Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standing on the balcony and I saw the missile come in and just BOOM. It shook the whole ground...
RELIGION: Latin America's Protestant boom...
...more neutral observers wonder whether Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party government in Canberra is the villain or the scapegoat. Agriculture is a notoriously boom-and-bust business. If any single factor is to blame, it is probably Australia's dodgy trading position in a rapidly industrializing part of the world...
Many of the biggest high rollers were New York City banks that lavished loans on everyone from Latin American dictators to Donald Trump. At the same time, they helped finance the 1980s real estate boom that has filled U.S. cities with vacant office towers and dotted suburbia with empty condominiums. "Citicorp was hurt the most," says Thomas Brown, a Paine Webber banking analyst. "Then come Chemical, Chase and Bank of New York...
...George Bush. The transplanted Texan is known to want to hold his coronation in Houston. But G.O.P. advisers contend that having the event in California could boost Bush's chances for carrying the state, which he won by a margin of just 3.5% in 1988. Thanks to its population boom, the Golden State will provide 54 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency...