Word: boom
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...year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
...school himself in foreign masters of despair -- Mishima, say, or Celine -- Miller could not help remaining a fearlessly joyous soul, "100% American," as he put it, right down to his repudiation of America. No one ever embraced life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more lustily. An Emersonic boom was his, and Whitmanic energy. Like Emerson, he saw the Greek roots in enthusiasm -- the word means divine possession -- and knew that the poet "speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly . . . Not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar." And like Whitman, his fellow rhapsodist of Brooklyn...
...several weeks, Weicker's shutdown was mainly designed to pressure lawmakers during round-the-clock negotiations that continued into the weekend. But the Governor will get the reform he has championed only when legislators become convinced that a more balanced tax system is the best way to end the boom-and-bust cycles of state budgetmaking...
After doing time with Betamax on technology's skid row, the CD's first cousin is enjoying a sales boom...
...bootleg CD boom began in 1988 with the appearance of the Ultra Rare Trax series, a high-fidelity compendium of alternate versions and outtakes of songs by the Beatles. Since then, the market has been flooded with CDs featuring live concerts and unreleased tracks by such performers as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen. One of the most sought-after bootlegs is Prince's so-called Black Album, which his label, Warner Bros., has never released at the singer's request. Since May, bootleg copies of outtakes from U2's unfinished new album have been...