Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clouseau once again roams his familiar haunts--the dim, misty back alleys of Paris. The bumbling detective is presumed killed by a bomb ("boom" in Clouseau-speak) and spends the rest of the movie tracking his killers all the way to Hong Kong...
...trading boom in baseball cards has given us series featuring soap stars, Desert Storm heroes, rabbis, drug-sniffing dogs, fugitives and now a new 196- card set picturing missing children. What next? Broken hearts? Top 10 organ transplants...
None of these burgeoning opportunities for the U.N. come cheap. This year's regular budget for the New York headquarters and core operations is $1.2 billion. The post-cold war boom in peacekeeping has led to eight major new operations since 1988, with costs projected to reach $1 billion this year. The Cambodia venture alone is expected to drain $1 billion-plus over the next two years, but that will be a bargain if it buys peace in that devastated land...
Perhaps the most distressing aspect of the Clinton boom is a suspicion that it is largely an artificial creation by the press. Journalistic pundits are constitutionally incapable of confessing that they have no idea what will happen in a presidential race; they are irresistibly driven to impose some sort of structure on the most shapeless contest. Last year many were looking for someone to cast as the principal rival to presumed front-runner Mario Cuomo. They came up with Clinton partly because he seemed the perfect foil to a Northern Big Government liberal: a Southerner who took many moderate stands...
After a 20-year boom in the museum business, the costs of acquiring, insuring, transporting and storing art are spiraling beyond the means of many institutions. As tax breaks that encouraged the rich to donate to museums are eliminated in the U.S. (roughly 80% of all the objects in American museums are gifts), corporate and individual contributions are drying up. Public funding for art is shrinking dramatically. According to the American Association of Museums, as many as 29 states are contemplating reductions of 50% or more in art funding. And the recession has dampened Americans' interest in visiting museums, buying...