Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cans read, "Don't be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything" and "What's the point of OK soda? Well, what's the point of anything?" The nine-city campaign fizzled. And the company that a quarter-century ago had celebrated the baby boom with the jingle, "I'd like to teach the world to sing," killed the product. Meanwhile, a grunge-themed Subaru campaign that told viewers its cars were "like punk rock" fell flat, and Converse was surprised to find that Gen Xers were put off by a spot showing an All Star...
...Recent boom-times have enabled companies to hire more employees at higher wages, he says...
...using computers to get the usual amount of work done and then surfing the Net for fun. This is critical because accelerating productivity allows an economy to pick up the pace of growth without stoking inflation. If Blinder's fears are true, we're probably on a classic boom-bust path--and guess what, we've already had the boom. But if Americans are getting a lot more done, the good times will last. Just don't ask the economists how long...
...state of the local job market captures all the contradictions of the current boom. For every employer complaining that he can't find workers, there's another worried that he can't keep them. Local schools, employers complain, aren't turning out competitive graduates. Wal-Mart's Orem is 32 workers short of the 289 he needs because, he says, he can't find people willing to work hard enough. "It's a tough economy for us, because there are more jobs than good people," says Jeff Streitenberger, a partner in Personnel Solutions, the largest employment agency in Chillicothe...
...TIME travelers had barely buckled up before they got their first assignment: to find out whether the economic boom that sent the stock market to a new high last week was filtering down to the grass roots. In Chillicothe, Ohio, Chicago bureau chief James Graff found Jim Whitman, an executive vice president of the Petland retail chain, in high spirits; customers were buying his tropical fish, Dalmatians and flying squirrels in record numbers. In Aurora, W.Va., however, the mood was less sweet. Dale Pase, a park ranger, told staff writer Adam Cohen that 85% of his neighbors could be classified...