Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main difficulty, most female attorneys agree, is that the boom in women law graduates has essentially come about since 1970, when women accounted for only 2.8% of the profession. Thus there has not been enough time to yield a sufficient pool of experienced practitioners. "You can't appoint women judges if you don't have a large number of women lawyers who are trained," says Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Ford. Until 1977, only ten women had been named to the federal bench. During the Carter Administration, partly because of the establishment...
...WHEN THE FIREWORKS ended, the real show began, as all these thousands of people got in their cars to drive home. A few cars got out early, but not many. Boom; the streets jammed up. The headlights below us lit up the street brilliantly, and for as far as we could see, there were backed-up cars fading slowly into the distance in a hazy coud of smog. Behind the hotel was a freeway with a tunnel, and the thing to do in L.A. when you're in a tunnel is honk your horn, so an endless echoing Waaaaaaa...
Viet Nam brought on a cultural civil war in the U.S.?a deep and basic fracture. The conflict within the immense baby-boom generation?the Americans who came of age just in time for Viet Nam ?almost amounted to this century's equivalent of the War Between the States. But now, here and there, are signs that the terrible poisons and destructive intractabilities of the time are yielding to some charity and acceptance. Many antiwar activists are learning a certain sympathy for the Viet Nam veterans that they never displayed before. Says Journalist Doug Kamholz, an antiwar radical...
Though Pihl said the boom in computer courses would seem to indicate a new interest in business, he added that the decrease in economics enrollment might contradict that view...
...bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world, all right. It spins between those who refuse to see the bomb and those who can almost taste it. When suddenly a noise erupts in Baghdad, both heads turn, one envisaging a burst of glory and the other trying...