Middlesbrough is full of security cameras attached to loudspeakers, which occasionally boom out warnings to miscreants.
And early on the governors were very concerned about protecting their resources with boom, and we put a lot of boom out.
Independent publishers like Dynamite and Boom Studios are also putting out great stories (Dynamite publishes the popular Warlord of Mars series, Boom publishes the break out hit Irredeemable), which is terrific because they help keep the big boys honest.
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The additional returns achieved during the boom turn out to be illusory.
Take North Dakota, where a stupendous energy boom radiating out of the Bakken formation has attributed to a tiny 3.1% unemployment rate.
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The greed and destruction that characterised America's buy-out boom have given the era a bad name.
This success in cashing out of earlier deals is further feeding the buy-out boom.
Without it, the energy boom will flow out of our leaky grid like oil from a bad cement-job.
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But to many the firm still embodies the excesses of the buy-out boom.
Many criticised it for being slow to do deals in the buy-out boom and for sitting on too much cash.
The long-running housing market boom could turn out to be a speculative bubble whose bursting damages economic confidence and growth.
Over the next few years, a lot of the debt issued in the buy-out boom of 2006 and 2007 will need refinancing.
The message from this G-20 summit is clear: We must take immediate steps that will prevent the next boom from getting out of hand.
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.
So what we're doing now is we're taking inventory of all the vessels that have presented themselves to determine which ones can go out in deep water -- they've got radio, they've got full equipment, they can actually lay out boom, they can engage in skimming -- which ones aren't able to do that, and that process is going to be coordinated.
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Figures from consulting firm Nielsen show how the baby boom echo is playing out.
But big drug companies could sit out this boom because these markets will be dominated by small, local generic drug makers.
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The other day I was riding the F train home when a group of teenagers with a boom box scooted me out of the way.
This has smoothed out the boom-bust cycle but it also means that there is not the excess housing on the market you would expect in a recession.
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Analysts said that as the mining boom starts to run out of steam, the other sectors of the economy will have to take over and drive growth.
Some commentators feel that the Chinese investment boom must eventually run out of steam, whether for lack of good projects to finance or because the country will shift to a more consumption-led model.
The FOMC also took heart from productivity figures released on August 9th which, though revising down some of the spectacular numbers seen as the economic boom peaked, turned out to be better than some economists had feared.
Or to put it another way, if this particular boom and bust turns out to very different from anything experienced in Spain over the past 30 years - and it might just be - then losses for banks could be rather greater than the consultants have estimated.
Sitting out the credit boom has helped make Beal Bank one of the healthiest banks in the nation.
He sat out the tech boom--a painful call when high-tech stocks soared, but a decision that now looks prescient.
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