Word: boom
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...bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth shaped like a howitzer is told: "Now shoot off your face" - the mouth goes BOOM! - "and baloney is flying all over the place." The hysteria is spread by airborne sausage skins, baloney balloons, are flying in formation (in misinformation formation, that is) with news that "the Japs are in California!", the Nazis have bombed the Brooklyn Bridge, they're parachuting onto the White House lawn, until, within...
...London. During one particularly long night of proofreading PowerPoint slides and commiserating by phone about finding yet another error courtesy of their companies' in-house document service, they had an epiphany. They would find a better way of doing that work. This was at the height of the dotcom boom, and everyone they knew was trying to figure out a way to Silicon Valley. These two had a different idea. They would go to India, set up a team of accountants and desktop-publishing experts and persuade investment banks in New York to outsource their confidential financial documents and client...
DIED. JOSE LOPEZ PORTILLO, 83, who as President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 led a free-spending, corruption-ridden oil boom that took the nation to the brink of economic collapse, setting off a global debt crisis; in Mexico City. An otherwise affable personality who spent early mornings practicing javelin throws and late evenings poring over literature, he was Mexico's Secretary of Finance before his election as President for a term so unpopular that he had to move to Europe for several years after he left office...
...DIED. JOS? L?PEZ PORTILLO, 83, who as President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 presided over a free-spending, corruption-ridden oil boom that took the nation to the brink of economic collapse, setting off a global debt crisis; in Mexico City. An affable personality who spent early mornings practicing javelin throws and late evenings poring over literature, he was Mexico's Secretary of Finance before being elected President for a term so unpopular that he had to move to Europe for a few years after he left office...
...Economists warn of a crash waiting to happen: if too many factories make too many goods chasing too few buyers, the results are likely to be deflation, widespread business failures, layoffs, loan defaults and shaky banks. And with many other Asian countries retooling their economies to fuel China's boom, the knock-on effects down the supply chain could be devastating. "Overinvestment will lead to a supply shock that will affect the whole world," predicts Dong Tao, chief Asia economist for Credit Suisse First Boston...