"It's different from a club, where you are right beside your neighbor and you have drinks clanging and waiters serving, " said Martin Kagan, Pace's director of cultural affairs, who also presented Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton-Callaway in their show "Boom" last year.

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Figures from consulting firm Nielsen show how the baby boom echo is playing out.

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Representatives of the oil and gas industry said the EPA revisions show emissions from the fracking boom can be managed.

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With America's astonishing two-decade boom came, as the authors show, wider inequality in incomes, higher job turnover and more temporary work.

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"We don't expect to hit a light switch and boom-50, 000 people will show up, " says Barry Stockhamer, former Dodgers marketing chief, now general manager of the league's Long Beach Armada.

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Moreover, as the Reinharts show, a big part of the problem is that capital flows are endemically boom-bust: money floods in and out.

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The boom is good news for Dakar Fashion Week founder Ndiaye, who hopes the show will one day reach the heights of Paris and New York -- yet with a distinctly African style.

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's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC? (The real estate boom gets more television time than college basketball these days.) Will HGTV's hit show House Hunters be as fun to watch if you know that the happy couple is likely, on paper, to see the down payment they worked so hard to save wiped out in a tumbling market?

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