Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, according to the authoritative Petroleum Intelligence Weekly newsletter, stepped-up oil exploration efforts are boosting output in many non-OPEC areas. During 1980, production jumped by 32% in Mexico, by 10% in the North Sea and by 1.3% in the U.S., which is experiencing its biggest drilling boom since the mid-1950s...
...Department of Agriculture expanded its food stamp program as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Currently, 12.5% of Denver's residents use the program (the nationwide figure is 10%), which provides an average of $ 138 a month to 24,000 households. Denver is a boom town. Yet because it is an urban area with lots of poverty as well as wealth, as many as 60,000 people there now depend on the stamps. More than half the families have some form of income-Reagan proposes to cut the maximum income for eligibility from...
...Boom in the gloom-and-doom business of investment seminars They are the rock concerts of the 1980s...
Washington is a boom town whenever Administrations change, and this turnover is injecting new life into a real estate market that was beginning to sag after years of tight mortgage money and soaring prices. As soon as Reagan was elected, home prices began to rise. One three-bedroom condominium that had been on the market for nearly a year at $325,000 was hiked to $350,000 in November-and finally sold. Says Socialite-Realtor Vicki Bagley: "I guess the Reagan people are used to paying $2 million...
...blazing, natural redhead, discovered in Milwaukee in 1979. Top-Top Photographer Albert Watson says that Decker is a face to watch. Nancy, who makes $1,500 a day after six months on the job, thinks so too: "I feel like it's all of a sudden going to go boom, boom. I can just feel it. It's like when you're waiting for a pimple to come up." Not having had time to become jaded or to embrace a pragmatically spartan regimen, she still likes rock-'n'-roll joints like the Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge. She likes...