Word: boom
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Given the current bagel-building boom, few Americans will be able to avoid them. With remarkable velocity, the bagel is joining America's basic fast-food group--pizza, hamburgers, chicken and tacos--as competitors race one another across the country to create bagel-shop chains before this latest hole in the market is filled. Bagel sales have reached about $3 billion and are growing more than 20% annually, according to Lehman Brothers. Sales in bagel shops and bakeries increased roughly 50% last year, according to Bakery Production and Marketing, a trade magazine...
...life-span of Americans is increasing, and because the disease most often strikes men who are in their 60s or 70s, more of them are now afflicted. When the baby-boom generation matures, the number will balloon. "As men live longer and do not succumb to heart disease and stroke, more will die from prostate cancer," says Dr. William Catalona, a urologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "And it is not a nice death...
...boom is giving way to backlash. In a state-by-state slugfest, grass-roots groups are battling the gambling industry in ballot referendums, court suits and local legislatures. In Louisiana the public outcry over a bribery scandal involving video poker and the bankruptcy of a planned $800 million casino in New Orleans prompted the Governor to convene the legislature in special session this week to consider an outright ban on both types of games. Last week Kansas and Maryland legislators defeated measures to allow slots at racetracks and off-track betting parlors. In the past three months nine states have...
...SCENE RIGHT OUT OF THE BIRDS. OUTSIDE the New Hampshire home of former state senator Barbara Pressly on a freezing winter afternoon, a lone cameraman appeared; then a second camera; then four boom mikes. Twenty minutes later, when the press was invited inside, 50 men and women with full field packs stampeded toward the front door. Finding myself by happenstance between them and their goal, I had a fleeting sensation of what General Custer might have seen in his last moment on this earth...
NASCAR has not made many similar mistakes since. The nation's premiere stock-car-racing league is in the midst of a boom that has turned it into a $2 billion-a-year industry and a high-performance marketing success. In the process the sport is moving beyond its good-ol'-boy roots and finding a new audience in yuppie America. Live attendance at NASCAR Winston Cup races passed the 5 million mark last year, having more than tripled since 1980. ESPN's national television audience for NASCAR races jumped more than 30% during the same period...