Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of some sweeping new epidemic, a population boom or a technological leap backward, these pressures are likely to continue...
...while the 1980's boom in the Far East and the increasing internationalization of business make international fundraising something of anew reality, it's worth remembering that, at least at Harvard, raising money overseas (from donors with questionable motives) is a time-honored task...
United, American and Delta may not be cowering at the thought of Classic Air, but the one-plane carrier represents a competitive spirit that is sweeping the entire industry -- and may ultimately threaten the industry leaders. In the biggest burst of entrepreneurial excitement since the boom after deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full...
...bail hearings for some of the original eight suspects, FBI officials charged that their targets also included the George Washington Bridge and the diamond district, a single block in Manhattan where gems are cut and polished, mostly by Jews. On an FBI tape, one terrorist excitedly envisioned the results: "Boom -- broken windows, Jews in the streets...
...baby-boom generation gets older," says Ivan Reitman, who made his rep on R-rated comedies (Meatballs, Stripes) and whose latest hit is the PG- 13, non-kid comedy Dave, "there's a sense of greater maturity and taking more responsibility in the work we do. We have children and families. We worry about different things." And so we tell bedtime fables to our children and ourselves: little-engine-that-could movies that say everybody is exceptional. Maybe that's the kind of emotional cheerleading America needs. Maybe that's what passes for maturity...