Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's a boom in gemstones: converts to New Age spiritualism use crystals as talismans, and collectors find new value in rock...
...generations, membership in a college faculty has implied the enviable prospect of lifetime job security through the granting of tenure. Not anymore. Since the late 1970s, academe has suffered a Ph.D. glut as baby-boom enrollments leveled off while universities continued to churn out fledgling professors, particularly in the humanities, faster than the shrinking job market could absorb them...
...boom in medical marketing has produced a strong new field for the advertising industry, in which many other categories have stagnated. Health- care pitches on local television jumped 40% during the first half of last year, to $55.1 million, compared with an overall local-TV ad increase of 14%. Agencies devoted solely to health-care accounts have seen their business double and triple over the past few years and have started attracting lucrative takeover offers from the mega-agencies...
...everyone was that the economic recovery persevered through 1986, its fourth straight year, with no apparent signs of coming to a halt in 1987. The economy began the year with a robust first-quarter growth of 3.8%. The stimulus came partly from a short but intense home-building boom that took off as mortgage rates declined to as low as 9.5%. Sales of new homes surged 24.7% in March, to an annual rate of 924,000, the highest level on record...
...future at the hub of the American universe, a heartfelt smooch at the world's most celebrated intersection of the public and the private -- what other postwar picture at once acknowledged the historical moment, summed up the elation of the victors and even hinted at the baby boom...