Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Dow has made a nearly 1,000-point recovery in just under two years, Wall Streeters are asking, Can it happen again? Is this boom any different from the last one? "Stock prices have been climbing a wall of worry," says Robert Farrell, the chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, who sees "a significant correction on the horizon...
...York City Democrat Ted Weiss, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among a growing school of defense experts proposing "dual-use" planning by military contractors to seek commercial as well as defense applications for their research and manufacturing efforts. Such planning might help ease the boom-and-bust cycles of defense procurement. Perhaps more important, it could help stimulate the development of new high- technology consumer products, strengthening U.S. economic security at the same time defense firms are bolstering national security...
...result of selling so many cars in the past few years. "The fleet is quite young, the warranties are longer, and the quality is better. People don't feel a pressing need for new cars," says Arvid Jouppi, who follows the industry for Keane Securities in Detroit. The boom has flooded the market with used cars, which are now selling at a steep discount, making them a more attractive alternative to new models. A two-year- old Ford Tempo, for example, sells for $3,500 less than...
...Baltoro Glacier, just short of a sweeping ridgeline called the Conway Saddle. Their fire is aimed over the ridge at similar positions manned by Indian troops seven miles away on the Siachen Glacier, the longest in the Karakoram mountains. When the weather is clear, the big guns sometimes boom round the clock...
...long ago, the answer to the question "What should we do tonight?" seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...