South Africa has yet to see an Internet start-up boom like that in America or Europe.
This is genuine, bottom-up growth, not the boom-and-bust kind that used to characterise the West.
At its most prosperous, during the construction boom in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, San'ya was home to 15, 000 day labourers.
While debate continues over whether and how stimulus dollars should be used, the Tri-Cities area that surrounds the Hanford site -- which includes Richland, Kennewick and Pasco -- is reaping the benefits of the clean-up boom.
But the Fed-fed inflation fired up the housing boom to white-hot levels.
Like other mid-sized cities, during the boom years it created lots of private-sector jobs, up 16.2% between 1998 and 2008.
But in their state of boom-induced euphoria, the lenders stopped up their ears.
While boom-to-bust Phoenix is turning up, areas like Atlanta continue to struggle.
He said during the real-estate boom, sales were driven up by "artful credit conditions, but now with tight credit, "prices are more real.
"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.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
This off-campus building boom is forcing schools to up their game, though slashed budgets have left minimal funds to erect new residence halls.
There were two--and arguably three--buttons that engaged the supply-side revolution, which, in turn, set up the U.S.' long economic boom from 1983--2007.
One of the world's biggest cranes, with a 500-foot boom, will sit between the two big foundation holes, pluck the already-built sections up and drop them into place.
Thanks to the technology boom, the opportunities to work for a start-up, or start one yourself, have multiplied.
Mr Clinton ended up presiding over the high-tech boom and a surge in the number of small businesses.
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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But male suicide rates went up during the boom years of the mid-1980s and late 1990s, which suggests that cash does not necessarily lead to contentment.
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The San Francisco-based start-up is attempting something that was attempted before about a decade ago during the dot-com boom: to act as an infomediary between consumers and advertisers.
Still, whether they are in coastal beach shacks or rubber-boom-era buildings in the Amazon, cevicherias really fill up on the weekends, when a visit becomes an all-day affair with friends and family.
Lots of successful businesses that started up in China over the boom years of 2005-2008 might have gone public by now.
He thinks 80% of Americans have not benefited from the post-2002 economic boom, and that these 80% are up to the eyeballs in debt.
The recovery won't match the boom-bust follies of 1987-92, when rents shot up 40-60% in a year and five years later were falling almost as fast.
The real Greek tragedy is that in the boom years of 2000 through to 2007 there was the build-up to the Athens Olympics of 2004, and the dividend that followed.
Some will say the banks are partly to blame for the sluggishness of the economic recovery, having pumped up the leverage in the boom years and now - in this era of so-called de-risking and deleveraging - starving businesses with good growth prospects of the credit they so badly need.
After almost three years of living in Vietnam, I returned to the U.S. and quickly found myself caught up in to the boom and bust of the dot-com era.
That breach boom is likely convincing companies to shore up software vulnerabilities in their inhouse-coded applications.
Just as the baby boom of the late 1950s and 1960s pushed up the number of first-time buyers in the 1980s, so the baby bust of the 1970s has depressed the number of first-time purchasers.
His play, The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble, managed to explain the boom and bust in credit derivatives leading up to the financial crisis of 2008-09, all with the help of a crazy parable involving goats.
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