Word: boom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...statewide monthly radio show. Cuomo also sent a long apology to then-N.R.A. President Howard Pollock, enclosing the Times piece, as well as a transcript of his radio remarks. "My response was inartful," Cuomo wrote, "and could leave a false impression of disrespect for the National Rifle Association." Boom! The N.R.A., which had not been aware of the gaffe, blasted the Governor in a national press release and vowed that its voice, in the form of about 200,000 members in New York State, would be heard at the polls should Cuomo run for re-election next year...
...with liberals and the press. He did away with Philadelphia's old-fashioned mercantile tax, which in effect imposed a sales tax on city goods no matter where they were sold, and replaced it with a more modern tax on corporate earnings. He helped create the current building boom downtown, where some 6 million sq. ft. of new office space is under construction. Says Ralph Widner, executive director of an association of Philadelphia's chief executive officers: "For the first time in 20 years, there is a warm, close partnership between the business leadership and city hall...
...Other musicians who were earning as much as $25,000 a night are now getting $8,500. All this has hog-tied Nashville's style. Says Tandy Rice, the chairman of the Top Billing booking agency: "A bunch of artists rushed out to buy big, fancy buses during the boom, and I think Nashville may become the biggest used-bus city in the nation...
...boisterous back-to-work bash. The growth binge has provided more than 4 million new jobs. But one group, minority teenagers, has found the door to the party all but slammed in its face. The chronic inability of these young people to get jobs, even during a boom time, has become one of the most painful and persistent economic problems facing the U.S. Says Robert Coard, executive director of Action for Boston Community Development: "This syndrome is having a terrible impact on the morale of the minority community and this city in general...
...only do those who argue for more prisons fail to address the social context of crime, their solution establishes a dangerous incentive for continuing high levels of imprisonment. If we spend billions of dollars building new prisons, they will surety be used. The baby-boom generation is rapidly aging. It seems likely that--provided levels of poverty in this country do not continue to grow and thereby feed crime--the number of criminals in the U.S. should soon decline along this demographic trend. The more prisons we build, the greater will be the temptation to imprison people for minor offenses...