Hanson argues that American growth was driven by an export boom, but no such boom occurred.
"It could have been smoldering for days, " he said, noting there was no explosive boom.
There are no jobs and no companies without investment, and there will be no major investment boom absent a stronger dollar.
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No amount of boom will protect waterbirds like pelicans, gulls and terns, because diving into the water for fish is how they eat.
The inevitable conclusion: there is no media tablet boom (yet).
The one person who deserves no credit for this boom is Barack Obama. in fact, this Administration has bent over backwards to make oil and gas production and exploration as difficult as possible.
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Moreover, the decades-long commodity boom shows no sign of abating.
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In that sense it's no surprise that every industrial boom--from oil in the 19th century, to autos in the early 20th, to technology in the late 20th century--was largely characterized by American entrepreneurs.
Supersonic Aerospace International have been developing a 12-seater luxury aircraft, the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) jet, which they hope will take to the skies in 2013 and reduce the noise of the sonic boom to no more than the noise level of a truck driving past your window.
No state illustrates this pattern of boom, bust and forced boom better than California.
The buildings look thrown together, as if no one had believed that the boom might last.
But Australia's boom has been no one-day wonder: its growth has averaged almost 4% over the past 13 years as a whole.
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We've reached a stage where there's no longer a question of when the boom's going to end.
They do not have much other leverage: thanks to the oil boom, Russia is no longer dependent on foreign loans to stay afloat.
No one was crying foul in the boom years, when New York government coffers were swollen with income taxes and property taxes paid by Wall Street firms and workers.
Given the global PC boom, it's no surprise that computer-related companies are among the 1000's strong performers.
In that sense, hard cases like RIM are misleading if they lead us to assume that the specter of shareholder activism will no longer haunt the marketplace once the next boom presumably occurs.
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But they have been among the worst sinners during the Asian boom years, investing with no apparent regard for economic return and, collectively, running up debts five times the size of their equity.
It is perhaps no coincidence that these decades saw the greatest ever boom in seaside building in America.
Then little-known start-ups like Baidu were just getting off the ground, and the web and mobile communications boom that today ranks the country No. 1 in users of both was still relatively young.
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Our first choice was to hire local workers, but no Canadians applied due to both the massive construction boom under way in preparation for the Winter Olympics and demand for workers in the oil and gas industry.
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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Bharti, being no slouch, piled on and benefited from the ensuing boom.
Educated in the United Arab Emirates, Pallavi is in no doubt that there is a connection between the building boom and the rising number of young women studying architecture.
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