Word: boom
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Some victory. The final tally showed that Carter, who never left the White House, won 49% of the votes, vs. Kennedy's 38%. No matter how good a face Kennedy put on the outcome, it was still a bitter blow. Last September, early in the draft-Teddy boom, a Boston Globe poll showed Kennedy leading Carter in New Hampshire by better than 2 to 1. But when the Senator became an announced candidate, he plummeted in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the country. Voters questioned his stands on issues, wondered over his inept campaigning and brought up old doubts...
Furthermore, selling multi-billion dollar hardware to other nations increases our own economic problems. Just as the Vietnam War boom led to sharp inflation in the early 1970's, the expenditure of huge sums of money by foreign governments on American arms often causes similar difficulties abroad. Revenue that could be spent on jobs and food instead goes out of the country in large quantities, precipitating a trade imbalance. One popular method of offsetting this problem for many Third World countries is to raise the prices of oil or raw material exports, so that the inflationary effects rebound...
...Calif. An informal patriarch who preferred the outdoors and overalls to office life, he took over the modest business founded by his Italian immigrant father in 1944 and greatly expanded production to include 24 wines ranging from "jug" types to premium varietals. When the U.S. wine industry started to boom in the '70s, other vinicultural pioneers began cashing in their holdings; not Sebastiani. Said he: "I would as soon sell my children as my vineyard...
During her husband's speech, an unsuspecting Mrs. Baker was molested from above by an irrate ABC boom-man, presumably a Reaganite. She nobly shrugged...
...Crystal Palace pond in London. To enhance their trippy riffs and overweening crescendos, the Pinkies brought on a 50-ft. inflatable octopus and detonated a fireworks display. By the time of the first encore, all the fish in the lake had died, victims of the band's cosmic boom and crushing decibels...