Sentences with phrase «called boom years»

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Last year New York City - based Adafruit did a booming $ 10 million trade in sales of DIY open - source electronic hardware kits, so - called because project designs are free and publicly accessible, and customers are encouraged to modify or «hack» the final product.

The whiskey market's dominance, which was highlighted in a Fortune cover story last year called «The billion - dollar bourbon boom,» continues without any signs of a slow down.

Rosenberg doesn't see a recession for at least another two to three years, calling this the «no boom, no bust» economy.

The boom years of the so - called Roaring»20s were fueled by optimism that the world had fought the war to end all wars, and good times had arrived permanently.

Last year, a friend's roommate was in one of the shows Rodz promotes at a club called La Boom in Queens.

It's hard for some to navigate what authors David and Claudia Arp call «the second half of marriage» — the years that come post-kids — as evidenced by the divorce rate among baby boomers, which has jumped by more than 50 percent over the past 20 years.

12:05 Cameron calls on Brown to admit it was wrong to have abolished boom and bust - it's depressing that he's still coming up with the same stale line of attack he employed last year.

Likewise in the year 2000 a book came out called «The Long Boom» predicting that we were halfway through a 40 year period of unprecedented economic growth that would last until 2020.

He described 2018 as a «good year», calling on the youth to exercise restraint as the Akufo - Addo's government works around the clock to put in measures that will boom the economy.

In spite of all the talk about so - called «boom years» we saw a situation where almost a million and a half people spent the last decade out of work — and the number of households where no one had ever worked doubled.

Chris Giunchigliani, a current Clark County commissioner who once served on the Water Authority board, sees the agency — which she called «the final arbiter» of what can and should be built — as centrally responsible for why Las Vegas» building boom continued through the drought years.

However, the demographic boom the ancestors of the Bantus dates back to between 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, which might call into question the impact of agriculture, which emerged more than 2,000 years later.

Finally, Brian shares his lessons from a company he started called Groovi.com, a pioneer of Web - based authentication services that competed with PayPal back in the Internet boom years.

Last year Sega announced a new Sonic cartoon, called Sonic Boom, and earlier today in the wake of a new promotional image released by Sega and some rumors last week we speculated that we'd be hearing some Sonic news soon.

When its economy was booming five years ago, the Mongolian government went on a spending spree, issuing $ 1.5 billion worth of so - called «Genghis bonds» to build infrastructure.

Sonic Boom will return this year, with Sega announcing a new 3DS installment set to hit this holiday called Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice.

All major acts of violence, all through the last 15 years and all the while video game sales are booming, including the popularity of games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.

At a press event called «2014: Year of Sonic», SEGA properly revealed a new animated series called Sonic Boom featuring new character designs for Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna, Tails the Fox, Amy Rose and Dr Eggman.

For the last five years I have been running an online training programme called Get Clients Now as an accredited trainer, and this article for Creative Boom is based on the ideas of the book, although I have developed them over the years to make them really specific for creative businesses and freelancers, to great success for many of the participants of this training programme.

In December 2000, Wheeler was named Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News and Observer, which called him «the godfather of the Triangle's cultural boom» and cited his skill at melding «arts, politics and commerce into a powerful new cultural force.»

Yet the 27 - year - old Kamaoa Wind Farm remains a relic of the boom and inglorious bust of America's so - called «wind rush», the world's first major experiment in wind energy.

The boom in home solar energy generation — there has been a 60 percent increase in domestic solar installations in the past year — is a threat to ALEC's dirty energy producing members, so they have a bill to amend so - called net metering laws that allow homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the grid.

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One, it is called BOOM, no doubt for all of us baby boomers out here, but the first boomers just turned 65 in the US last year and in Canada this year; most are younger.

In addition, baby boomers, who are those most likely to have these so - called «gold - plated» pensions, are into their «golden years», ushering ever more schemes into the costly pay - out phase.»

«The so - called «Graying of the Bar» — officially under way this year as the first wave of baby boomers turns 60 — is fueling concern that incompetence due to declining skills, failure to keep pace or dwindling mental acuity may soon rise in the legal profession.

Bitcoin similarly boomed on the release of a rival blockchain called bitcoin cash last year, though there were perhaps more stark differences between the two technologies, both propelled by competing ideologies.

A boom in so - called «initial coin offerings» last year has seen the number of cryptocurrencies in circulation rise to over 1,400.

Bitcoin similarly boomed on the release of a rival blockchain called bitcoin cash last year, though there were perhaps more stark differences between the two technologies, propelled by competing ideologies.

Two of the largest segments of the population are the baby boomers, many of whom are now retirement age, and the so - called Millennials (or Generation Y), or those who were expected to graduate from high school around the year 2000.

Yun later speculated that the reason for the growth in these upper - bracket sales is the huge gain in wealth in America from the stock market boom over the last five years (in addition to what Yun called «ultra-loose» lending policy bringing down interest rates that have brought investors into the market).