Sentences with phrase «small gold rush»

In this small Gold Rush town in the Sierra foothills of Nevada County, the average home in the county cost $ 397,000 last year, according to Tom Dykstra, a broker with Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty in Nevada City.

It appears we are experiencing a small gold rush as savvy technology investors bet that the digital transition in education will yield significant returns to those doing the disrupting.

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Believing these people, and afraid to miss out on the gold rush, small - time investors, grandma and grandpa, and barbers and taxi drivers invested their life savings in companies such as Pets.com, Webvan, and eToys.

The demand for legal marijuana, which has outstripped many lofty expectations, isn't the only thing small - business owners in the pot gold rush are surprised about.

She lives in the North Georgia Mountains in the quaintest small town you could ever hope to find where a festival is held every month for everything from Wildflowers to Literary to the Gold Rush of 1833!

In the span of one short week Apple has alleviated fears that independent authors and smaller publishers would get left out of the iPad gold rush.

In the early days, it was the imported Siberian sled - dogs, sometimes referred to as Siberian rats because of their lighter body structure and smaller size than the Malamutes and mixed breeds traditionally used in Alaska, that soon won fame and success - not only as very fast competitors in the grand sled - dog races of the gold - rush era, but also as couriers of mail, and even of vaccines which saved human lives (one very famous instance of which, is remembered through the classic Iditarod race).

The gold rush was shortlived however as the gold deposits were small and soon all the diggers left for greener pastures.

From the launch lineup that we've had chance to play, it's definitely refreshing to have a bunch of what feel like well - polished, fully featured games, rather than wading through a slew of half - cocked and rushed projects from studios and individuals who are just trying to make a quick buck before you strike any small amount of gold.

A tantalising hint of what that gold rush might look like comes from survival sandbox games such as RUST and DayZ, which have hundreds of small servers and very little focus on persistence.

A small amount of gold salted in a small area yeilds great results for speculators in the same a way a small amount of proxy warming (up to about 1960) in one or two trees in a small area like Yamal has resulted in a «gold rush» of billions of dollars in AGW business.