Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without any changes the applicant pool could decline by more than 17 per cent because of the end of the baby boom, the report said...
...candles and lanterns. When the patrons went outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused by an Iraqi MiG breaking the sound barrier...
...market is not only a bad omen for the current health of the economy; it is also a sure sign of more trouble to come. Because of years of insufficient construction, the U.S. has developed an acute shortage of moderately priced housing. More and more members of the baby-boom generation are now moving into the prime home-buying age group. Divorce, single-person households and the great migration of people to the Sunbelt and the Northwest have placed further strains on the existing housing supply...
...torture imaginable would have been to have found yourself locked inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three...
That serene facade was shattered moments later. At precisely 12 noon, the windowpanes in the Shatt al Arab Hotel were blasted by a concussive boom. As explosion after explosion followed, everyone in the lobby dived to the floor or huddled next to pillars for protection from the surprise raid by two Iranian Phantoms skimming 100 yds. above the port. In less than a minute it was over. We poured outside and crossed a rickety wooden bridge to view the damage: just 300 yds. away on Sinbad Island, bright orange flames and thick black smoke curled from a coastal dredging vessel...