Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boom! A cannon shot from the Society Jazz Band bass drum jolts the chattering crowd outside the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home into a brief silence. The casket is coming out. Boom! A second shot signals the stricken cadence of a dirge. The white gloves of the pallbearers flash in the morning sun as they float their burden to the silver-gray Cadillac hearse. The main party of mourners, a score or so, fit themselves into several cars waiting in line...
...their predecessors, Americans in the pre-adult age brackets have, for the past ten years, been nearly invisible. Those predecessors, to be sure, were something special. They were the most active and activist generation of young people ever to come down the American pike. They were also, being baby-boom youngsters, the most numerous. In terms of both numbers and aggressive venturousness they all but dominated the stage of U.S. social change during the 1960s...
Journalists are taught to cover all sides of a story, but rarely can they do it as thoroughly as TIME'S Edwin Reingold. From 1969 to 1971, he was Tokyo bureau chief, chronicling the early days of Japan's economic boom. He was reassigned as chief of our Detroit bureau in 1971, just when fuel-efficient Japanese cars were beginning to vex U.S. automakers. Returning to head the Tokyo bureau in 1978, he found Japan's economy in full flower. Reingold's split-screen perspective on the U.S. and Japan proved to be invaluable in reporting...
...billion in federal funds spent on the military creates over 100,000 fewer jobs than the same amount spent on education, over 60,000 fewer than that amount spent on health care, fewer jobs still than the same amount spent on construction or mass transit. Partly due to the boom-and-bust nature of defense contracting, military spending is a much less effective tool for stimulating economic growth than that government spending which provides steady jobs...
...lift the 40-ton structure. Perini rented a Manitowoc crane with a 100-foot boom and a 165-ton lifting capacity. Walter A. Viglione, Perini superintendent, said yesterday...