Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over 10 years, with extra relief to poor families. The plan received a conservative blessing Wednesday in the form of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives to keep it going." Bush, who trails John McCain in recent New Hampshire polls, should score major points among the state's famously tax-phobic Republicans...
...cancellation fees; property owners in New York City and Miami put up their pads for sublet at five-figure rates (few takers, so far); British star chef Marco Pierre White tried and failed to auction off private parties at his restaurants at Sotheby's in London. Even in this boom time, the millennium is, like Yogi Berra's fabled night spot, so crowded nobody goes there...
...Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package for two at $306,426--which includes a party for 10 with Dom Perignon and beluga caviar, as well as a 2000 Lamborghini Roadster. ("We'll even throw in a tank of gas," says public relations director Susan Ellefson.) The late-1990s boom is a time of less conspicuous, if no less expensive, consumption, when Donald Trump has morphed from poster boy for ostentation to tax-the-rich political populist, when the wealthy want to have their Valrhona chocolate cake and feel karmically good about it too. Many of the well-heeled...
...scope of the world's party refuses to resolve itself before the last minute. There's ample time for a backlash against the backlash as M-day draws closer and people start feeling millennial peer pressure to make impressive plans. (Even Wyatt is now thinking about adding a "big boom" to her family retreat in Texas.) But if more of us than expected end up passing the moment quietly, toasting our family and friends by the fire or the tube, does this mean we will in some way have changed, embraced the simple life, ushered in the Us millennium? More...
...consumer revolution is complete without well-stocked shelves, and the digital consumer has never been better served--by the boom online in e-commerce and by the huge selection in physical stores. This year's guide is a testament to technology's sophistication in the face of cyber-driven competition and immense demand for products whose prices fall at a giddy pace while their power only grows. Here are our best bets for you right...