This is genuine, bottom-up growth, not the boom-and-bust kind that used to characterise the West.

ECONOMIST: A new Republican heartland

Even so, overseeding practices in the Southwest have changed dramatically in the last five to seven years, as the golf industry's overbuilding boom went bust and put pressure on bottom lines.

WSJ: Why Brown Is the New Green | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport

There was just a bit of water on the bottom, and when he checked the rudder and sail and boom everything seemed to be in working order.

NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

All too often pundits and policymakers seek a single cause for social stratification when they should accept that in a nation where inequality in real monetary terms is increasing - and has been doing so for quite some time despite the so-called boom years - the reasons for being at the bottom of the heap are manifold.

BBC: A Point of View: Race, class and house parties