Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
StanChart point out that their prediction of a construction boom next year hinges on government policy.
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Sure developed markets like Germany have enjoyed a GDP boom this year, even beating at least one BRIC, Russia, in the first quarter.
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Mr Albanese was not the only boss of a big mining firm to misread the robustness of China's rampant growth, which had driven a six-year boom in commodity prices and made mining unimaginably profitable.
Roustabouts' numbers have increased by almost a third, to 54, 200 from 41, 120 a year earlier, reflecting the boom in energy markets.
Conseiller Charles Maitland, from the Chief Pleas, said Sark was just coming out of a three-year building boom.
Falling prices and the looming expiration of the production tax credit, which pays a premium for wind energy, unleashed a wind farm building boom last year.
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With Soviet funds, Cuba's presses turned out more than 50 million books a year in the boom times but the demise of the USSR sent production plummeting.
After Reaganomics was adopted in 1981, the economy took off on a 25-year economic boom in late 1982, what Art Laffer and Steve Moore have rightly called the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet.
This is particularly alarming for Thailand, which grew at a reasonable 4.6% last year on the back of a consumer boom.
To say, then, that in 45 days the world has gone from global-liquidity surplus to drought is to believe that the 25-year boom was a mirage, or else that all its profits were tossed into Miami and Las Vegas construction holes.
The black middle class is growing by 50% every year and fuelling a consumer boom.
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We have had an unprecedented 15-year economic expansion, a boom interrupted only by the 1990-91 recession.
Indeed, there is growing evidence that the American economy is overheating despite the chilly breeze from across the Pacific: consumer spending continues to boom, unemployment is at a 30-year low of 4.3%, and inflation is starting to creep up.
President Ronald Reagan did it in 1981, leading to a 25-year, generation long, economic boom that spread worldwide.
And the recent five year real estate boom there has a good five more years before home values stop appreciating.
But concerns that China's economy was overheating led to action by the country's government last year, to cool down a construction boom by squeezing credit.
But 1920 beats that with ease, with probably well over 1.1 million live babies born in the UK as a whole, well above the post-WWII boom year of 1947, comfortably above the peak of the baby boom of the 1960s and far above the latest figures.
During the recent minerals boom, production actually shrank by 1% a year, whereas it surged by an annual average of 5% in the rest of the world.
This was the fourth event - the start of a renewed collapse of the birth rate, perhaps its longest and fastest ever, only a year later, quite unlike the more sustained boom of the 1960s and completing a sequence of down, up and then down again in the space of a few years by magnitudes that make you wonder how midwives, hospitals, schools and others coped on this rollercoaster.
During the boom, you typically saw 50 islands change hands a year, he says.
In 2011 building permits were issued for 4, 285 units in Washington, more than one and a half times the total in any year during the real estate boom.
More recently, technology joined the party, with a high of 89 Forbes list entries in the dot-com boom year of 2000, then 42 in 2005 and 40 in 2010.
Hedge funds and other investors have used the yen carry trade to drive a boom in U.S. credit and equity markets in the last year.
The Tehachapi has experienced a wind farm building boom in recent years (which as I wrote last year has also collided with the return of the iconic but critically endangered California condor).
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Although for PE 2011 was lackluster overall, last year was a tale of two halves, with PE experiencing both boom and bust compressed into a single 12-month span.
What really set the South Korean authorities worrying that the credit boom was getting out of hand were media reports last year that a bank had given a family's pet dog its own credit card.
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