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His huge 1981 tax cuts largely survived and helped set off a boom of innovation, invention and job creation that is still with us today.
The entire region's economic boom could be thrown off course.
For the past decade production in the North Sea has been dwindling but a new boom in gas extraction off the east coast may soon reverse that downward slide.
So much so that the sort of boom that would be needed to bring them back into employment is aso the sort of boom that would set off the inflation alarms.
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In other incidents, cranes have dropped loads or come close to falling apart, including a dramatic episode in which a crane's arm, or boom, nearly snapped off during Superstorm Sandy and dangled precariously over a midtown Manhattan block.
From 1976 to 2000, a boom in consumer spending touched off an explosive demand for new advertising inventory.
Germany pulled off an export boom last year, despite the strong euro.
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In America, mortgage rates have been rising over the past two months, choking off the refinancing boom that has propped up consumer spending.
The low tax rate would set off an economic boom by letting people keep more of what they earn and by lowering barriers to risk taking.
The demolition of the Third Avenue Elevated subway line set off a building boom and a white-collar influx, most notably of young educated women who suddenly found themselves free of family, opprobrium, and, thanks to birth control, the problem of sexual consequence.
Tax cuts, tort reform and telecom deregulation--if passed--would set off a capital spending boom to shame the 1990s.
They've performed very, very sluggishly, in fact a steep fall-off from the Internet boom to where we are now.
This off-campus building boom is forcing schools to up their game, though slashed budgets have left minimal funds to erect new residence halls.
Ranbaxy was on the way to becoming one of the world's leading makers of generic drugs, just as the boom in such products was taking off in the mid-1990s.
Despite all the initiatives and proposals mentioned in the green paper, the best hope for the government and its key workers is that the current housing boom in the south will cool off.
Was the bicycle boom of the 1890s when biking took off in this country?
The latest figures suggest that the house-price boom in Britain itself is finally cooling off.
Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
SecondMarket, an online platform for these types of transactions, has experienced a boom in traffic and volume, capping off its most successful fourth quarter and full year ever.
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It all sounds suspiciously like the subprime mortgage boom, when banks parked illiquid assets in off-balance-sheet vehicles.
The Fed is currently focused on stoking economic growth, but Bernanke may be betting that the current commodities boom will end, or at least taper off, stabilizing oil prices and easing consumer inflationary pressures.
The practice took off during the real-estate boom of the 2000s, as developers flush with cash, working with investment-hungry town governments, turned so-called underutilized properties into big-box retail stores and in many cases upscale residential-commercial developments.
The semiconductor industry is extremely cyclical, enjoying unusual growth in boom times when electronic equipment and computers are flying off the shelves, and significant softness in economic slowdowns.
Though many retailers across the region, perhaps surprisingly, spy benefits in price transparency, the cross-border shopping boom, also maybe surprisingly, has not set off a public chorus for euro membership.
After Reaganomics was adopted in 1981, the economy took off on a 25-year economic boom in late 1982, what Art Laffer and Steve Moore have rightly called the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet.
Natural-resource companies, particularly in mining, have recently been writing off billions in poor investments made during the boom.
Hopes of a sustainable recovery will depend on deleveraging by both consumers and firms, an effort to pay off the debt that piled up during the boom.
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