Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lump of cash into the stock market the day before the slide began, and would they please shut off the Mercedes and come out of the garage, I have taken a different mindset. I have been busy contemplating the social fallout from the demise of the present boom period, wondering how all this will affect the current generation of go-getters and world-changers--namely...
...family and friends, to his Cabinet and staff, to Monica Lewinsky and her family (whom he mentioned for the first time at the prayer breakfast) and to the American people. Before this is over he'll be apologizing to our pets. But to anyone familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of the Clinton psyche--and by now who isn't?--his dark morning of the soul was also important because so often in the past he has come to a moment like that one before setting back out to fight...
...flood of previously unreleased, unfinished or reworked art. Directors' cuts of movies from Nights of Cabiria to Natural Born Killers restore lost scenes; boxed sets of just about any recording artist you can think of--Why not the Zombies?--disgorge hours of studio outtakes. These have also been boom times for posthumous publication, with recent "new" work by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Mitchell; next year Ernest Hemingway will give us his fourth book as a dead person. Publisher Charles Scribner 3rd says Hemingway fully intended these manuscripts to see the light of day, but cautions other authors that...
...much more focused on economic justice. A majority of people who are working class folks haven't prospered from this so-called economic boom," he said...
ORIGINAL MUSICALS In the wake of The Lion King and Ragtime, they're enjoying boom times. And not just on Broadway...