Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreaded and planned against for nearly a year and a half. Yet when it occurred, all the worry, the precautions and the special security devices proved to be almost futile against the fanatical determination of one man to reach his target. "At first I thought it was a supersonic boom," said a Lebanese civilian moments after the explosion. "Then I knew it was the American embassy...
...counties including metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from the East and Midwest who came to escape unemployment and cash in on the oil boom. Soldiers at For Sill in Law ford and students at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University in Still water, might also be able to push their counties to allow one of military men's and college students' favorite activities...
Silicon Valley is the Yuppie stronghold, and the computer boom has contributed significantly to the renewed faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity. The country's economic future, when viewed through a silvery high-tech scrim, does indeed look exciting. Moreover, the 21st century seems to be mingling with the 19th: entrepreneurism, led by the high-tech vanguard, has been imbued with a quasipatriotic urgency...
Harvard hopes to take advantage of market forces. Administrators believe that the cheapest and most economical way to handle the computer boom is to let students decide for themselves how much computer use they want and are willing to play...
...eternal glitter, gold is not lustrous to mine. Modern prospectors use bulldozers and giant stone crushers, processing seven tons of ore to recover a single ounce of gold. Stimulated by high prices, mining intensified in the late 1970s and has now reached boom stages...