Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guarantees that the new system will be up two years earlier than IDO's projected completion date in March 1997. In the view of IDO president Takeo Tsukada, that would lead his still unprofitable company to "certain bankruptcy." Motorola says anything less would keep it out of the cellular boom expected to start in April, when new regulations permit Japanese consumers to own phones instead of just renting them. Tokyo, meanwhile, insists that the remaining tangles are just a business dispute between private companies. "Washington is asking us to guarantee Motorola's business," complains a Japanese official...
...really poised, arrived to confront a solid wall of press. Asked of her feelings toward her rival last week, Kerrigan said, "I think it's personal, and between the two of us and not you guys." When she chatted with her coaches and doctor at rinkside, someone lowered a boom mike to pick up the conversation. "Can they do that?" she asked. Says Evy Scotvold: "She just can't get any space. She's never had this kind of impact." Now that Harding is Norway-bound, the frenzy will be greater. Both American contestants face a battle for focus...
...program executive for Tycom Entertainment, a pay-per-view operation "somewhere in a 500-channel television universe," is searching for a blockbuster programming event. "We're in trouble, Jess," says her boss (Len Cariou). "Movies don't work; screen's still too small. Sports is dying. The sex boom is over. Where the hell are we going...
Before an audience of 300, the ex-U.S. Senator, now a State Department Counselor for Global Issues, stressed the importance of reproductive and human rights for women as a solution for the population boom...
America has already been trying to jail its way out of the crime problem -- with discouraging results. Over the past two decades, the U.S. has hosted the biggest prison-construction boom in history, laying out $37 billion, with $5 billion more in the pipeline. Yet the pool of street criminals keeps rising. In the past decade, the number of federal and state inmates has doubled, to 925,000, while the local jail population has nearly tripled, to 450,000. State by state, the outlook is bleak. Washington, for instance, has witnessed a 79% increase in its jail population...