Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those factors the leisure-time culture made possible by the state's past prosperity. California has been a boom state for most of the past 30 years, but with their dedication to work, people brought a devotion to play. "Middle-class values about work have combined with an affluent attitude toward sport and leisure. And unlike in any other state, here it was possible," says Peters, who has turned out 40 members of the U.S. women's national volleyball team and 13 Olympians since...
...notion behind the Carmen boom is no more complex than that old favorite, cops and robbers. Carmen is a glamorous ex-spy turned international thief, who leads a gang of wry rogues with names such as Clare d'Loon, Luke Warmwater and Justin Case. The light-fingered mob crisscrosses the globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
Last summer's fashionable footwear was the hiking sandal, cute but not much good on rocky slopes. Now women are wobbling around again on those high- altitude platform shoes. Here comes a boom in orthopedic practice...
According to the association's statement, the number of people employed in schools exceed the number of people employed in several manufacturing industries. In addition, the school employment figures match construction employment figures "during the boom development years...
...hydraulically powered keel let the Procyon sail at speeds of up to 15 knots: roughly 15% faster than a conventionally designed boat of comparable size. Automatic winches furl and unfurl the Procyon's Kevlar mainsail and jib horizontally, at a finger's touch, without human assistance. The unique, sculptured boom eliminates the need for much of the equipment required on standard boats. There are two sets of controls -- helms, winch buttons, wind and direction gauges -- to allow the skipper to steer from either side of the vessel...