Word: bustingly
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...bust came only three days before Barry had planned to announce his candidacy for an unprecedented fourth term. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 18, shortly after he picked the winners in a homestead auction, Barry waltzed into Room 727 of the Vista International Hotel, just six blocks from the White House. It is also only two blocks from another Washington hotel, where 13 months ago police mysteriously aborted a planned arrest of Charles Lewis, a suspected drug dealer, when they learned that Barry was in his room...
...evening, and together we walk toward the border, passing by the embassy of the U.S.S.R., a huge imperial palace with a bust of Lenin bathed in subdued light...
...once down-and-out places like Houston, Salt Lake City and Gary, where newspapers are thick with help-wanted ads. But shun former go-go hot spots such as Boston, Phoenix and Atlanta, where 1980s-style booms in everything from computers to construction have suddenly gone bust...
...boom-and-bust cycles are sharply affecting U.S. housing prices, which reflect regional economic health. In Houston, gone are the bad-old-days of the mid-1980s when U-Haul trucks streamed out of town as unemployment rose above 12%. A combination of stable oil prices and the arrival of new businesses has sparked a rebound in Houston home values. At the same time, Northeast housing prices are sinking and the explosive growth of California home prices has begun to cool...
...metaphor through which Moore explores several serious social, political and economic issues is his hometown, Flint, Mich., a boom-and-bust factory community that hit bottom again in the mid-'80s, when its principal employer, General Motors, began a series of layoffs that, according to Moore, eventually cost the city some 35,000 jobs. This created a ripple effect afflicting, it would seem, almost every other business, almost every citizen...