If the job market is buoyant, as it is in the fracking boomtown of Williston, N.
The jobless rate of 4.7% is lower even than in that other American boomtown, Washington, D.
The Boomtown Rats split in 1986, not long after they performed at Live Aid, which Geldof organised.
Schultz lists the reasons in Boomtown USA. I don't have the space here to spoil Schultz's story.
After forming in 1975 The Boomtown Rats played early UK shows with The Ramones and Talking Heads.
Mr. Hudec's plan when he arrived in boomtown Shanghai was to make some money, and then go home.
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This boomtown, with a population of about 100, 000, is the starting point for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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But the story is repeated often around here, and it speaks to the carnival-like atmosphere in this boomtown.
It has a dozen check-cashing joints, a roughly equal number of hotels, and a gaming center called the Boomtown Casino.
Dr. Prabhakar Reddy is an emergency room doctor in Bangalore, an Indian boomtown known for its call centers and software factories.
Bob Geldof is also set to front the Boomtown Rats at the event - 26 years after last performing with the band.
The former Boomtown Rats frontman brought together some of the world's leading names in the music business, as part of his campaign.
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Schultz has written a book, Boomtown USA, that examines an emerging trend: Americans, he says, are moving to small towns for quality-of-life issues.
Bob Geldof is to front a reunited Boomtown Rats at the Isle of Wight Festival - 26 years after last performing with the band.
The Boomtown Rats are joined on the festival's line-up by their contemporaries Blondie, along with more up-and-coming acts like Jake Bugg and Emeli Sande.
At present, and as evidenced by the boomtown that Washington, D.
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Despite its boomtown tag, Baku still has only two passable hotels.
The Boomtown Rats scored 14 hit singles in the UK charts between 1977 and 1984 - including two number ones - and released five hit albums.
The latest census, in 2001, would take six seats from La Paz, the capital, and the impoverished Altiplano, and give four to Santa Cruz, an eastern boomtown.
But if that customer slips and falls, or has too much to drink and crashes her car, the Boomtown Belle II ceases to be a boat at all.
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The next year, New Wave Style expanded to a 40, 000-square-foot space in Rana Plaza, located in Savar, a former agricultural area on Dhaka's outskirts that was fast becoming a garment-industry boomtown.
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The Boomtown Rats will join a line-up also featuring The Killers and Bon Jovi, who have already been announced as headliners for the first major festival of the summer, in June.
They have also requested financial information from Universal Music - the record label which released a Boomtown Rats greatest hits compilation and re-mastered versions of their six studio albums earlier this year.
Unlike the mafia bosses of the thirties, such as Bugsy Siegel, who helped turn Vegas into a gaming boomtown, Hsieh is attempting to turn Vegas into a Tier II technology startup destination, like Boulder, CO.
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