Wal-Mart enters a particular market, overwhelms competitors and provides a short-lived boom for certain noncompeting retailers nearby.

He survived on money his family had made during the short-lived boom.

The discovery of gold in 1870 at Real del Castillo, 35km inland, brought a short-lived boom.

In the late 19th century, the area experienced a short-lived boom in oil shale mining and processing at the Binnend Works.

A short-lived boom in the late 1940s occurred, but it wasn't enough to revive the town.

Jamestown was soon renamed Howlett and a new flour mill and coal mine caused a short-lived boom.

It grew slowly until the late 1920s, when a short-lived boom raised the population from 869 in 1925 to 1,300 in 1929.

This led to a short-lived "boom" in rabbit breeding, selling, and speculation, when a quality breeding animal could bring $75 to $200.

He pledged: 'The Government has no intention of engineering a short-lived boom that would lead swiftly to higher inflation and higher interest rates.

It was a short-lived boom that provided needed income to the community, which suffered during the Great Depression.