Word: booming
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...interests with what's good for everyone. This is true no matter who is in power, Mahbubani says. Indeed, the architects of the U.S. response to the Asian financial crisis were then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin?now practically worshipped in the U.S. as the man behind the Clinton boom years?and Larry Summers, who succeeded Rubin as Treasury Secretary. Devout Bushies they are not, but neither saw the disconnect that to many Thais seemed utterly obvious after the fact: between what was good for America and what was good for Thailand...
Though students still fit comfortably into the Yard and each of the eight River Houses in the early 1950s, the population growth phenomenon now known as the Baby Boom was just beginning to make itself heard in the halls of higher education...
...Pusey and other administrators had their fingers on the pulse of the problem before experts released their reports on the reverberations of the Boom. Already concerned by a freshman class size 50 men larger than expected, House Masters and administrators alike were meeting to discuss the projected rise in applicants and exactly how Harvard could absorb the next wave of scholars...
...hard to remember that a house, boom or bust, remains the place where you kick off your shoes at the end of the day. Carol Connelly, 53, and husband Mike, 52, live in a 4,000-sq.-ft. house in the small central Michigan town of Gobles. The Connellys used to live in Chicago, where they sold their Lincoln Park house for $450,000--having paid $208,000--giving them enough money to buy their place in Gobles outright, leave their high-pay, high-pressure jobs and spend more time with their kids...
...that was in 1996, before the boom. A coldhearted investor could say the Connellys, for all their success, screwed up. Little Gobles is not exactly the white-hot center of the real estate inferno. If they had continued trading up for nine years--buy, fix, sell, buy, fix, sell--there's no telling how much profit they could have made. (Their Chicago house, they say, would now sell for more than $750,000.) And if they had plowed that profit into a second investment property ... and a third...