Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like many Midwestern river settlements, had a tang more Southern than latitude alone could explain and a small-town coziness that is rare these days. People who liked it really liked it, and stayed. Land enough to build a house could be bought for $800, even after the local boom of the 1970s...
Which adds mortal irony to his recent return to the music industry with a big bam boom. Last year's album, New Sensations, captured a series of everyday experiences that Reed could describe with virginal excitement because they weren't drug-influenced. It was, to say the least, an upbeat album even if it lacked anything like a raw edge. And it gave us the first Lou Reed video, "I Love You, Suzanne," a video which combined staccato sensuality with a simple-minded song to terrific results. The album even included a reworking of an old Reed tune, "Fly Into...
...Mohawk sails through Mass. Ave. traffic on a skateboard. His T-shirt reads "Arm the Poor," and Paul Weller comes calling from the belly of a boom...
During the past few years, as TIME has presented cover stories on the running boom, stress, cholesterol and the changing images of beauty, it has become apparent that Americans have developed a new awareness about the way they look and feel. Responding to that interest, the magazine this week inaugurates a new section, called Health & Fitness, with an evaluation of how well Americans shape up, along with the latest news about nutrients. Says Managing Editor Ray Cave: "A major change in modern life has been the increasing understanding of the benefits of fitness and preventive medicine...
Wishful thinking is partly to blame for Big Steel's hard times. In the mid-'70s, when mills were running at full capacity and it seemed the boom would never end, industry executives predicted that they would need 185 million tons of raw-steel capacity by 1983. In order to buy industrial peace, management agreed to extravagant labor contracts...