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Much of the past decade has been a commodities boom-time, with gold prices, oil prices and Chinese demand all going through the roof.

In spite of the troubled environment, market rates for bankers have been running close to the boom-time highs of two years ago.

For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.

The comptroller's report found that Wall Street employees got paid about the same amount of bonuses as they did in the boom time of 2004.

The week before the festival is usually a boom time for sales.

FOR several decades after the second world war it was boom time for Japan's economy as a new generation of workers entered the labour force.

And leverage climbed to stratospheric highs in the boom time, so bringing it down could be tougher than some investors think.

It is boom time for marijuana cultivation, and much of the incentive they say is to beat the recession.

Those who begin their careers in a bust are less footloose than their boom-time equivalents.

Once the grasses reemerged on the burnt landscape, however, the surviving grazing animals had a boom time.

"He believed that boom-time malinvestments were responsible for the subsequent bust" : "be responsible for"

Then the bubble burst and shares have not been near their boom time values since.

The Tories were also slow to ditch their boom-time pledge to share revenue between tax cuts and public spending.

In 1929 the Wall Street Crash brought boom time to an abrupt close and hems dropped almost overnight.

A 2008 board game, Kreppuspilid ( "Crisis Game" ), takes players on a journey from boom-time private jets to mass lay-offs and protests.

This was 1948, boom-time in the Belgian Congo.

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