Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
...same time, however, Wallach was acting to save GEICO. He cajoled 27 other insurers into buying about a fourth of GEICO's existing auto policies (the insurers had a self-interested motive for agreeing: if GEICO had gone bust, they would have been assessed to help pay claims against its policyholders). That provided time, and cash, for GEICO's new chairman, John J. Byrne, 45, who had been hired from Travelers Insurance Corp. in May, to begin an overhaul...
BOSTON (Epic). Heavy metal's big bust-out band of the year, these five rockers from Beantown stir up a sonic maelstrom in a flashy fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds...
...joined Irvine as planning manager in 1960, admits that he feels "apprehensive" about the impending takeover. One danger is that a new owner may order a sudden speedup in Irvine's growth in order to increase its profits; that could expose the company to the same boom-and-bust cycle that bedevils other developers...
...secondary boycotts at farms where a union has won an election but has not been able to reach a contract agreement with the employer. The state law also created a state board to supervise secret-ballot elections, allows currently employed workers to petition for a decertification election that could bust a union and nullify existing contracts, and gives striking workers the right to vote in union certification elections...