Word: booming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their asses and watched television." Unfortunately, that failing may be characteristic of good guys elsewhere. Federal strike forces are at work in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York and Florida. If they are anywhere near as successful as they have been in New Jersey, 1970 may prove a boom year for grand juries...
...degree of uncertainty in the minds of businessmen, labor and consumers about the prospect for continued prosperity. Many experts find the present outlook no cause for alarm. Arthur Okun, the former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, calls the chance of either a recession or a continued boom "a long shot." By his handicapping, the Government stands a 50% chance of bringing the inflation rate down to about 4% without causing a politically unacceptable rise in unemployment. Still, Okun insists?as do the other members of TIME's Board of Economists?that it is high time the Federal Reserve...
...never doubted that we'd beat them," said Harrison. "We had beter shooters and I knew we'd come back. We're a team that plays boom-boom-we'll get four points quick. And I knew that the next boom-boom would come." he said...
...least 50% of all income. The Senate also blunted the effect of a presidential measure approved by the House: the repeal of the 7% tax credit that businessmen can claim on new equipment. The Administration wants to abolish the credit in order to slow down a capital-investment boom, but the Senate voted to exempt all equipment purchases under $20,000-an amendment that would cost $720 million of the $6.5 billion in revenue that the Administration hopes to gain from the bill...
...while troops accosted a group of women, including a teen-age girl. The girl was about 13 and wearing black pajamas. "A G.I. grabbed the girl and with the help of others started stripping her," Roberts related. "Let's see what she's made of," a soldier said. "V.C. boom-boom," another said, telling the 13-year-old girl that she was a whore for the Viet Cong. "I'm horny," said a third. As they were stripping the girl, with bodies and burning huts all around them, the girl's mother tried to help her, scratching and clawing...