Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boomba-boom) When I was just an undergrad...
...boomba-boom) My roommates noticed funny quirks I had Like suckin' up to wealthy alums Mockin' folks who lived in the slums...
...chips sold in the U.S. began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned up in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, and middlemen, known as the suitcase brigade, secretly ferried them...
...When I was an assistant at Harvard, I said I'm Val Belmonte and I'm from Harvard," he concludes, "and--boom!--I got attention...
...dwindling numbers in later generations may not be enough to support the huge demands that the baby-boom generation will put on the Social Security system. Demographers predict that payroll taxes on baby boomers now entering their peak earning years will build a surplus of retirement funds that will sustain the Social Security system for a while. But by 2020 the amount coming in from the smaller cohort of workers behind the boomers will not be enough to cover costs. Says Ben Wattenberg of A.E.I.: "What you put into a Social Security system is babies, and what...