Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They came by the millions when times were good, from backward villages in Anatolia and the Punjab, from the Caribbean and North Africa. For the most part, they were welcome, even sought after. They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark...
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...Andy Mitchell a third year GSD student who has been working on the Yosemite project summed up the proliferation. "It's a boom industry for sure. A lot of people are becoming aware of its [graphics] application...
Deukmejian prevailed in the budget battle. California also was helped greatly by the economic recovery, which boosted states across the nation; it particularly benefited from the boom in defense industries...
That anxiety has sent accused drunken drivers flocking to their local law offices. "There's a tremendous boom going on in the field," says Nichols, who publishes the Drinking/Driving Law Letter. "You're seeing it nationally, even in states without stiff penalties. The fear level is up all over." Attorney Reese Joye of Charleston, S.C., notes that a decade ago there were only about 30 lawyers in the entire country who had regular trial experience in drunken-driving cases. Today, he estimates, there are at least 100 in every state...