Word: boom
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...keyboards; dial into CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or the Internet; and start typing -- E-mail, bulletin-board postings, chat messages, rants, diatribes, even short stories and poems. Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare, the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century...
...recent years. The consensus is that it's around 6% -- about where we are now. But Reich argues that retraining can reduce that natural rate of unemployment by helping workers move from areas of labor surplus to areas of labor shortage. It puts off the moment in any boom when the Fed has to blow the whistle...
...local villagers say, the boat people froze in fear," Barnes reports. "The refugees tried to stay quiet and hide, hoping the (police) boat would pass. Then three shots rang out in the darkness and there was chaos." Panicked boat people pushed others into the water, and the boat's boom broke free, knocking still more people into the sea. The four policemen who had come to stop the fleeing refugees saw the chaos and sped away, leav
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: China Statistical Yearbook, 1993}]CAPTION: UPS AND DOWNS OF THE BOOM...
...paradox of plummeting birthrates at a time when the future should hold great promise is explained by doctors as a psychological reaction to the shrinking job market. The East was never poorer than in the years after 1945, the very period in which the great postwar baby boom occurred. "Then it was a matter of rebuilding amidst the general poverty, with much hope and optimism," says Berlin family researcher Jutta Gysi. "Now, when it comes to young, childless women ((getting sterilized)), the pressure on the job market seems to be so great that they simply don't see any other...