Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charan is a Dallas-based adviser to CEOs and co-author, with Noel M. Tichy, of Every Business Is a Growth Business...
...1950s and '60s, TIME lionized the Capitalist as Hero in a flock of fact-packed if somewhat breathless cover stories. They were rather typical of the uncritical coverage in this age of conformity and steady growth. The 1955 Man of the Year was General Motors' central-casting CEO Harlow Curtice (he was Hollywood-handsome, tungsten-tough, up-from-the-bottom, etc.); that year, GM also topped FORTUNE's first 500 list. TIME created a sensation by spotlighting the little-known Jean Paul Getty as the world's richest private citizen...
...during this period that America's shareholders and entrepreneurs fast expanded, and few knew better how to benefit from that growth than bouncy Malcolm Forbes, the ultimate Capitalist Tool. His Scottish-immigrant father, Bertie C. Forbes, a popular Hearst business columnist, had launched the fortnightly Forbes in 1917 and profited from inspirational profiles of company leaders. The very first editorial in this very first U.S. business magazine began, "Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions...
1920s Painful depression in 1920 and 1921. The downturn is immediately followed by unprecedented growth. By 1929, nearly every household in America...
1960s The cold war and the Vietnam War feed the military-industrial complex. This decade witnesses the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history...