from a maximum of 49% to 28%. The amount of fresh capital immediately jumped from $39 million in 1977 to $570 million...
...produces the boom in the economy that Reagan hopes it will, it could be a major turning point in American politics." Putnam said, adding that "the cuts in social security, student loans and other programs as a result of the bill would all be forgiven by the American people...
...Putnam said that "if the bill doesn't promote a super boom in the economy. Reagan will be in serious political trouble--the Democrats will be in a good position to call the cut a 'rich man's bill,' and the American people will focus on all the services which have been...
Back in the war days the I.W.W.--in full boom throughout the west--had lined up Personville Mining Corporation's help. The help hadn't exactly been pampered. They used their new strength to demand the things they wanted. Old Elihu gave them what he had to give them and bided his time...
...excitement and ceremony surrounding the symphony are one more example of the Mozart boom; not since Mahler became a cult figure in the 1960s has a composer been as popular. On Broadway, Peter Shaffer's hit play Amadeus recently won five Tony Awards. Mozart last year led all composers in the number of new listings in the Schwann record catalogue, and record companies are assiduously exploring the nooks and crannies of the composer's output in search of further repertory-the oratorio La Betulia Liberata, for example, or the opera Mitridate, Re di Ponto, both written when Mozart...