Word: boom
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...replace each parent), the population would still climb to more than 8 billion sometime in the middle of the next century. That is because the vast numbers of females born on the steepest part of the S curve in the '50s and '60s have generated "demographic momentum," a boom in childbearing that will last for some time to come...
...knew that the boom had been lowered and you were under it," added Forbes, who attended Harvard College for a few years during the early 1940s...
...vogue for vintage TV can be at least partly attributed to the baby-boom audience, which grew up on TV and has a seemingly insatiable appetite for + revisiting the media icons of youth. But it may also reflect a rejection, by audiences of all ages, of the creative exhaustion and tired formulas of most current TV fare. Television of the past was, to be blunt, not only different but very often better...
...years of warfare is explosive. Land mines dot the countryside like rice seedlings, and fighting forces remain heavily armed. U.N. troops may eventually demobilize regular units, but retrieving militia weapons will be harder. Banditry has been rising since a cease-fire took effect last May. A superficial boom in the capital conceals a generally wretched standard of living in the provinces. Major highways can suddenly dissolve into swamps, and 80% of bridges are patched-up affairs...
...world's treasures are falling victim to a boom in art theft...