Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oscar Wilde, could read Dickens' account of the death of Little Nell without laughing. The same is true of the fall of contemporary art auctions. Last week, once again, Sotheby's and Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse...
...with Patrick against them, the Sonics won't boom...
Nancy Curtin, an industrial hygienist with theUniversity's Office of Environmental Health andSafety (EHS), says that with the computer boom,wrist injuries are showing up in situations neveranticipated by experts...
...fourteen years, we've listened to the P.A. announcer boom "and playing at center, from centenary College, Robert Parish." And the fans would respond with their usual chant of "Chief." To a stranger in the Garden, it sounded like boos. But to the faithful, it was just a friendly cheer...
...such experts as these are puzzled, what are new investors to make of the tailspin? That question worries market professionals more than almost anything else. Since the 1987 crash gave way to a new boom, millions of investors have put a few thousand dollars each into the market, mostly by way of mutual funds. The great majority are getting their first bitter taste of a down market. If they panic and sell out, they could turn a downward spiral into a genuine crash...