Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...m.p.h. onto the flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets along the way. Finally it rammed broadside into a "six pack" of fueled F-14 Tomcat fighters. "There was just one big boom," recalled Naval Aviation Technician Dale Stewart, 19. "It all happened so fast. All you could see was flying pieces of aircraft." Said Petty Officer Richard Elkin: "There were screams of pain everywhere...
...biggest consulting boom has been in biology. The great strides made in recom- binant DNA research have recently opened up opportunities in the one science where there has traditionally not been a commercial market for discoveries. As Robert Albert, dean of the School of Sciences at MIT, puts it, "Biologists are now dealing with something which engineers have lived with for 50 years." Now, many specialists agree that biologists will be spending more time outside the University in the coming years...
...years except under somebody in control of me?" he asks. "It's really nice to have options." So Hamlin will move into real estate in California, where he says "interest rates will have to go down" to the point where he will be able to cash in on the boom...
...minorities, though, administrators and faculty predict a less bright future in tenured slots. No comparable boom to that of women exists in academic for minorities--only two minority students in the entire Harvard class of 1980 opted for graduate work in the arts and sciences. Administrators say the declining rate at which minorities seek academic employment could eventually force the University to step up its recruiting even more just to maintain its proportion of minority faculty, especially since competing universities are also expected to respond to smaller pools by intensifying their recruitment...
...only Popes, Presidents and Prime Ministers who feel threatened. Since John Lennon's murder, entertainers have an increased sense of vulnerability. Businessmen worry about kidnapings-of their families if not themselves. The result is a boom time for firms that discreetly offer protection at a price. These security firms offer little information on who their clients are and how they protect them. Some means are obvious: guard dogs, electronic sensors and scanners, highly trained chauffeurs driving armor-plated limousines...