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Miche Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

"Oklahoma" (cultural reference?)

Hi everybody,

Can anybody help me with "Oklahoma" in the following sentence? I think there might be some cultural reference. I presume it is not the state that is meant here, because "Oklahoma" is in inverted commas, so it is probably something else. Here is the sentence:

These two sectors (lending and computer technologies), more than any others, represented "Oklahoma" in the money rush of the last twenty-five years.

Thanks a lot!

Miche
  

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org/wiki/Oklahoma ! ------

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Perhaps it's the musical (but then they should've used the !):

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and everyone rejoices ("Oklahoma!") in celebration of the territory's
impending statehood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!
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Perhaps a reference to the Oklahoma land rush in the 19th century.
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