Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOOM AND BUST...
...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
...expansion-minded director of the Guggenheim, Mass MoCA was supposed to be a big splashy gallery, similar in concept to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The same architect, Frank Gehry, and other big names, worked on the initial plan. But in 1988 Krens moved to the Guggenheim, and the economic boom known as the "Massachusetts Miracle" evaporated, taking the funding with it. Joseph Thompson, Krens' successor, was left holding the baby. He has proved a shrewd parent. Thompson and a local architectural firm, Bruner/Cott & Associates, scaled back the original grand scheme. As a result, they may have ended up with something...
...rise in the popularity of e-mail has alsoridden an associated boom in computer use oncampus...
...mistaken, I think the Black Panthers were there," he adds. There was somebody, I think it was the Black Panthers, up on the kiosk...with their loudspeakers and their boom boxes and whatever. They were egging everybody...