Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ought to have some say in how to invest money that the government taxes away from them. Redirecting some Social Security money into individual investment accounts would have social benefits too. It would give many of the 60% of Americans who have yet to share in the stock market boom the starting capital to join the party--and perhaps the only chance they will ever get to begin accumulating some wealth...
Some colleagues have asked me, "Do we really need to do all that?" Maybe not--if the economy and the stock market continue to boom and inflation stays tame for years to come. But we shouldn't take chances. The system needs to be shored up so it can continue to keep the elderly out of poverty, come what may: recession, a stock-market crash, a flare-up of inflation or even all these things together. In the unlikely event that the economy continues to show its remarkable combination of superfast growth, superlow unemployment and superlow inflation for another decade...
...Births per 1,000 Americans in 1957, the height of the baby boom...
...tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge students, lawns were a bona fide trend--the wily grass endured...
...tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge students, lawns were a bona fide trend--the wily grass endured...