Sentences with phrase «where boom years»

Of course, a similar story has played out here in the U.S. where boom years saw the building of golf courses and resorts, but in recent years, fewer and fewer people are taking up the game.

Not exact matches

The fact is, says Vitaliy Katsenelson, director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and a prominent China skeptic, China's frantic building boom over the past five years not only boosted GDP on paper and put millions to work but also produced a property bubble where neither investors nor developers are likely to ever recover their costs.

Where most baby boomers might send a strongly - worded email (likely in all - caps) to the offending party, the 61 - year - old Waits did what he does best: responded in kind.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

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The number of schools with extended lunch times increased a few years ago, he said, especially on the Northwest and Southwest Sides, where student population is booming.

This was to be a year of celebration for New York's booming gambling industry, but like casinos themselves — where glitter often hides the grime — the reality has been far less glamorous, with underwhelming returns, evidence of industry cannibalization and a new, sharp - edged conflict between the state and a major tribal gambling operation.

But, once released from its constraints, we flooded over the planet and, in 2000 years, we peeled the land of large game species (with the exception of Africa, where those species had time to co-evolve with us) and fueled a population boom that we could no longer feed by hunting.

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.

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

«North Dakota's political leadership is still in the mold where a lot of our oil and gas policy reflects a strong desire to have another oil boom,» said Mark Trechock, who headed the Dakota Resource Council, a landowner group that has pushed for stronger oversight, until his retirement this year.

The mobile dating market in the United States is racing to catch up with rest of the world, where mobile dating has boomed over the past several years.

With DVD sales flattening out in the past couple of years, Blu - ray is where the growth is, and the home theater boom in increasingly larger and sharper widescreen monitors and more powerful sound systems, we've reached the point where general consumers can see the difference.

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

Consider public charter schools, where enrollment is booming and reached a record 185,000 students statewide this year.

Following the inevitable boom where everyone rushed to cash in on the sudden interest in tablets, sales have gradually dropped off year - on - year, and it's not just competitor models this is happening to either, Apple itself is struggling to shift iPads in anywhere near the quantities it expected to or used to.

Last year, they accounted for about 9 % of the volume of all mortgages made in the U.S. and were especially popular in California, Florida and Nevada — states where home prices rose the most during the housing boom and are now falling most sharply.

One of the best performing was luxury tour operator Page and Moy, where sales boomed by an incredible 227 per cent year on year.

Villa Allamanda, named after a brilliantly colored flower found in these parts, is located in the Guanacaste Province, where Costa Rica's tourist boom is expected to be focused in the coming years.

, where Costa Rica's tourist boom is expected to be focused in the coming years.

Think India, which has a population that almost matches that of China, and where smartphone adoption has been booming in the last year.

OIL AND GAS: • A reporter discusses her book on the oil and gas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industry.

The areas of Canada with the significant + ve anomaly are notorious for boom - bust periods — they have had 4 years of excellent spring skiing but what about the years where the snow cover has been - ve?

EGP - NA wants to consolidate its top position in the booming US corporate renewables market, where it led the pack last year with 650MW of corporate off - take deals with the likes of T - Mobile and Anheuser - Busch.

And I think the really interesting thing is, when you tack on where we are headed in the 21st century and then you've got the last ten thousand years doing this today [moves arm in gradual downward motion across the screen] and then BOOM, you know, we're just outside the elevator, you know, up and OUT, and I think that's the interesting perspective you get.

It is also not a situation where if a hot market continues for a year or more that a hiring boom coincides with the length of such a nice corporate / cap markets deal flow boom.

But their prices tumbled immediately: Ethereum, widely considered the biggest beneficiary of the ICO boom, was down more than 12 %, and Bitcoin was down 7 % as China is the country where 42 % of all Bitcoin transactions have accounted for this year.

Where OREA could have been a consumer advocate was in MVA and why it has begun to hurt Boomers disproportionately in the last 5 years and will increasingly for the next 20.

Such a situation is unfolding in Chicago these days, where an ill - timed office building boom will add some 5.3 million sq. ft. to the central business district over the next few years.

Ten months later I was a manager; then top sales manager in Canada in three years; and district sales manager in the 1981 boom, where interest rates went to 22 1/4 per cent.

Any Realtor who wants to understand where the market is heading in coming years wants to understand the mindset of the baby boomers and wants to get a grip on their own real estate practice should review the survey carefully.

He says affordable housing is an important issue in the area near downtown Montreal, where sales have dropped by 30 per cent in the past three years, after a boom from 2004 to 2012.

Growth was especially strong in Victoria's condominium market, where a 31 per cent increase in price was recorded, year - over-year, as the city's fair weather and scenic views continue to attract baby boomers looking toward retirement.

By adding 3.6 % to the actual 2000 price and repeating that for each subsequent year, we can see that prices were overvalued during the boom, undervalued during the bust, and a little bit LOWER than where they should be right now.

The Baby Boomers will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the real estate market as they prepare for where they want to live their Golden Years.

For today's 80 million Boomers, the choices vary on where to spend their retirement years.

«This year's data reflects longer - term trends of people moving to the Pacific West, where cities such as Portland and Seattle are seeing the combination of a boom in the technology and creative marketing industry, as well as a growing «want» for outdoor activity and green space,» says Michael Stoll, economist, professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The survey found that the largest price increases over the past year occurred in Saskatchewan, where jobs in the booming oil and gas, grain and potash industries are attracting record numbers of new residents.

We may not Crash but I see an extended period (15 - 20 years, about the length of the baby boom) where there will be downward pressure on home prices, probably to the tune of 3 % per year.

Brokers and bankers say the 77 million retiring baby boomers will likely help fuel further growth in the loans in the coming years, making the business a growth spot in a home loan market where volumes have recently been declining.