Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan Relations Program will research and prepare for publication in 1981 a report on such topics as the decline in American productivity and the simultaneous boom in Japanese imports since the 1973 oil shock, Kent Calder, lecturer in Government and executive director of the program, said yesterday...
...cause of the boom was not more babies; it was more immigrants. S.B. Sutton reports that the voting list in 1822 contained 481 names, of which only four sounded even "vaguely foreign." Even as late as 1848, only 25 names sounded foreign, but by 1855 there were 1420 Irish and 587 Scots here. The Irish had begun settling in 1830, and after the potato famine their ranks swelled. By 1880, there were at least 15,000 first-generation immigrants, including 8366 from Ireland, 3981 from Canada and the West Indies, 1396 from England, 636 from Germany, 169 from Sweden...
...were officially joined. But, to borrow a phrase from Sutton, "the joining was strictly contractual, rather like a pre-arranged marriage of convenience in which the partners shared little love and continued to sleep in separate bedrooms." Actually, there was comparatively little for government to do--this was a boom era, and local government simply did not enact zoning regulations. It also refrained from planning, and even building codes were rudimentary. The look-the-other-way policy permitted fast economic growth, so fast, indeed, that the 1873-78 depression was scarcely felt in the city...
...boom in operations to change corneal curvature...
Irate shoppers are balking more strongly than before at the high prices and seeking out money-saving shortcuts. Sales of so-called generic products, which come in plain packages and often cost 25% or so less than national brand products, continue to boom. Within the past six months, the Star Market Co., based in Cambridge. Mass., claims to have introduced unbranded products to the U.S., has had a 10% increase in sales on 85 of them. Its parent, Chicago's Jewel Companies Inc., now has 170 such items in its stores, and the company claims that almost all customers...