Word: boom
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...price rises were one of the most important causes of trouble in the '70s, but these are likely to remain moderate. Inflation, another reason for the drop in efficiency, also appears to be more in control. Finally, the 20 million young workers of the baby boom who entered the labor force in the 1970s have now become more skilled and thus more productive. Kendrick predicts that productivity will increase by 2.7% a year until...
Nearly every one of the hit comedies from the boom days of the 1970s is gone. ABC's Three's Company, which fell to 34th place in the ratings after years in the top ten, will mutate next fall into a new show, Three's a Crowd, in which Star John Ritter acquires a new girlfriend with a cantankerous father. Only The Jeffersons (ten seasons on the air) and Alice (eight seasons) remain, and they seem to be running on sheer inertia...
...American T.V. stores have increased sales from $900,000 in 1970 to an estimated $160 million this year. Says the self-described Crazy T.V. Lenny, whose main store covers an area the size of three football fields: "Innovations in video have been phenomenal, and this makes sales boom...
From a base camp in Honduras no more than two miles from the border, we can hear the boom of Sandinista artillery. The 26 fighters who will accompany us into Nicaragua are part of a 1,000-man F.D.N. task force that operates in Nueva Segovia. They wear U.S. Army-issue fatigues or blue-green Honduran-made uniforms or, in the case of new recruits, civilian clothes. Armed with Belgian FAL or Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in demolition and information gathering, they appear to be a well-conditioned, highly motivated...
...cynic might view this recent phenomenon as a propaganda ploy by members of the self-important Baby Boom generation. They were the coolest generation while they were under 30, and they intend to remain the coolest now that they are approaching middle...