Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb was created from a gas canister similar to those used in the 1995 attacks. The device was planted in the fourth train car, which was severely burned and had its doors blown off by the force of the explosion. A witness told France Info she heard a loud boom and smelled something like gunsmoke, similar to an odor at a firing range. Dozens of emergency officials rushed to the station, including an anti-terrorist squad and riot police...
...customers now represent the greater opportunity. Regular bank customers who pay lower rates are no longer borrowing as much as they did. There's a reason: the better-risk customers are tapped out, having run up record levels of debt over the past couple of years in a spending boom. This anomaly, according to Joe Jolson, a leading analyst at Montgomery Securities, is "one of the best-kept secrets on Wall Street...
Oklahoma is no stranger to boom-and-bust upheavals. Fickle forces, from the 1930s dust-bowl drought to the 1995 terrorist bombing, have etched the Sooners with a distinct skepticism. Buoyed by the growth of the service sector, Oklahoma's economy is stable, but past upheavals have reverberated in the political realm as well: in 1990 Oklahoma was one of the first states to approve term limits for state legislators. This used to be a Democratic outpost, but in the past few years Oklahoma has swung markedly to the right. And this year may mean that a Republican sweep...
...longer good enough. Tony Ridder, CEO of Knight-Ridder's 17-paper empire, explains that he must answer to many masters. "I've got a number of constituencies: the customers, the communities in which we do business, and I've got the shareholders." And some shareholders remember the boom-boom 1980s, when newspaper profit margins routinely approached 20%. Cold reality hit along with the recession in the early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact...
There has been a boom in ethnic papers, according to the New York Times, with some 20 journals for Russian readers and more than 60 for Vietnamese immigrants. And the San Jose Mercury News has positioned itself as the voice of Silicon Valley, a community defined not only by geography but by technology as well. The Mercury News reported a circulation increase in the past year...