Some groups have done better than others in the boom times, however.

The money has never been good, even in boom years like 1987.

A couple of hours later, our boy goes in and boom!

The area has experience a building boom since the 2000s.

He is also working on a short story for Boom!

And a long boom of some kind along the top.

This current boom has really only taken off the last two years.

But in the last few years there seems to have been a boom.

By 1840 the boom town had a population of over 4,000.

Since that time the community has seen a small building boom.

It's not going to make everything fall down and go boom.

But most anything could set off a real economic problem and stop that office boom.

I'd asked what that was for just before the boom hit me in the back.

There would be a boom then, and they might all make a bit of money.

Especially if you were inside and the floor under your feet just shot up, boom.

During the boom, a good idea was enough to bank on.

One reason for the building boom, he said, is financial.

Feel free to use the boom box in the living room.

She got 500 points with one boom of a ball.

Others point to the very human needs that drive the development boom.

The boom just has not reached all the way down.

Just when you're finally getting your weight under control, boom!

The question is, however, how long this economic boom will continue.

With the growing population came the area's first building boom.

Now if your economy is booming you can get a lot.

Private schools like this one are booming all across the country.

Business in the computer industry is really booming these days.

The main issue was the economy, and that is booming.

The property market has also been booming in the area.

It was booming in the first part of this year as well.

Our company started out quite slowly, but business is certainly booming these days.

As she let herself in at the front door her mother's voice came booming out of the kitchen.

I was never going to hear what they were saying with that stuff booming out all over the place.

As a result, the financial planning business has been booming, he said.

Yet we are told that the British economy is booming.

The economy of southern China is really booming these days.

Then he was gone, and the door boomed behind him.

A few years prior to 1893, the business was booming.

The economy may have boomed in the last half of the 90's.

Toward the end of 2004, the real estate market in the city was booming.

Today, however, the market for personal finance information is booming.

The move comes when general interest in jazz is booming.

Why do you think this How-2 thing boomed into big business?

No one else boomed at you in quite that way.

If you believe the sisters, the used book business is booming.

He could hear his mother's voice, booming through her big belly.

At the same time, she said, residential development is also booming in the area.

Business began to boom, and has been booming ever since.

The use of large containment booms will sometimes also be advisable.

The high winds prevented the early use of containment booms.

In the hours after the spill, a containment boom was placed around the tanker.

The company said it does not believe the oil leaked beyond containment booms or into water, although testing is in place.

A new, lightweight and low cost containment boom for still water is now being manufactured in Australia.

ExxonMobil deployed 3,600 feet of containment boom around the lake.

The island, along with a second one to the north, forms a choke point where a containment boom can be stretched across the river.

Containment boom, meanwhile, was deployed in the waters near the stranded ship.

The base stores a supply of oil absorbent material but does not have containment booms.

The idea is to use the hair-packed nylons in oil containment booms.

And the crippled 987-foot-long ship was not surrounded by floating oil containment booms for another 21 hours.

A floating containment boom will be deployed to retain any wooden debris.

A containment boom is a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill.

"A total of 4,700 feet of hard containment boom has been deployed in an effort to minimize environmental damage."

But the oil companies offered assurance that any spill could be surrounded by 22,000 feet of containment booms within five hours.

Containment booms were set up, and little leaking was taking place from the tanker about three hours after the accident, he said.

The solicitation was for the supply of harbour containment booms and associated equipment.

After using containment booms, skimmers are used to recover the contaminants.

(An example of a passive method would be a containment boom.)

The island is circled by both soft and hard containment booms designed to keep the oil slick offshore.

"We are mobilising containment booms to stop the spread of oil and have also shut in some production volumes."

The spill containment boom being deployed around the sunken excavator.

Ultimately, the highly coveted containment boom often did little to keep oil from washing ashore, the report noted.

As a precaution, workers floated containment booms on the river and notified nearby water authorities.

The Coast Guard said it deployed containment boom to the area as a precaution.