Sentences with phrase «recent boom years»

Yet average families haven't made any gains during the heady days of the late 1990s or during the recent boom years.

During the recent boom years, many of us were so busy serving current accounts that we didn't have the time — or the need — to sustain connections with former customers or potential referral sources.

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M&A activity also boomed in the years leading up to 2000 and 2007, coinciding with the two most recent big stock market tops.

Rather than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.

The boom and mania around Bitcoin in recent months reminds me a little of the Dot Com boom and mania 20 years ago.

US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

Pakistan's economy has been on the rise in recent years, seeing annual GDP growth climb to 5 % with a corresponding boom in real estate prices.

Canada ships nearly all of its crude oil exports to the United States, and Mexico's appetite for natural gas has driven a boom in U.S. pipeline shipments in recent years.

In recent years, America's unprecedented oil and gas boom has been driven by one factor above all others — and that's shale.

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

The online takeaway business has been booming in recent years, prompting listings of firms such as Britain's Just Eat and the Netherlands» Takeaway.com, as well as the more recent entry of Amazon and Uber.

So it's no wonder The Big Smoke has seen a boom in luxury hotels in recent years: the Shangri - La, the Ritz - Carlton, Four Seasons, the Trump tower.

Most media attention in recent years has focused on the whiskey boom, which is certainly still pushing ahead, but Mexico's famed native spirit is also a top performer.

On a Goldman Sachs podcast last year, O'Neill advocated active investing as opposed to passive investing, which has boomed in recent years.

This attack fits the recent trend of criminal enterprises leveraging these now freely available capabilities with the M.O. of hacking and selling stolen information or launching ransomware attacks, a booming business for the attackers (ransomware alone took in an estimated $ 1 billion last year).

China has boomed as a cryptocurrency trading location in recent years, as investors and speculators flocked to domestic exchanges that formerly allowed users to conduct trades for free, boosting demand.

This debt was the fuel for the consumption and capital spending boom we saw in recent years.

Indonesia's e-commerce industry has boomed in recent years, but the country's small banking penetration is causing problems for continued growth.

Despite the home sharing boom led by Airbnb in the overseas market, the trend didn't catch up in China until recent years thanks to the popularity of sharing economy concept in China.

The run - up in credit growth and the associated boom in house prices in recent years presented two implications for the economy: they tended to boost growth in the short term, but carried the risk of a damaging correction if they continued too long.

Like the Tories that ruled Alberta for nearly 44 years, Mr. Wall's party never saved anything from the resource boom in his province, and the recent decline in oil prices has left both provinces in a royalty bind.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

Given the significant expansions in capacity in the resource sector over recent years, and the lag between investment and the corresponding output, the production phase of the resource boom is expected to gather momentum over the next couple of years.

Particularly in recent years, Atlanta has become a booming regional center for the growing and increasingly prosperous American South.

It's hardly a boom time scenario but mineral exploration within Canada should see a healthy 6 % spending increase this year, according to recent federal government figures.

Recent studies determined while the cartless retailers such as Sears and J.C. Penney have suffered slow sales in recent years, the retailers that do use shopping carts, among them Target and Home Depot, have had booming Recent studies determined while the cartless retailers such as Sears and J.C. Penney have suffered slow sales in recent years, the retailers that do use shopping carts, among them Target and Home Depot, have had booming recent years, the retailers that do use shopping carts, among them Target and Home Depot, have had booming sales.

The important fact is that while recent news reports of declining marriage rates among young people 25 to 34 have focused on the recession as an explanation, marriage rates over the past thirty years have been declining, through boom and bust alike, especially among less - educated Americans.

The company is part of the craft beer boom that has taken off in recent years around the country, and its goal is to make the best beer it can possibly make.

Brazil's economy has boomed in recent years, on the back of its extensive natural resources and industrial - scale agricultural practices, to become the seventh largest in the world.

The number has increased in recent years due to an entrepreneurial boom in the city.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

Unfortunately, as dogfish numbers have boomed in recent years, international markets have slumped, owing to a rebounding Northeast Atlantic cod fishery and changing tastes.

Studies of Mars, for instance, have boomed in recent decades thanks to the steady stream of missions sent there; meanwhile, NASA hasn't sent a spacecraft to Venus in more than 20 years.

In recent years, initial public offering (IPOs) have been in the limelight, and during the IPO boom of 1999 and early 2000 this was the most glamorous and visible type of exit route.

Recent genetic research of people across the globe suggests that roughly 45,000 to 20,000 years ago, one of the most dramatic population booms after humanity dispersed from Africa occurred in southern Asia, leading to «the highest population densities in the world in prehistory,» explains Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford in England.

But where Europe's offshore industry has boomed in recent years, its American counterpart remains in its infancy.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

In recent years, there's been a boom in research on the human microbiome, the universe of microbes that live on and within our bodies, as scientists uncover its importance for our health.

This recent shale natural gas boom has not only reversed the depletion trend of conventional natural gas production from a few years ago, but has actually flooded markets supplies.

It's boomed in popularity in recent years, and now the cap is a home run for everyone — floral fans, color block fans, and stud / spike fans alike.

In recent years, online dating has had a boom in New Zealand — and it's easy to see why.

However, on line dating services are booming in recent years which help us, BBW singles, to find dates, at the comfort of our computer, in the living room, on the sofa, comfortably and easily.

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In recent years, the Internet has been booming in America and other international countries.

The Internet has been booming rapidly in recent year so there are more people who use the Internet.

This changes the guidelines of dating tremendously and with the huge popularity of the internet online teen dating has boomed in recent years.

He's experienced something of a boom in recent years, most significantly from his Oscar - nominated portrayal of President Richard Nixon in Frost / Nixon, a project he followed from the stage.

The recent report by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley on the «baby boom echo» describes an unparalleled enrollment increase in the public schools: Last fall, school enrollment reached 51.7 million students, more than the 51.3 million record set by the baby boomers 25 years ago.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said today: «Private tuition is booming, particularly in London, despite the fact that many families have been forced to tighten their belts over recent years.

The current vogue among these prestigious institutions for establishing branches in far - flung corners of the world is just part of a much bigger worldwide boom in international schools in recent years, with UK companies dominating this lucrative market.