Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Science sections go through boom and bust cycles," she says. "Right now they're in a slump...
...quality television. He'd heard rumors of others wanting to buy it, and he asked me to look into it." The right offer might change GE's mind. While NBC outpaced its rivals for years with top-notch programs like The Cosby Show and L.A. Law, many of its boom shows have faded, and the network has so far failed to find able replacements. What the Cos would do with NBC is uncertain, although he is outspoken about television's treatment of blacks, which he believes needs much improvement...
...Boom Boom" Grossman (Al's brother), well-played by Alan King as the intimidating gangster-type, threatens Fabian. If Al dies during Fabian's boxing fiasco, so does Fabian (foreshadowing?). And Boom Boom already has good reason to follow through: He hates Fabian because of confrontations in their favorite pub, plus Fabian's dream poses a potential threat to his own boxing promotion corporation...
...hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created a population boom and with it the need for a more centralized government...
Like the rest of the world, Central Asia and East Asia were experiencing a population boom, though the great Bronze Age civilizations of India, Japan and China were at least a millennium away. Nomadic hunters and fishermen appeared for the first time along the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried...