Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bowen attributed the rebound in occupancy ratesin part to an increase in Harvard affililatedgroups staying at the hotel. In addition, he said,overflow from Boston conventions is boom for hisand other Cambridge inns...
Cheek attributes the boom to increased consumerawareness that candy does not necessarily causehealth problems...
...running mates, the one closest to being a carbon copy of himself: Tennessee Senator Al Gore. Besides hailing from neighboring mid-South states and swimming in the centrist mainstream of the party, they are close enough in age (Clinton is 45, Gore 44) to form the first all baby-boom ticket...
Actually, Hope was in the midst of a minor boom when Clinton was born there in 1946. The Federal Government established an artillery proving ground outside the town, which brought in skilled workers during the war and created new jobs. Clinton's admired Uncle Buddy, Oren Grisham, worked in the fire department on the proving grounds, which are now an industrial park...
...that the U.S. remains mired in a prolonged period of stagnation that threatens to drag on for years. Companies have restructured, whole industries have scaled back their work forces, and staying lean has become embedded in the corporate consciousness. "This is the end of the post- World War boom era," says employment analyst Dan Lacey, who publishes the newsletter Workplace Trends. "We are never going to go back to what we knew. This is a permanent dismantling of corporate bureaucracies...