Word: boom
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...struggles to nurse a postwar peace process into life, Shamir has countered by launching what is one of the largest Jewish settlement drives since Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Ostensibly, the building boom is needed to house a growing settler population. But it is really meant to strengthen the Jewish state's claim to the territories prior to any negotiations. If Shamir can stall long enough, he hopes to make Israel's presence in the territories irreversible before peace talks even begin. Says Dedi Zucker...
...life is until you're in that position where you're gonna get killed, and you'll do anything to survive. And look what I did to survive. I went on that stand 30 times, and it killed me. I loved some of them guys. And I had to -- boom, boom, boom, boom -- point the finger and bury them...
Hollywood's new formula neatly capitalizes on the search for spirituality that has captured America at the turn of the decade. The meaning of life and the approach of death are issues that seem pressing to a baby-boom generation in the throes of middle age. At the same time, teens who were raised on the values of the materialistic '80s now wonder what to replace them with...
...lately has been the prospective free- trade agreement with Mexico. While economists are virtually unanimous that free trade benefits both trading nations, labor unions fear they'll lose jobs to Mexicans who work for lower wages, and have opposed the pact. So have environmentalists, who fear that industry will boom south of the border, where antipollution laws are less strictly enforced...
...Michigan-born Madonna has three world tours, 20-plus music videos, seven feature films and eight albums under her Boy Toy belt. She has single-handedly created a boom in music-video sales. That the image refracted in the media-crazed mirror never settles is hypnotizing. Her throwaway line "Experience has made me rich/ And now they're after me," from her tune Material Girl, seems more a wily prophecy than mere egoistic cant. Her latest public catharsis -- a quantum artistic growth spurt, if you will -- is Truth or Dare. It is a panoramic, emetic, beauty-marks-and-all, feature...