The biggest selling single in the boom time for chart sales was Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?
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It's clearly a boom time - it was a boom time at least through early 2006 in terms of house prices.
That, in turn, has created a boom time for would-be rare earth miners like Lynas (OTC: LYSDY) and Avalon (TSE: AVL).
Boom time: A sharp increase in births after World War II created the baby boomer generation, born into an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
"Christmas hasn't been a boom time for UK retailers, but it hasn't been complete doom and gloom either, " said Helen Dickinson, the BRC's new director general.
As burgeoning middle classes in emerging markets fuel an explosion in food demand, Deere is seeing farmers use the boom time to replace and expand their machinery.
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Without a big property boom this time around, prices did not have so far to fall.
But far from being an opportunistic asset grab, it was arranged in 2007 at boom-time prices.
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Plus, many of these options will probably never be exercised due to Cisco's boom-time share price.
It may look like boom-time for the High Street now, but the foundations appear pretty shaky to some economists.
But the recession caused the worst downturn for hotels in decades, leaving many properties unable to support hefty debt incurred in their boom-time buyouts.
Research firm Strategic Insight forecasts the industry's boom-time annual growth rate of 25% is likely to slow to 10%, but that's not bad considering the market's troubles.
"Up to 2006, when the tenge was strong, there was a feeling of euphoria, it was boom-time, " says Prasad Bhamre, former vice chairman of the government investment fund and now working in the private sector.
This special report will ask how banks should be run and regulated so that the next time boom turns to bust the outcome will be less miserable for all concerned.
Continued delay now leaves a long boom as the only time to control spending.
By the time the boom ended in 1990, the employment ratio had rocketed to 63% from 57%.
That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.
'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?
Yet, Fort Myers is experiencing a boom right around the same time that Florida Gulf Coast University has demonstrated it has what it takes to compete against bigger, more historically successful institutions.
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But while you could very credibly argue that the ruble was becoming dangerously overvalued during the height of the 2007-08 energy boom, at the present time it would appear that, if anything, the ruble is actually modestly undervalued.
At the same time, the commodity boom is lifting the rural economy by fattening profits for U.S. grain farmers and exporters.
"There's no way we're going back to 70%, " he says, because many first-time buyers during the boom weren't qualified to own homes.
Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
The boom in prices ushered in a time of profits and high valuations in a business where bail-out and bankruptcy had previously been the norm.
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