Word: boom
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That growth will spur a boom in the development of retirement communities. Those catering to the affluent will be highly sought after by regional civic boosters. "I can envision countries competing for these luxury communities in the same way they used to compete for auto plants, because they are such wealth engines," says William Johnston, a fellow at the Hudson Institute. A new, economical form of elderly residence called "assisted housing" is likely to be popular as well. In these complexes, the elderly are supervised but allowed to live alone. "It's not like a nursing home," says Karen Wilson...
...Boom Boom" Werthman: Columbia is so thin at fullback, Tellier turned to his superstar middle linebacker to add some punch to the backfield. Thus, Des Werthman (10 tackles, two assists and a forced fumble against Harvard) found himself with the ball in goal line situations...
...oldest version of the narrative glowed with a confidence of divine sponsorship: America was lit from within. Later, Americans adopted the more aggressive myth of Manifest Destiny. Curiously, the members of the baby-boom generation came to believe that the ideas of divine sponsorship and Manifest Destiny were intended to apply to them. Now the boomers, who transform every moment that they encounter and every twig that they step upon into unprecedented trauma or revelation, have arrived at midlife crisis. Noises of the generation's falling hair and its disillusionments -- is that all there is? -- are muzzing in the American...
Despite the construction boom, Dade County's economy still staggers under Andrew's blow. Unemployment is rising into the double digits, business activity has declined sharply, and aggregate personal income is way off. Southern Dade depended largely on agriculture and Homestead Air Force Base, both devastated by the hurricane. About 80% of the area's farms were damaged, and losses to the foliage industry, vegetable crops and tropical orchards top $400 million. The winter vegetable crop, which supplies half tored, there'll be no hammering at Homestead...
...consequences of sexual revolution, of women's liberation, of huge multicultural immigration from non-European sources, with the devastation caused by the drug trade, with the loss of America's long absolute postwar pre-eminence, with the fragmentation of the family. It is even a reflection of the baby boom generation's coming of age, having families and changing their moral perspective from individual self-gratification to a somewhat sobered emphasis on family...