Word: boone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time some economists predict that the housing industry, aided by falling mortgage rates, may bounce back later in the year. Last week the Government reported that housing starts during June rose 7%, to an annual rate of 1.4 million. Even so, some experts are cautious about predicting a housing boon because the rise was entirely attributable to an increase in multifamily houses and apartment buildings. There was no growth in single-family-home construction, which forms the largest part of the industry...
...years Soviet officials feared that accurate maps and city guides would be a boon to spies and saboteurs and, as a result, were highly selective in their cartography. The notorious Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters of the KGB was nowhere to be found on most Soviet-made maps. And out in the countryside, rivers, villages and mountains moved with each new edition...
...years ago, when the seven male-dominated unions on Harvard's campus gave their support to the organizing campaign of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), many observers viewed it as a great boon for the fledgling support staff union...
...ditch but helped carve out the little nation around it by supporting secessionists in a malaria-ridden province of Colombia. But no good deed in the pursuit of empire goes unpunished. The legacy that T.R. left his successors has turned increasingly from a strategic and commercial boon to a political curse. The spectacle of Panamanians tearing down U.S. flags marred the last days of Dwight Eisenhower's term and the first of Lyndon Johnson...
...Administration's hard line has settled a feud between the Defense Department, which has championed the FSX deal as a strategic and technological boon for the U.S., and the Commerce Department, which challenged it as a giveaway of fighter technology to Japan. Both agencies now support the White House position. Says Defense Secretary Richard Cheney: "My hope is that we'll be able to get that clarification and resolve our differences with the Japanese...