Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boom had its origins in a state law that placed Indianapolis and most of surrounding Marion County under a unified government in January 1970. This quadrupled the city's land area to 379 sq. mi. and boosted the tax base from fewer than half a million to three-quarters of a million residents. Most significantly, the law encouraged more direct cooperation between the government and the private sector...
...computer sciences are not the only area likely to benefit from the technology boom...
Conversely, 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 pay for. In this view. Harvard doesn't have to rely on one particular brand--as some other schools have done--thus minimizing the chances of an expensive technological mistake...
Others express irritation at the extension of the subway red line and a concurrent development boom, which have generated constant noise, levelled century-old buildings literally overnight, and closed sidestreets. Traffic patterns--as well as the location of Out of Town News--have changed almost daily...
...college student's protest, and not, as I remember claiming at the time, the action of a vanguard of the urban proletariat and Third World peasants. We were born in the most powerful country on earth in its history and grew up entirely within the post-War economic boom. Life came so smoothly, so almost without incident, that almost no memories remain, no signposts to draw the boundaries. In the 1960s we came of age in the nation's best, or at least its elite, colleges. Most of us never knew economic difficulty. I remember wandering around Cambridge for days...