Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Reardon said running a successful campaign is work-intensive, he credits much of its success to the bull market. Since Harvard launched the Campaign in May 1994, the U.S. economy and financial markets have seen a boom...
...Tell me about it," says Lillian E., a retired city employee who heard the same hustle when the casinos came to town 20 years ago. Today, Bryant's neighborhood is the last stable, middle-class, mostly black area in all of boom-or-bust Atlantic City. Bryant says she's not against new casinos, she's against uprooting good neighborhoods so outsiders can pretend they're in Shangri-La. "Steve Wynn must have something good on these people. The state is bickering about having to pay $200 million for public education by an order of the Supreme Court, but they...
...with the social pathologies of the rich rather than the poor), today's young audiences may find themselves entranced rather than repelled by the movie's upscale ticky-tacky decor and more likely to respond to the sound track's cha-cha lounge music than to its earnest baby-boom lullabies by Simon and Garfunkel. The generation gap has come full circle. Kids today--they'd rather play Rat Pack in Vegas than run off with Katharine Ross on a bus to self-actualizationland. Plastics...
...Austin, Nev., a rickety mining town whose gold ore was exhausted years ago, junk-shop proprietor Leo Wolfers is sweeping up a pile of window glass shattered by a mysterious sonic boom. Wolfers is used to the screaming fighter jets that take off from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, but he says the plane that smashed his windows was no ordinary craft. "It was diamond shaped. It could rise straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers...
...Gene Wilson, who has been a Chrysler dealer in Flora, Ill. (pop. 5,400), for 50 years, says he has become convinced of the underlying resilience of local economies. "When we lost the railroad depot years ago, we thought we were done for, but then we had an oil boom. When that ended, we thought we were done for, but then a shoe factory came. Then that closed, but we had companies like Minwax, Haliburton, Sparton horns and a German company, Hella, that makes relay switches...