Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wall Street's boom Monday didn't play well in the world market. More...
...size and complexity of operating systems grow over time, he says, as powerful new features are added. "That was true long before Microsoft was a corporation." The company has made billions by steadily improving a product that has won millions of customers, contributing immeasurably to America's economic boom in the process. Merging Explorer into Windows is just the next step in a natural evolution...
...keep reminding ourselves that today's economic euphoria tends to anesthetize any trace of yesterday's lugubriousness. Also, vice verse. Certain kinds of institutions, however--and especially universities--cannot exist or thrive if they allow themselves to ride too closely the ups and downs of every minor or major boom or bust...
Fifty years after he did it first, he did it again. Chuck Yeager, the enduring symbol of flyboy coolheadedness under pressure, broke the sound barrier again, in an F-15. It was a farewell sonic boom for the 74-year-old, who has retired from military flying. "I just decided to go out on top, rather than wait for some doctor to ground me," he said. Not that grounding would be all bad. The following day, a British pilot broke the speed of sound in a land vehicle...
...Microsoft manage to defy the bad news from the Justice Department and end Monday with their stock up by 25 cents a share? Simple - as Money Daily reports, they were part of the earnings boom on Wall Street. Microsoft, IBM and Eli Lilly (makers of Prozac) all posted better-than-expected third-quarter profits...