Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics are supposed to be for sportsmen, not businessmen. But every four years companies pay dearly to reap the prestige and lucrative sales surge of an Olympic tie-in. The Carter Administration's Moscow Games boycott, though, has turned the summer's expected sales boom into a bust...
Ultimately, the person who has made the biggest changes since the no wave boom and crash is Lydia Lunch, the former mastermind of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Teenage Jesus made the messiest, most agonizing and most chilling no wave noises of them all. They broke up a couple months back, leaving several singles, an appearance on the Eno sampler, a ridiculously short album, and the memories of scores of New York gigs. Lunch recently resurfaced. She now fronts an aggregation known as 8--Eyed Spy, and the New York cognoscenti are ecstatic. She has landed a solo contract with...
...interview with TIME (see box), Mugabe also vowed not to disrupt the potentially prosperous capitalist economy he will inherit. Many local businessmen feel that the coming of peace and stable government could spark an unprecedented boom in Zimbabwe. With the country's main agricultural, mining and manufacturing industries freed from the shackles of the international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence, economists expect a 3% rise in the gross domestic product this year and a 15% increase in exports...
About 70% of all college buildings in the U.S. were erected after 1950, more than one-third of them in an eight-year spurt following 1966, when federal funds flowed freely and administrators hustled to accommodate the baby boom. Cutting corners with low-grade materials, designers often created buildings that aged prematurely and consumed heating oil as if it would cost 160 per gal. forever. With their budgets severely strained, school officials have paid only for the absolute necessities: soaring energy bills, teachers' salaries, research costs. As a result, maintenance budgets have shrunk proportionally, just as buildings and machinery...
...drop in the bond market may affect the $25 million capital fund drive, however, because potential donors may give less this year than if there were a market boom, Putnam said...