Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of these changes came a boom in enrollments, endowments and prestige at Catholic schools. The University of Notre Dame, once known mainly as a football factory, now boasts that 80% of its undergraduates were in the top 10% of their high school class. Georgetown, where 40% of the student body is non-Catholic, can afford to reject more than three-quarters of its applicants. Catholic universities, says Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame, are "first-rate and getting better...
Dukakis spoke early in the day in one of the communities that came to symbolize the post-World War II home-building boom and recalled bipartisan efforts to "promise to provide affordable housing for all Americans...
...reason is fear that gargantuan budget and trade deficits may yet cause prosperity to fizzle. But there is also a feeling that something is wrong with the boom, that general prosperity is not bringing as much of the good life as the rosy numbers indicate. Though the wealthy are doing noticeably better, - most middle-class Americans feel squeezed. They are struggling harder -- and often depending on two incomes when one sufficed for their parents -- to pay for housing, tuition and other expenses that have gone up much faster than inflation...
...Reagan boom, for all its success, has not distributed its benefits evenly. It is a theme Dukakis is stressing more and more in his campaign. "In the past seven years," he declares, "the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and those in the middle -- that's most of us -- have gotten squeezed...
...national mood is the best in four years, and Bush benefits. -- Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...