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.
Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
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.
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.
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.
Despite these problems and the dwindling time, bonuses may still be a viable way for some companies to hold onto their crucial year-2000 workers -- especially those workers who have been with the company for long enough that they didn't benefit from the recent boom in year-2000 salaries.
To handle the expected boom in the home-loan business over the next year, Mr. Roy says he plans to double his mortgage staff to around 2, 000.
The American natural gas boom has been much in the news over the past year.
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But in the eighth year of an economic boom you would not expect to see duff loans rising.
Given the boom in mergers and acquisitions this year, Tilson and Tongue believe that the individual Tyco's parts will prove particularly appealing to private equity investors or a competitor.
During the boom in online publishing in the past year, for example, numerous forums for cultural debate have flourished on the Internet.
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That reflects the boom in leveraged buyouts over the last year.
For instance, a fund with an attractive Sharpe ratio over the past 10 years would have managed to bring in returns to compensate investors for the risk it took through the recession of the early 2000s, the subsequent boom years, the recession that started in 2008 and the volatility of last year.
But the bank said higher interest rates were likely to affect Scotland less than the wider UK economy, with the country's solid industrial base supporting economic expansion during the coming year, as the rising cost of borrowing subdues the boom in public spending.
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.
Obama was poised to be a national hero given his perfect timing, with the typical post recession boom starting in his first year.
Based on this historical record, America should be enjoying the third year of an economic recovery boom right now, like under Reagan in the 1980s.
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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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The U.S. solar boom rolled on in the third quarter with installations jumping 44% over the previous year to 684 megawatts and is on track to end 2012 with a record 3, 200 megawatts, according to a report released Tuesday.
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During the commodity boom in 2001-2008, it shrank by an average of 1% a year, whereas the world's other top 20 mining-export countries grew by an average of 5% a year.
Coal powers the boom in China and coal is at two-year highs.
One year later, I am wondering if the infrastructure boom I am witnessing from our office windows can in any way be less spectacular than the one last year.
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Yet its economy started to grow the very next year, and to boom in 2000.
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Roustabouts' numbers have increased by almost a third, to 54, 200 from 41, 120 a year earlier, reflecting the boom in energy markets.
In the 53rd month of the housing boom-bust cycle the year-over-year rate of monetary inflation was a smallish and quickly decelerating 5.3%.
Australia's government raised interest rates twice - to 5.25% - late last year to cool the construction boom in the housing market and consumer spending.
Founded way back in the heyday of the first Web boom, DoubleClick is an 11-year-old company whose fortunes have risen and fallen along with the Internet ad market.
Reagan favored a strong dollar policy that slayed an historic inflation, and drew skyrocketing investment capital to America from around the world, resulting in an historic, 25 year, economic boom.
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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.
According to the Halifax, a big mortgage lender, house prices rose by 13.6% in the year to December, the fastest increase since the late 1980s boom.
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