Word: boom
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What's happening is a boom in low-carb diets, the weight-loss schemes that allow you to eat all the protein you want--steak, eggs, even fatty bacon--so long as you cut way down on carbohydrates like bread, pasta and soda. The fat-embracing diets, like so many other fads that we shouldn't have invited back, are from the '70s, when high-protein plans like the Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution made fondue hip. Now the low-carb diets are back and bigger than ever. Low-carb-diet books will clog the top four spots...
...similar boom hit the U.S. in the mid-1980s. Then only one U.S. company in 10 bothered with brand-extension licensing. Now 65% of FORTUNE 500 companies have licensing agreements, says Glen Konkle, Equity Management's chairman. Back then, licensing was primarily the province of Hollywood studios that owned the rights to popular cartoon and movie characters like Bugs Bunny and Luke Skywalker; professional sports teams and athletes; and a few fashion designers. But companies like GM had begun to realize that many of their brands had additional value...
...room completely and envelops his listeners. He cracks jokes--smart, pointed and wickedly funny. He talks about "long-legged Episcopalians" with "apocalyptic bosoms," the seven deadly sins, and the "explosive creativity" of the American adolescent. (His plan for exterminating Saddam Hussein is to "drop 1,000 American Adolescents with boom boxes in Baghdad or Teheran.") And he talks about how taking attendance at McKee Vocational and Technical High School sounded like "light opera: Adinolfi, Buscaglia, Cacciamani, DiFazio, Esposito, Gagliardi, Miceli...
Seventeen only comes once in a lifetime/ Don't it just fly by wild and free..." Tim McGraw's voice rings out from a boom box perched on an aluminum grandstand, behind a well-worn softball diamond. Beth Perez, 17, is playing catch and humming along, until she sees the yellow sign hanging from the chain-link backstop: WE LOVE YOU MR. AVERBUCH...
This September, returning students were confronted with an odd juxtaposition of facts: Harvard administrators were settling into the comfort of an unprecedented economic boom while other members of our community, the security guards, were told to face "harsh economic realities" and were de facto forced out. While the University endowment has ballooned to over $14 billion, while the Capital Campaign has exceeded its $2.1 billion goal by $225 million and while University President Neil L. Rudenstine has informed every Crimson reader that Harvard has achieved "a goal greater than any other institution of higher learning in the history...