Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Botha: I don't know. That revolutionary-backed United Democratic Front has a few big unions behind it. And the workers have been pretty active here since 1980. Only 101 strikes occurred in 1979, then boom. They went up to 207 the next year. And since 1980, membership in Black unions has mushroomed from 220,000 to about 700,000. They even called to two-day general strike last fall. Can you imagine? They might shut down the entire economy. You guys better send some troops down here...
...Volcker's tinkering with the money supply have had on big business. What the public doesn't hear about is the bitter aftertaste the "recovery" has left with larger numbers of people in the country who are just now beginning to realize the sham of the so-called economic boom...
...identify, is steel. More than 8000 Pittsburgh steelworkers walked out of their jobs two weeks ago after the financially shaky Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation threatened to cut wages by 18 percent. This is the first steel walk-out since 1959--a time when American business was experiencing an economic boom...
...circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find of the tournament, was a souped-up shortcutter without a solid wooden foundation. But zing is more than string. McEnroe also had to admit, "I felt a little old out there...
...Following the Spanish conquest, the gold-greedy conquistadores heard gaudy reports that the Indians had thrown gold, jewels and young virgins into the cenote to propitiate their deities. Nothing was ever found until 1904. Then American Archaeologist Edward H. Thompson, working with a steel bucket appended to a simple boom and derrick, and later with primitive deep-sea diving equipment, spent more than five years exploring the sinkhole. Thompson gradually brought up gold bells in the shape of monkeys, sheet-gold masks, scepters, sacrificial knives and a multitude of other objects including an assortment of human bones, mostly...