Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coach just emphasized tonight that we...basically make simple passes and the openings will open up," Konik (three assists) said. "We got it up high and worked it down low, and boom--the cross-ice pass was open...
...going to do me any good to say, 'I'm here to listen. I'm here to learn,' because [the students will] say, 'She's just going to say she's here to listen, she's here to learn, because in a year she's going to lower the boom," Kidd said. "[I'd like to tell them] they're lucky to get me, because I care tremendously about what they care about...
...Nielsen survey also seems likely to spark a boom in further research. Niche marketers will want to slice the study's broad demographic categories (gender, age, income) into ever finer segments--something the Net facilitates by allowing marketers to gather data on its users with every click of a mouse. And companies with more global ambitions will want to extend the polling data beyond North America into the more than 160 other countries that can be reached through the Internet...
Next came Bangalore, where world-class software engineers are leading a boom that has made it Asia's fastest-growing city and India's answer to the Silicon Valley. Business leaders told us this success depended on deregulation, investment in human capital and internationalization--like the daily video conferences between some Bangalore firms and their corporate brethren in the U.S. Our visit to a slum vividly demonstrated how unevenly the benefits of growth are distributed, but India's dynamic Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred...
They enter sporting chic bobs, shifts, minis, Airwalks, tie-dyes, shirtsleeves. The crowd includes wide-eyed preteens as well as graying members of the baby-boom generation. "I spent five hours here yesterday going through Netscape and playing computer games," says Davie, an affable 12-year-old who is sweetening a latte and proving that not all young Manhattanites are the Colt 45-swilling troublemakers depicted in the film Kids. "I like the drinks here--and the snacks...