Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PREPARE FOR A DROP IN PRICE OF HOUSING, warns columnist Hobart Rowen in the Washington Post. "Experts agree that the nation may be facing a serious drop in demand for housing over the next 20 years, because the Baby Boom of the 1950s has given way to the Baby Bust of the 1970s...
Supermarkets, drive-ins, car washes, neon signs and other exuberant examples of the postwar building boom are being touted for preservation. Some have already been set aside as, yes, historic landmarks, touching off a debate among the experts over what is worth saving and what deserves only to be targeted for the wrecker's ball...
...They asked me for 25 cents and then--boom. I got hit really hard, right across the face. They knocked me flat to the ground," he said...
...markets units that can be bolted to air ducts to mute the blast of industrial fans and heating and air-conditioning systems. Noise Cancellation Technologies of New York City just announced a joint venture with Tenneco to make electronic mufflers for automobiles and light trucks that can dampen engine boom without reducing engine performance or fuel efficiency...
...watched a demonstration of warplanes beingcatapulted off the deck and screeching into thesky. A thunderous sonic boom from an F-14 caughthim by surprise, and Bush's knees buckled and heducked. He recovered quickly with a sheepish grinand a funny face for cameras...