boom town

"I wouldn't say we're back in boomtown quite yet, " Sebille-White says. "But we're definitely better than we were. "

Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown.

They lived near a silver boomtown where hard work and sudden luck were transforming the occasional poor man into a wealthy one.

Compared with the rest of America, Silicon Valley feels like a boomtown.

Induced development effect; boomtown effect The secondary growth of settlements and infrastructure, resulting from a project.

IN THE southern boomtown of Shenzhen, normally docile legislators have been complaining with unusual vigour.

Highways into the southern boomtown of Shenzhen have security cordons where entrants are required to show a passport or identification card.

The mythical spot is now a boomtown, as two visions of the future compete for the soul of China's western frontier.

The Los Angeles that greeted these pioneers who disembarked after their four-day train ride from the east was part boomtown, part frontier.

China's gaudy growth doesn't mean much to Xie Jun, who runs a factory in the southern Chinese boomtown of Dongguan.

Price declines have been worse in flood-ravaged Brisbane and mining boomtown Perth.

A gold rush that began in the 1970s made Boa Vista, Brazil, a boomtown on the edge of one of the world's richest gold fields.

Arlene Hixson and her fiance, Tony Goligowski, booked the date at Boomtown almost two years in advance.

But the fishing's still great, prices at the all-you-can-eat buffets reasonable, and Branson's still a boomtown.

it ' s a crock . boomtown money , big mansions , extravagant lifestyles.

Opportunities for employment abound in this boomtown.

Zhenjiang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, boasts the hallmarks of a latter-day Chinese boomtown.

She, too, headed for the southern economic boomtown of Shenzhen in the 1990s.

Ping An was set up in 1988 by Peter Ma, the company chairman, in the boomtown of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong.

But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.

Runs this space station and bake shop down near boomtown.

Meaning "big celebration" in Chinese, Daqing became a boomtown following the discovery of oil in 1959.

The zone hopes to succeed much as the southern boomtown of Shenzhen did in the 1980s, or Shanghai's Pudong did in the 1990s.

He became head of food and beverage in 1999 for Boomtown.

But when I asked why they went to the coastal boomtown of Shenzhen for work, they invariably said, "For fun. "

On November 25, 1849, he wrote a letter to his sister Mary about his experiences in the boomtown of Sacramento City.

Li says in the simple dorm room she shares with two other women in Dongguan, a southern coastal boomtown near Hong Kong.

It began life producing batteries in the tawdry boomtown of Shenzhen across the Hong Kong border , then branched out into electric cars .

In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, Cai Weijun has been trying just that.