This was a big bubble, and when it burst it had a big effect.
Boeing's biggest diversification has been the military business that it burst into when it bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997.
"The bulge in my aorta was five times the size and it burst on the operating table, " he said.
Plenty of observers, including this newspaper, identified the housing bubble before it burst.
When it burst, the resulting recession of 2007-2009 was the worst since the Great Depression, and the 2007-2009 bear market was the worst since the 1930s.
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Yet the Bank of Japan began to act about six months after land prices began to slide, while the Federal Reserve was debating whether there was a real estate bubble six months after it burst.
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As well as moving any fallen trees from the river, the authority intends to clear the gravel bar at the bend in the Water of Ruchill, where it burst its banks, to reduce the pressure on the eroded bank.
Fears of a property bubble that, if it burst, could create urban China's first widespread experience of negative equity prompted the authorities in Shanghai last week to announce a 5.5% capital-gains tax on the sale of property held for less than a year.
The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
If people are betting it will burst, could these positions represent the pin that will do the popping?
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The 15-year-old was playing on the inflatable near Claxheugh Rock, South Hylton, when it was burst by his friends.
Human population is probably a bubble and it might burst, as I postulate in my latest science fiction medical thriller The First Horseman.
Montoya's car, the jet dryer and the truck pulling it all burst into flames and also set a section of the track on fire.
If it proves to be a substantial problem for the company, it could burst Google's bubble--as well as the rest of the Internet ad business.
It will burst and leave behind a new education infrastructure.
Four years ago, still doubling, it suddenly burst into view.
But eventually it will burst, and we think those who want to play the game on the long side need to be ready to head for the exits quickly.
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In January Mr Greenspan declared himself fully vindicated in his decision not to prick the stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s, but instead to wait for it to burst and then cut rates sharply to cushion the consequences.
The Federal Reserve's Alan Greenspan has declared himself fully vindicated in his decision not to prick the stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s, but instead to wait for it to burst and then cut rates sharply to cushion the economic consequences.
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As well as making sure that you take precautions to try to avoid frozen or burst pipes it also makes sense to make sure that your insurance policy covers burst and frozen pipes, and any subsequent damage to your property, while it is empty.
They were among more than 50 people who were on the coach when it crashed and burst into flames.
But for a short-lived event such as a gamma-ray burst it means that the same blast may become visible again in the future.
This move signals that the CME believes there is too much speculation going on in the commodities markets and it wants to burst the bubble.
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It spawned a burst of privacy statutes in America and elsewhere.
Scottish Water said it had mobilised an army of staff and additional resources to minimise the impact of the severe weather on their customers after it experienced 305 burst pipes across the country last week, more than four times the normal rate.
Attacking them on the basis that there is a bubble would then be another mistaken intervention by the state in the free market. (Mr Greenspan is a noted libertarian.) On the other hand, if there is a bubble, it will eventually burst anyway.
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