Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boom, the ball goes down into the corner and[Harvard] gets a goal," Stevenson said. "Theyreally have an offensive punch...
Alexander had had premonitions of bad news. In a story he ordered and edited only four weeks earlier, TIME drew worrisome parallels between the Wall Street boom and the events that led to the Crash of '29. Still, the 508-point drop in the Dow Jones industrials on Black Monday was such an unsettling event that a major examination was in order. Under Alexander's supervision, TIME directed its considerable resources at determining why the bubble burst, where the financial markets were headed, and what the implications of the crisis were for both the global economy and the wallets...
...said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont smiled uncertainly at the young man and wisely changed the subject. It was a tactic that few candidates were able to emulate during a cataclysmic week that took the bloom off the economic boom...
...that write-off is too generous. Earlier this month the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a $12.3 million tax-increase package that, among other measures, would finally put a cap on the deduction, limiting it to the first $1 million in mortgage debt. But why not lower the boom even further? As Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski pointed out, "With the people I represent, if you talk $75,000, you're talking big money for a home." A sensible limit might...
Dukakis credits his "E.T." (Education and Training-Choices) program and active revenue collection policies as major reasons for the state's economic boom...