Word: boom
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...Warsaw will need 3,000 more beds than are available. Prague, which has 6,000 tourist-class beds, needs to double its capacity if it is to begin to cope with demand. It is as bad, if not worse, in Budapest. "We just can't keep up with the boom," says Gyorgy Szekely, vice president of Ibusz, the state-run travel company. "We need more of everything." Given the accommodations shortage, the best advice for tourists is to set out with confirmed reservations...
...aerospace industry has been one of the top beneficiaries of the export boom. Last week Boeing announced a $4.8 billion deal to sell 23 new 747-400 jumbo jets to Korean Air Lines, which had earlier bought nine of the planes. All told, Boeing has 161 foreign orders for airliners, which range in price from $35 million to $130 million apiece. Even small U.S. firms have made impressive inroads abroad. Trilling Medical Technologies, a Carlstadt, N.J., firm of 50 employees that sells burn-protection products, has seen its international sales increase 400% during the past year...
...five years, we traveled all over the world. We quit in 1945. Then in 1948 there's the Berlin Airlift, and again it was boom, boom, boom. We went to Korea in 1950 -- and we never stopped. We started in Vietnam in 1964, right up until about 1972, every year. Those kids were so grateful that you would come to them...
Cabot was criticized roundly in the media for missing out on the boom which followed the 1987 crash, and last year, the performance of Harvard holdings fell below the major indices and the market averages...
Hence the narrator Joe Brinson looks back to the year 1960, when he was 16 and his parents were newly arrived in Great Falls, Mont., hoping to benefit somehow from an oil boom in the area. Dwarfed like everyone else by the vast ! empty spaces, they find instead the same marginal isolation they have encountered elsewhere. Jerry, the father, is a golf instructor at the local country club until he is fired on the probably unwarranted suspicion of stealing. With her husband suddenly out of work, Jean, the mother, takes a job giving swimming lessons. As Joe gets used...