Word: boom
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...change their sexual practices. "We tell people this disease is caused by sexual intercourse and they laugh," says Louis Ochero, who heads Uganda's AIDS education program. "They say, 'But we've been having that for years and never got such a thing.' " Nor has the American boom in the use of condoms yet taken hold among most Africans. "Condoms here are regarded as something dirty," says Ochero, "something you use on harlots." The resistance extends into elite circles. A frank lecture last year to a group of medical students at the University of Zambia on the dangers of taking...
Nonetheless, after ten years of declining sales, condoms are experiencing a boom in the U.S. Revenues have increased 10% in the past year. With the promise of profit comes an infusion of ingenuity. Japanese manufacturers offer a wide variety of styles, from condoms embossed with flowers to multiscented brands. For homosexuals there is a new, more durable brand in the works...
Some experts believe the economic climate is about to turn propitious for welfare reform. The competition for jobs that resulted when the baby-boom generation reached working age is becoming a thing of the past. In the 1990s fewer people -- those born during the baby bust, the period of low birth rates that began in 1965 -- will be looking for jobs. Says the Domestic Policy Council: "The baby bust will make it easier to lift America's welfare recipients up from dependency. Plenty of jobs will be available in the private economy, and at wage rates that will provide...
...very likely that it was an accident, or a turn of fate that I was chosen," Lindauer said. "Bob Rivers, the record producer, told me that my stuff was real 'crash, bang, boom,' and said that was what they were looking for," he said. He refused to state how much money he will receive for the video...
...decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined by Whidden and Navigator...