Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans in 1995 kept a wary, ambivalent eye on both Clinton and Gingrich, the famous fraternal twins of American power, yin and yang of the Baby Boom, polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue. A generation or two ago, leaders were father figures. For better and for worse, Clinton and Gingrich--powerful yet indefinably immature--give off a bright, undisciplined energy, a vibration of adolescent recklessness...
...early in the next decade. Congress over several years had already expanded access for pregnant women. In addition, the number of disabled people on Medicaid is expected to grow much faster than the overall rolls, as more uninsured Americans become aware of these services and the baby-boom generation ages. This expansion will be accompanied by an increase in the very old. The population age 85 and over, 20% of whom now live in nursing homes, will rise 50% during the 1990s. A patient's annual nursing-home care can run to $35,000; a poor child's overall health...
...very size of Magellan has helped propel a technology-stock boom that some investors believe is due for a bust. Mutual funds that invest solely in computer and electronics companies have enjoyed returns of as much as 50% to 70% so far this year. But the sound of bursting bubbles echoed last week after Smith Barney technology analyst Jonathan Cohen questioned the high prices of some of the most speculative offerings on the NASDAQ exchange. Netscape, which traded as high as 161 that day, fell 28 3/4 points when Smith Barney said the Internet software company was probably worth...
...embryonic development. Flatworms have four, arthropods like fruit flies have eight, and the primitive chordate Branchiostoma (formerly known as Amphioxus) has 10. So around 550 million years ago, Erwin and the others believe, some wormlike creature expanded its Hox cluster, bringing the number of genes up to six. Then, "Boom!" shouts Jablonski. "At that point, perhaps, life crossed some sort of critical threshold." Result: the Cambrian explosion...
...have the chance to witness the greatest economic boom and spiritual renewal in America's history," Forbes said. "We need to remove the cinder-blocks around the legs of America to move ahead. We need to give individuals the opportunity and responsibility to shape their own lives...