Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These operators were not on the scene in 1956 when Denver builder Franklin Burns, cashing in on the postwar housing boom made possible by the GI Bill, set up a friendly little thrift that eventually became Mile High Savings and Loan. He was doing just what Congress had envisioned when it carved out a role for S&Ls in the early 1930s. Limited by law to making home loans and earning the narrow profit margins provided by a relatively stable real estate market, Mile High was helping propel the great American Dream of home ownership for everyone...
Black worked in construction for a while, plugged away hard at making a musical name for himself through the boom years in Houston and the Urban Cowboy vogue of the early '80s, when every citybilly wanted to wear snakeskin boots and ride a mechanical bronc. "Hundreds of western-wear stores popped up around that time," Black observes dryly. "But, musically, I couldn't hear a lot of difference...
...proclaimed his kingdom in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been confronted by the alarming threat of conquest. In coping with that challenge, the country and its 14.5 million inhabitants find themselves poised on the sword edge of change. The modernization and enrichment of Saudi life produced by the oil- price boom of the 1970s and '80s may one day look like a mere twitch compared with the convulsions to come. "This impact will be greater," says a senior adviser to the Saudi government. "These changes won't just break the crockery but the furniture and the walls...
...behind the blinding glitter of the new multimillionaires, the city was failing the bulk of its citizens. Even the basic rudiments of civil behavior seemed to evaporate along with the glitter of the boom times. Every day 155,000 subway riders jump the turnstiles, denying the cash-strapped mass transit system at least $65 million annually. The streets have become public rest rooms for both people and animals, even though failure to clean up after a pet dog carries fines of up to $100. What was once the bustle of a hyperkinetic city has become a demented frenzy...
...justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...