Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boom in phony card charges is partly due to a crackdown on another type of telephone abuse. For years operators seldom asked questions when travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...
...appeal, his popularity fueling itself. His surge was not altogether political: a CBS News exit poll in Vermont found his greatest strength among self-described conservatives, while a poll in Massachusetts found that he is preferred most by liberals. Quickest to embrace him were upscale members of the baby-boom generation, known as "initial tryers" to professional marketers. "If you've got a new concept or a new product," said Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden, "those are the first people who are going to examine it and evaluate...
Gary Hart embodies a lot of contradictions, and he knows it. He casts himself as the political avatar for younger Americans, yet he was born a decade before the baby boom, and turned 30 in the 1960s, just when people over 30 were not to be trusted. The presidential candidate whose campaign he managed in 1972, George McGovern, ran against the Democratic Establishment from the hard left; now Hart is running against the party Establishment, not exactly from the right or the left, but from off center...
...Boom in Beta...
...should be able to maintain the tight-fisted control Rosovsky kept on the budget deficits, which have largely subsided since swelling up to several million dollars in the early 1970s. And Spence's aptitude for computers should serve the Faculty in good stead, as it capitalized on the technology boom that is revolutionizing certain aspects of college education. In his capacity as chairman of the Economics Department. Spence has shown a grasp for the problems of graduate students, who many believe are owed an increase in attention over the next few years. In sum, from Bok's perspective...