Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during this post-war boom period, the club decided to admit all its undergraduate members to its lunchtime training meals, which the club sponsored. At the time Harvard participated in 17 sports and more than 100 athletes dined at the club each...
Just ten years ago, risk arbitrage was practiced only by a few high rollers. The merger boom, however, has provided so many opportunities that many other investors have become involved. By far the biggest and boldest of the arbs is Ivan F. Boesky, 47, who has his own privately held firm. He raked in about $50 million on Texaco's 1984 takeover of Getty and $65 million last year when Chevron bought Gulf. Three weeks ago, Boesky turned a tidy profit when he bought 3 million shares of Holiday Inns at $47.30 just as the company was offering...
...Sullivan and others are gambling on the notion that the new requirements imposed on building will not adversely affect construction and dampen the current commercial boom. They figure that developers will still want to take advantage of Cambridge's prestigious address and companies will continue to prize access to university brain-power and facilities enough to bear what Sullivan estimates is a modest three percent increase in costs...
...shirt boom has been an unexpected boon to Mumford High, a virtually all- black public school in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Detroit. The % garment was picked for the film by Jerry Bruckheimer, a Beverly Hills Cop producer and 1961 graduate of the school. Mumford plans to use profits from the shirt sales to buy new books, computers and athletic equipment. It will also share its good fortune with other schools in Detroit. Says Queen Loundmon, the activities director at Mumford High: "This has created a whole new kind of pride...
...money trends. Indeed, the hottest property on the N.Y.S.E. was Allied Products, a Chicago agricultural-equipment maker that bucked an industry slump by producing cultivating implements designed to help farmers cut energy costs. Republic Gypsum, a Dallas manufacturer of wallboard and asphalt roofing, thrived on the Sunbelt's homebuilding boom. California's Mattel bounced back from last year's worst-performers list by turning away from electronic games in favor of dolls like those in its deliriously successful Masters of the Universe line. Rollins Environmental Services, a Wilmington, Del., firm that handles industrial waste, benefited from stricter federal rules involving...