Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students got an unexpected chemistry lesson last week. We learned that fake snow doesn't melt like real snow. We also learned that fake wind comes out of big machines that go boom. Fake Harvard students run to class--and carry their books in bookstraps. Fake seniors only keep a single copy of their theses...
Some stock traders might even be tempted to use the still taboo word boom. The Dow Jones industrial average last week shot up 4%, to a record Friday close of 3442. The 132-point rise in this blue-chip stock index for last week alone equaled its increase for all of 1992. Even more striking, bond prices rose enough to send the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds down to 7.17%, the lowest since 1986 (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really...
Charles Bahne, the Director of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhoods, challenged Harvard's views. Bahne said that the financial growth credited to the city manager is actually due to the real estate boom of the 1980s...
...winds, construction equipment, even the passing feet of farm workers, the spores can travel up to hundreds of miles on the surface of dust particles. Central California's six-year drought, which has been interspersed with warm, heavy rains, as well as the region's construction boom, provided the ideal conditions for fungal proliferation...
...baby boomers' parents, those members of the World War II cohort now in the twilight of their lives, are the wealthiest generation in American history. Blessed by the real estate boom of the 1970s and '80s, the stock- market surge of the '80s and lucrative pensions, Social Security payments and a high savings rate, older Americans as a group have amassed a nest egg that New York University economist Edward Wolff values at $5.3 trillion -- an average of $258,000 for each household headed by a person over 64. Those assets mean an unprecedented windfall for many otherwise struggling younger...