Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fees for checked baggage, gave the airline a negative image among business flyers and probably hastened its demise. Its rival, Texas Air, which officially bought People Express last month, prevailed partly by making a point of offering low fares without reducing service below generally accepted levels. The airline-merger boom, too, has disrupted service in the airline industry, as huge airlines combine their schedules and crews. The Department of Transportation announced earlier this month that complaints about poor airline service, especially delays, increased 30% during...
Where does it all come from? Martins credits the expanded audience for ballet. "Remember when everyone talked about the 'ballet boom' in the '70s? Well, it's permanent." He praises the N.Y.C.B.'s affiliated School of American Ballet, its national recruiting staff and its faculty, singling out his own mentor, Stanley Williams. "Stanley modeled those little muscles to look that way," he says of his Petits Riens cast. "It's a long, endless process, a quality of movement, an attention to detail." But the dancers know Williams is not the only one who cares about details. Says Martins: "Balanchine...
...large fraction of the faculties throughout the nation are composed of professors tenured in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the expanding student enrollments of the baby boom generation. "If the mandatory age is uncapped when these professors reach retirement age in the next 12 years, they will clog up the tenure system," says Shattuck...
...claims that a demographic problem will also affect higher education if professors are not forced to retire. Institutions that expanded their faculty to accommodate the numerous students of the baby boom will have fewer opportunities for younger academic talent, he says...
Traveling from area to area only one thing remained consistent: development. Here a condo, there a condo--each mountain is adding real estate to its list of profit-making activities. But the building boom isn't only at the bottom of the mountain. Every area has been expanding lift facilities, cutting new trails, and increasing snowmaking capacity...