Word: boom
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When Perez returned to the presidency a little more than three years ago, the boom was over, and he was like a reformed alcoholic preaching fiscal temperance. He cut government spending, moved to privatize industries and embarked on what was in many ways a model program for the developing world...
...from the housing complex are other signs of transformation. Melbourne's skyline is a jumble of gleaming glass-and-steel boxes, tossed up almost overnight in the 1980s property boom. But beneath the glitter there is gloom. Last year the Melbourne city council announced that the number of beggars in the streets had increased for the first time since the Depression. The gap between rich and poor grew worse in the past decade, typified by the activities of Australia's over-leveraged business tycoons, whose rise and fall earned the country much publicity overseas. A decade that academic Hugh Stretton...
This is not to say the economy is headed for trouble. The recession ended on Feb. 25 (the day I bought a brand-new Chrysler LeBaron convertible), and there's reason to think business may boom in the year ahead (I have my eye on a new computer). But while that's good news for Main Street, it's almost surely already been discounted by the market. Could stocks have climbed so high without expectations the recession would end? And it also means interest rates may one day edge back...
Huntington attributed the recent democratic boom to the growing difficulty that authoritarian regimes face in attempting to legitimize themselves. In addition, he cited economic factors, the influence of the Catholic church and changes in the policies of other world powers...
Lapenn thought of Rasminsky immediately as the prime person to run the theater project. Rasminsky, who was last year's president of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, has a history of involvement with feminist theater: The Stronger, Curves, 'night, Mother and In the Boom Boom Room...