Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis said such grants are needed to provide poorer states the chance to rebound. He said this is what Massachusetts used to spur an economic boom during his first administration from...
...Dukakis said such grants are needed to provide poorer states the chance to rebound. He said this is what Massachusetts used to spur an economic boom during his first administration from...
...baby-boom generation offered the drug-culture priests a slew of ready disciples. "By 1960 you had a whole generation who knew nothing about drugs, and what little they did know came from people who didn't know anything about drugs either," says Historian Musto. "When people found out that marijuana didn't drive you wild and mad, the Government lost what little credibility...
...gold soared to $850 per oz., dozens of small operators and thousands of individual prospectors jumped into the hunt. Most of those revenants of the sourdough era have since disappeared in an industry shake-out that began in the early 1980s, as the value of gold headed downward. The boom is now mostly confined to large, well-financed firms that were initially attracted by gold's higher price. With gold currently selling at more than $400 per oz., the operators can still make an average profit of as much...
...trouble has been building since the 1930s in the U.S. and the 1960s in Western Europe. But the effects were muffled during the 1970s by a worldwide boom in exports. The Soviet Union began introducing more meat into its citizens' diets and imported grain on a huge scale for animals to eat. Oil- price increases piled money into international banks; the bankers lent the cash to Third World nations, which then went on a food-buying spree. Farmers everywhere pushed production still higher to cash in on the new prosperity. Western Europe, for example, went from being a net importer...