Word: boom
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...domestic comedy that reflected America's collective self-image. For the first time ever, Americans could watch a set of characters growing up just as they did. Not until the advent of television would there be any equivalent mass media experience. The Wallets will go through the boom of the 20s, struggle through the Great Depression, after which Skeezix will join the military and fight in the Second World War until he comes home and raises a family of his own during the 1950s. Based heavily on King's own life, as evidenced by the archival materials provided...
...first real success was scored by Hendrum, Minn., less than 30 miles from Fargo, N.D. Since launching its land giveaway in 1994, Hendrum has added 18 homes--not exactly a boom but the first construction in at least a decade. "It has brought a lot to our town," says John Kolness, head of the local economic-development authority. Land values are rising, he says, and Main Street is picking up. The population decline has slowed significantly, and the town still offers free land to folks who will build...
Warren Buffett may be the greatest investor ever. But his long-term philosophy, which was ridiculed as he avoided the dotcom boom--and vindicated as he avoided the bust--is being scrutinized once more. The buy-and-hold billionaire is up to his ears in exotic investments known as derivatives, which are used to bet on things like the weather and the direction of interest rates. Derivatives were at the core of the 1994 bankruptcy of California's Orange County and the 1998 demise of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Buffett once called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction...
...leader so long encrusted in mythology? Fortunately, we've never been in a better position to see him. Along with new interest in the private lives of public figures, new trends in scholarship allow us a fresh chance to see Lincoln as he lived, thought and acted. Following the boom in oral history in the 1960s, today's Lincoln scholars are closely studying the massive body of recollections from people who knew him well, including intimate portraits that had long been neglected or obscured. In the past decade, more than a dozen volumes of essential primary evidence on Lincoln have...
...real estate appraiser for nearly 30 years, I consider the housing market so bizarrely bent that it's seriously Enron-esque. When banks start loaning money to anybody who can sign his or her name, the end of the boom is rapidly approaching. All the greedy little lenders want every available cent invested in something, anything at all. I am sorry to say I am disgusted by what a thoroughly dishonest nation of money-hungry fools we Americans have become...