Word: boom
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...although affirmative action has resulted in a dramatic jump in the number of Chicano students compared to the 1970's, enrollment at most Ivy League schools has levelled off in the past five years despite a larger applicant pool and a boom of college-age Chicanos in the national population...
...four nights earlier. Indeed, though Ferraro also argued impressively, most analysts gave Bush a slight edge (see following story). But the next day, Bush squandered some of the benefits with one of the silliest blunders of the campaign. After a rally in Elizabeth, N.J., on Friday, a television boom mike caught him whispering to a longshoreman that "we tried to kick a little ass last night." Realizing that the mike was on, the Vice President then exclaimed, "Whoops! Oh, God, he heard me! Turn that thing...
During the 1970s, the California wine boom seemed like a party that would never end. In the past ten years, growers boosted wine-grape acreage by 26%, to 363,000. Nearly 100 new wineries took root between 1978 and 1982 in the Napa Valley and adjoining Sonoma County. But sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes...
Many of the young professionals who belong to the slightly older baby-boom group, the yuppies, have a well-refined taste for prosperity, and they formed a core of support for Democrat Gary Hart during the primaries. Voters in the 25-to-34 age group now favor Reagan over Mondale by 56% to 24% in the Yankelovich poll, about the same as the voting population as a whole, yet tend to identify themselves as Democrats. Among sub-yuppies, not only is the margin for Reagan greater but so is the Republican enrollment...
...Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers, at 2:20 last Friday morning, brought to an end three months of intense negotiations between General Motors and its workers. The agreement on a new three-year contract raised hopes that the auto industry, which is now enjoying a boom, will be spared a long and damaging strike...