Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pashas to enjoy explosive success in the past decade while keeping chicken prices low for consumers. In Arkansas, poultry workers are probably no worse off than their brethren in Mississippi or Georgia, but their numbers are greater, and they are increasingly angry that their share of the chicken boom is so meager. "I think the poultry industry has been a blessing and a curse for Arkansas," says Carol Tucker Foreman, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and the sister of Arkansas' Lieutenant Governor. "In some places, the workers are treated very badly...
Criminologists predict that the population of young offenders will explode in the decade to come. Just as crime began to surge in the late '60s, when the postwar baby-boom generation reached its teens and early 20s, the children of those baby boomers are committing their first offenses. And for many of them, pulling out a gun is just a funny game with the little girl on the corner...
...half-baked idea is to revive club fighting, which once kept half a dozen small arenas in the city busy. To help promote the plan he recruits a retired boxer named Al Grossman (Jack Warden, in a canny, counterpunching performance). This brings him into conflict with Al's brother Boom Boom (Alan King), a man of deadly self-importance, who also happens to be kingpin of what's left of the fight racket...
...also conducting an affair with Helen (Jessica Lange), a waitress in the bar where he (and half of low- life New York) spends far too much time. This is not too smart either, for she is married to its manager, Phil (Cliff Gorman) -- short-tempered, mean- minded and, like Boom Boom, a man not to be trifled with...
...attainment of those personal goals. The venerable concept of apprenticeship, which thrived in 18th and 19th century America, will be revived; young people will divide their time between school and training with mentors in areas ranging from carpentry to wildlife biology. At the same time, adult education will boom as workers retrain for new jobs, bone up on developments in fast- moving fields and learn new skills and hobbies for their retirement years...