Word: boomlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're really coming back? A Manhattan boutique specializing in trendy '70s memorabilia reports a sales boomlet in vintage Earth Shoes. And negative-heeled shoes continue to be manufactured by the Roots shoe company of Canada; demand is reported to be highest in Japan. By LINA LOFARO
...boomlet of sorts was already visible. Kobe's streets filled with men wearing hard hats and the distinctive uniforms of Japan's leading construction firms. Mammoth earthmovers and jackhammers chipped away at the wreckage of collapsed buildings, while welders fused support bars to cracked and buckled overpasses. Workers were clearing rubble and forging new routes around it. Akio Himeji, an executive of the Yoshida Gumi, a marine- construction company, supervised a pumping operation at the docks to provide emergency water supplies. ``I think,'' he says, ``the next few years will be like the postwar recovery. Our company grew...
...Steel had to absorb further jolts on the stock market, construction-industry issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: U.N. Population Division estimates, World population Prospects: The 1994 Revision}]CAPTION: BABY BOOMLET...
...Vintage Books has rushed out an anthology of 10 poems by W.H. Auden that features Funeral Blues, memorably recited in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Aided by a display showing Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, the $6 book, Tell Me the Truth About Love, is selling briskly. The Auden boomlet must cheer Princeton University Press. In September it will publish Juvenilia, 200 mostly unpublished poems that Auden wrote between...