Word: boom
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...MUST-SEE ON ANY TOUR OF OUR HEADQUARTERS IN New York City is the office of senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who edited this week's cover story on the Rocky Mountain boom in addition to our coverage of Michael Jackson's woes and the frantic behind-the-scenes fine-tuning of Bill Clinton's health-care proposal. Instead of a more traditional ficus plant, a 6-ft.-tall inflatable Godzilla peers from one corner of Howard's work space, while Gumby covers the exit. A prehistoric pteranodon (with a 6-ft. wingspan) swoops over story conferences from its perch...
...many ways, the new era is a mirror image of the buoyant 1980s, when inflation and economic growth were higher and debt was desirable. Consumers, businesses and the U.S. government borrowed like mad because they figured the economic boom would keep income and salaries growing faster than the debt. Now that growth has slowed, the mentality has changed completely. The Clinton Administration is increasing taxes to fight the deficit, and consumers and corporations are frantically digging out of debt. "I encourage people to wipe the 1980s from their minds from the point of view of investment strategy, because the hyperinflation...
...boom time in the Rockies. While most of the U.S. is suffering from the blues, or stuck in an outright funk like California, the six states along the spectacular spine of the Rockies -- from Montana in the north through Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah to New Mexico in the south -- are prospering happily. This is the good-news belt. Since 1991, economic growth has regularly exceeded 5%, compared with an anemic 1% in the rest of the country. The last time the U.S. as a whole enjoyed comparable growth was 1984. The Rockies' unemployment rate is 5.4%, nearly 2 points...
...region owes much of its boom to the energy bust of the mid-'80s, which forced companies to downsize and the states -- notoriously overreliant on natural resources ever since the silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid...
...Hard in a hospital. A zillion bad guys are terrorizing the place, and our indestructible cop hero must mow them down, holding a bazooka- size pistol in one hand -- and a newborn child in the other. No problem. Blam! and a villain's blood splatters a maternity-ward window. Boom! and a few more miscreants eat carpet. Surveying the scene, the cop shields the baby's | eyes and says jauntily, "Hey, X-rated action...