Compared to much of the rest of the world, China still looks like a boom town.
He is also nostalgic for the days when Goldfield was a rip-roaring, hard-drinking, sinful boom town.
But the Big Apple is an information boom town compared to Los Angeles (28th), with information employment there dropping 7.3% since 2007.
It was a boom town and he was able to absorb the different cultures from the docks and the theatres that were there then.
With that in mind, it sounds like it's time for a movie of love, loss, big bucks and dirty dealing set in the oil sands boom town of Calgary.
Lago Agrio was named for Sour Lake, the East Texas town where Texaco was established, and, as the oil camp grew into a boom town, pipeline spills became common.
Even as she was starring in movies such as "Boom Town" (1940), Lamarr applied her inventing talents to trying to combat German submarines preying on ships in the North Atlantic.
Runners up, as nominated by readers, go to a handful of oldies: "The Stars Fell on Henrietta, " "Tulsa, " and "Boom Town, " the latter featuring Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
Even a series this broad can't fully limn Tracy's prolific career. (He made more than 70 films.) Thus the terrific "Boom Town" (1940), with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, isn't included, nor is the biopic "Edison, the Man" (also 1940).
In the southern China boom town of Shenzhen last month, four young women started up their own reporting team for a "shanzhai television station" that spoofs local news and uses a camera tripod fashioned from a fan stand and a toilet plunger.
Like a number of employees, Mr. Wang said he was frustrated because he has already spent five months in Taiyuan, and still has no certainty about when he can return to the boom town of Shenzhen, which he prefers to the more provincial, industrial city of Taiyuan.
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Xiaofen, a young legal secretary in the boom town of Zigong, hears bitter and desperate clients recount their tales of personal and commercial woe, but she has problems of her own: her live-in boyfriend is a drunk and a gambler whose chronic debt and jealous anger make her life hell.
As great forces of history converge to human scale, this modern-day boom town feels like the Wild West but without the confident self-reliance: the articulate residents are painfully aware of the close link between their sustenance and their misery, and international bureaucrats reveal a terrible disconnection from the reality on the ground as they encourage the unchecked development.
On March 7th Shenzhen, the boom-town across the border from Hong Kong, floated Shum Yip, a municipal property company.
Getting there took hours upon hours of flight time, one thousand miles north of now oil-boom-town Edmonton, Alberta, flying over an unending expanse of trees, lakes and rocky mineral-laden terrain.
During the banking boom Reykjavik resembled a gold-rush town.
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In the post-World War II prosperity boom, we were the only innovation game in town.
Hotels and restaurants are being erected in almost every part of the town and in nearby beach areas as the construction boom continues.
When the North Texas Oil business took off in 1911, Electra was at the center of the boom as a symbol of American industrialization and prosperity in small town America.
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.
Although the silver boom eventually went bust, another mineral molybdenum proved to be profitable for this mountain town southwest of Denver.
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