Sentences with phrase «boom boom town»

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With so many beaches, booming cities and mountain towns across America, the choices can be daunting.

Signs of the tourism boom abound in Siem Reap, the town near many of the hundreds of temples constructed during the Khmer Empire, which once stretched from Myanmar to Vietnam.

The Great Recession has managed to do what past downturns never could: bust America's boom town.

For example, a business is more likely to sell for a higher value in a major metropolitan area that is booming, versus a similar sized business in a small regional town that is having it really tough.

Seattle once had a rep as a boom - and - bust town that might experience rapid growth but could also hit the economic skids quickly, for instance if Boeing had layoffs.

But, before accusing others of failure, it is sobering to look at remarkable examples of poverty in boom town Perth.

And this is coming from a Baby Boomer who ran for town mayor.»

A recent study revealed that a small, oil boom town in North Dakota fetches rents that are, on average, $ 2,400 for a one - bedroom apartment.

Some 70 years after the Great Depression delivered a mighty blow to this once wealthy industrial boom - town, Buffalo is finally on the upswing.

An early business hauling manure to local farms using a surplus army truck evolved into a lucrative outfit dedicated to transporting uranium ore out of Elliot Lake, Ont., during that town's 1950s boom.

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

Everyone who has lived here a while knows that the boom is not going to last, including Sondra Eoff, who is footing about half the $ 80 million bill for the downtown project, meant to help keep the town vibrant for the longrun and not just during boomtimes.

The city, however, has become known as a startup boom town in the US.

Q: Fort McMurray is a resource town and, as such, is subject to the boom - and - bust aspect of oil's price.

There's no denying that this former little Texas town has recently become a booming hub for entrepreneurial and tech activity; it's been rumored that 110 people move here every single day.

There's no denying that this former little Texas town has recently become a booming hub for entrepreneurial and tech activity; it's been rumored that

The heavy pressures of a being boom - town have created many unique growth and social challenges in this northern Alberta community that could easily become an issue in a locally - focused by - election.

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

Instead the seers have grown wealthy as a result of their claims — and so has their town, which has boomed as a result of the «Madonna gold rush».

I will stock up on this in T town BOOM.

«Before the peso devaluation, Brownsville was a booming town,» remembers Pete Charles, president and owner of Rikeln Inc., which owns the 29,000 - square - foot Foy's Supermarket in Mission, Texas, and the 31,000 - square - foot El Globo.

Keath says business in town has stalled somewhat since boom years in 2005 and 2006, and the strong relationship the store has with its customers has done a lot to help keep it afloat.

Oz - Town is a fresh new approach that gives Australian companies access to the rewards of the booming Chinese market while negating the perils of such a large and complex marketplace.

The city has had a boom and bust history first as the capital of the region and important shipping center during the gold rush years, and then as a party town during Prohibition.

Renaissance Place was for a short time a ghost town, a boom - era citadel where I'd once had my dream job.

Located in the booming foodie town of Charlottesville, VA, Parallel 38 is a new type of restaurant whose menu is inspired by the world's most iconic food and wine regions (Alicante in Spain, Italy's Calabria, the Greek Ionian Islands, Napa Valley and Charlottesville)-- all of which sit along the 38th parallel.

GeoCities gave you the chance to run your own internet boom town.

In the last 30 years, it has become known as «The Little Apple,» and is a booming town full of families.

In a district with 22,000 students (67 percent eligible for free or reduced meals) located in a population - boom town (4th fastest growth in the US), everything starts in a 12,000 square foot central production facility where nearly 100 percent of the district's meals are prepared from scratch and sent out in bulk to schools.

Destruction of thousands of houses during WW2 sparks major boom in council housing, shaped by New Towns Act 1946 and Town and Country Planning Act 1947

The towns which relied on them are now full of older, discontented baby boomers.

The Capital Region town of Bethlehem is facing a potential housing boom with more than 1,200 units in the construction pipeline, new town supervisor David VanLuven said during his «state of the town» address.

The town we live near was a booming steel town back in the 1970s.

The town of Bethlehem is facing a potential housing boom with more than 1,200 units in the construction pipeline, new town supervisor David VanLuven said during his «state of the town» address Monday.

They omitted tourist towns that experience a population boom half of the year and fall silent for the rest, for example.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

«There's a whole body of literature that shows that mining boom towns undergo similar changes,» Beckmann says.

Focusing on just one aspect of lawlessness — sexual predation — the study has found that twice to three times as many sexual predators are flocking to the boom towns as to nearby tourist, ranching and farming communities.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

Petroleum, engineering and construction workers are flooding into the Bakken for the high pay, and more than half the state's employment growth in those jobs took place in Williams County, with the town of Williston at the boom's center.

Hutton's first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small - town life during the present - day oil boom in North Dakota.

Unlike most boom - era mining towns, Coloma was known for its library and school, not its bars and brothels.

Tall and square - headed, with hooded eyes and a booming voice, he was the son of doctors (a neurologist and a family practitioner), had grown up in Bath, a prosperous west - of - England spa town, and joined the Royal Free in November 1988 after training in Toronto, Canada.

Online dating is a boom town with ramifications too deep to ignore, but it might not be wise to put all of our shotgun shells down its barrel.

Mark Brooks: This niche will experience a major boom with the introduction of Cougar Town.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When I first came to the Telluride Film Festival in 1980, screenings were held in Quonset huts and city parks, the old Nugget theater on Main Street, and in the faded glory of the tiny Sheridan Opera House, built when this was a boom town in mining days.

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Entertaining for much of its short runtime, A Town Called Panic deserves a look, especially from those who'd like to see an animated film straying from the lucrative models of the booming CGI market.

The oil boom has brought thousands of new residents to the town, almost all of whom work in the Bakken oil fields in Montana and North Dakota.