To date, multi-family has experienced a strong turn-around but is well short of the boom I had been calling for.
One year later, I am wondering if the infrastructure boom I am witnessing from our office windows can in any way be less spectacular than the one last year.
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Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.
Firsthand, I saw the boom transform a rural, working poor society into a confident, aspirational nation.
"I was awake and I heard this boom and it shook my bed, " said Betty Steel, who lives in a retirement village adjacent to the nursing home.
"I heard a loud boom and immediately after that windows were shattered and parts of my house were damaged, " he said.
Then I will focus the bicycle boom and Puck Magazine in particular.
For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.
The Tehachapi has experienced a wind farm building boom in recent years (which as I wrote last year has also collided with the return of the iconic but critically endangered California condor).
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In 1980, I decamped to Houston amid an epic boom fueled by rising oil prices.
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The big economic and emotional crashes I predicted would arise from the punctured boom just haven't appeared VCs are sitting on the biggest funds they've ever had--and for every dot-com they let die by withholding money, two new firms get investments.
They are particularly dependent on selling to economies - that like the UK itself - became far too indebted during the boom years (and to labour the point, I am talking here about the aggregate of household, corporate, banking and government debt, not government debt alone).
But I think this market has the potential to boom a decade or two from now as nostalgia sets in for the printed word.
"I was on the bus and heard a big boom, " said Gal Malcha, an Israeli survivor interviewed by Israel's Channel 2 news.
And I thanked him for the very generous offer of boom and skimmers coming from Japan that can help in what is going to be a very lengthy process of cleaning up the Gulf in the wake of the oil spill.
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Soumpholphakdy is now part of the tourism boom, as owner of the trendy Hotel Sala Prabang, but I could see his point.
Originally, I expected multi-family housing to stage a large boom.
"I thought we had a chance there, and then boom, " said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who watched Louisville pull away for an 85-63 victory in the Midwest Regional final.
As I mentioned the other day, banks' sins during the boom years are costing them - and us - very dear, in fines and restitution to clients.
Yes, the boom was big in percentage terms but not as big in absolute terms as I had expected.
By this I mean that yes, certainly, macroeconomics, the taming of boom and bust, can indeed have effects over short time periods.
"I would be very surprised if we didn't see this boom and bust pattern emerging in these areas as well, " she told BBC News.
For example, I logged onto the Hong Kong-based online broker's site Boom.com recently to check a few share prices.
And what I'm getting at is, in this process of averting a boom and bust economy, do you have a slower term?
The other day I was riding the F train home when a group of teenagers with a boom box scooted me out of the way.
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