Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackson made so many of his three-pointers at critical times," Princeton Coach Pete Carril said. "Just when Penn looked like it was getting back in the game... boom! He hits a three...
...Social Security reserves are being drained. The Government has been making up for the budget deficit by selling notes to the Social Security Trust Fund ($56 billion this year alone), i.e., borrowing money that is supposed to be accumulating for the years when the baby-boom generation wants to retire...
...money supply in 1980-81. That also touched off the worst recession of the postwar era, bringing unemployment rates of more than 10% (25% in some areas and industries). President Reagan helped end the downturn by cutting taxes in 1981, which created huge deficits but also launched a record boom that hasn't finished...
Most likely to get you run over by a truck. First there was the boom box -- big, bad and blaring. But soon Sony introduced the Walkman, the compact musical device designed to be seen but not heard. Since then, sidewalks and streets have been filled with people wearing small foam-rubber circles on or in their ears and expressions of rapture on their faces. Watch out for that manhole...