Sentences with phrase «dollar building boom»

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A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

Among other signs of its resurgence, Crescent City has undergone a building boom — with luxury hotels and a billion - dollar state - of - the - art health center, and more sporadic rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward.

In what one cleric called the «boom of numbers and dollars and buildings,» too many suburban parishioners had been recruited, as Bishop Lord remarked, «who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.»

The building was purchased at the height of the real estate boom in Toronto with loans and gifts of over one million dollars from founding families.

«This expansion will help create hundreds of good - paying jobs, generating millions of dollars to local businesses and further build upon New York's booming film industry.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has undertaken a statewide building boom using public construction contracts to spur private - sector job growth that since 2011 has committed billions of dollars in construction funds and tax breaks to companies.