The online classifieds boom has made it infinitely easier to pick up or get rid of a car, a used plasma TV or anything else you can imagine.
Like other mid-sized cities, during the boom years it created lots of private-sector jobs, up 16.2% between 1998 and 2008.
In the mid-90s, a former chief minister decided to shake up the state and join the IT boom revolutionising other parts of India.
Assuming that project takes several years to deploy, the Terminal will need other companies lining up behind it to avoid a potential boom-bust scenario.
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The Scottish government followed it up by releasing analysis in which it said Scotland could be in line for a "renewed oil boom".
Voters may disagree over how much credit Mr Clinton deserves for the boom, but most will concede that he has not messed it up.
During the Web boom, it sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into an effort to catch up with Google online.
The speech was creatively excerpted, political bloggers and cable news commentators blew up the story, it entered the Twitterverse, and boom, Sherrod was asked to resign from her position.
Aside from the ethanol boom pushing up corn prices, critics argue producing the biofuel consumes more energy than it saves and might actually add to global warming concerns.
It contributed to the boom in stock ownership that has helped drive the last three decades of prosperity up until the financial crisis.
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The oil washed up even though workers on the beach have been laying boom along the waterline and replacing it as it gets soaked with incoming oil.
It is irrefutable that eventually the link with the dollar must be given up, otherwise Argentina will continue to suffer the same cycle of boom and bust which it has suffered over the past decade, owing to a monetary policy determined in Washington, rather than Buenos Aires.
It was followed again after the 1990s when Germany's reunification boom and devaluations by some trading partners pushed up its relative wage costs.
The real background to the prison boom, which shows up only sporadically in the prison literature, is the crime wave that preceded and overlapped it.
Cathcart set up First Security Capital in Charleston, S.C. in 1998 and during the tech boom renamed it Derivium.
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