Word: boom
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...fats, which contain twice as many calories as equal amounts of carbohydrates and proteins. It also urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those people susceptible to this life-threatening disorder. Despite the physical-fitness boom, the board emphasized the need for even more exercise as a way of burning up excess calories, curbing appetite and staying in trim. Finally, the panel advised Americans to limit their consumption of alcohol, a source of nutritionally "empty" calories, to no more than the equivalent of three mixed drinks...
...cream filling, icing in papal yellow and white, marzipan coats of arms, and all topped by a milk chocolate model of Christ the King. Blowing out the single candle, John Paul ordered the cake distributed to orphans. He sipped boiling-hot tea and listened delightedly to an Italian choir boom out a traditional Polish birthday song, "Sto lat lat, niechaj zyje nan [100 years, 100 years, stay with...
...slump in gasoline consumption has meant a boom for public transportation. Intercity bus ridership was up 10% in the first quarter of the year, a sharp reversal for an industry that has gone mostly downhill since World War II. Amtrak's business from October through March was up 11% on longdistance train routes and 17% on shorter runs. Biggest gainers are trips out of Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York, which were traditionally the domain of auto travel. Riding on the rails between Los Angeles and San Diego is up a sharp 35%. For more and more drivers...
Surprisingly, in some areas unemployment is no real problem. Massachusetts, the buckle on the formerly declining New England snow belt, is enjoying something of a boom due to prosperous high-technology firms. An official of Raytheon, the flourishing electronics firm near Boston, says, "The level of our unemployment is lost in the noise. It's hardly worth talking about." Frank Whitfield, vice president of Whitfield Pickle Co. in Montgomery, Ala., says his only problem is that he cannot get enough cucumbers. "At my plant we let 77 people go. It was not because of the economy but because...
...Skyway has been the scene of three other major accidents this year. On Jan. 28 a collision between the Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn and a 605-ft. oil tanker killed 23 Coast Guardsmen. On Feb. 6 a boom from a Greek freighter slammed into the center supports of the bridge. Ten days later a Liberian-registered oil tanker hit an abutment. In the last two cases, damage was slight and there were no injuries...