A strong boom is needed to carry the pound or more of lead that your sinker is going to weigh. |
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At the height of the dotcom boom, cash shells were all the rage as fledgling companies with little more than an idea rushed to the stock market. |
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Everyone knows how the tech boom of the late nineties created wealth for Americans. |
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Naturally, there was total radio silence from him while the property boom was going up. |
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You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja. |
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A lot of other businesses are also doing particularly well as a result of the housing boom, like construction, plumbers, joiners and builders. |
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If you have to break out of the bottom, most of the time the knot to the boom will go before the superglued join. |
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Despite his irregular fight record and kayfabe politics, Takada is credited with the existence of PRIDE and the Japanese MMA boom. |
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Levels of activity in the economy will rise, employment will be boosted and tax receipts will boom. |
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And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer. |
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The Oregon system seems able to provide housing reliably, even during boom times. |
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That retail sales are faltering in the midst of a major mortgage refi boom is an especially noteworthy development. |
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Few well-known executives who achieved celebrity during the boom years of the Nineties are now safe from shareholder retribution. |
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The Celtic Tiger boom has levelled off and we have to wake up to that reality, he added. |
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Football is not the only one of the town's local trades to be experiencing a boom time in the last few years. |
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The province's economic boom has not led to a rise in the standard of living for the majority of Albertans. |
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The boom that was built on the quicksand of inflation then comes to a sudden end. |
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The Internet boom is a high-tech gold rush, a latter day Klondike of bits and bandwidth. |
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Despite the weather, the ship's two carpenters were busy and by the 26th they were able to replace the jib boom. |
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The canal boom revived the idea of a waterway between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge. |
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The industry is still suffering from excess network capacity put in place during the boom years of the late 1990s, and prices are weak. |
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Perth is something of a boom town, due to the immense mineral wealth of the state of Western Australia. |
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It involves the employment of a second lift cylinder on the jib or secondary boom. |
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In its ordinary sense it conveys to us an item of plant with a projecting boom or jib over which are braced lifting wires and pulleys. |
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With three telescopic boom sections and an articulating jib, sections of pump hose are added as needed to accommodate the distance to placement. |
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She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority. |
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That pressure also flows to the slave cylinder to provide additional lifting force to the jib boom. |
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The 7-ton crane can handle 600 pounds at full extension of the jib boom at 82 feet, or 2500 pounds at 60 feet. |
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But the costs of benchmarking will make it almost impossible to balance the national accounts if the economy fails to return to the boom times. |
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Ordinary Americans did make money in the 1990s, though with the boom at white heat, 86 percent of the gains accrued to the top 10 percent. |
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The wind caught the sails with a dull boom and the ship heeled about, tacking into the westerly breeze sweeping across the lake. |
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The building boom is in full flight at present and the amount of new houses going up or are still planned is alarming to say the least. |
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I swooped down on them, making the rat-a-tat sound of the turret guns and the thud and boom of the bombs. |
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If health or education is based on the market there will inevitably be success and failure, winners and losers, and boom and bust. |
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With an almighty boom, the laser detonates, tearing a huge chunk of the warship's hull away as it goes. |
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I am sure that many of your readers are aware of the recent boom in local and family history. |
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But the boom in major breakthroughs in the science of aerodynamics had dwindled. |
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The boom in financial services continues to provide a windfall for the country's top legal and accountancy firms. |
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There's been a boom in heroin use in rural areas in the UK over the last few years. |
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It is not yet clear whether investors have learned the lessons of the technology boom. |
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Moreover, despite the butchers' sizable landholdings, the sixteenth-century speculative real estate boom in Antwerp passed them by. |
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In the dying months of the boom, Beggs put together the deal with virtually no personal cash. |
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James says the belief that our personal finances are as safe as houses has fuelled an impressive consumer boom. |
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Still, there's heated dispute about just how important Reaganomics was to the tech boom. |
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We were supposed to be knee-deep in snow amid a boom time for the manufacturers of gloves and woolly hats. |
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Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers. |
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He awoke to a subliminal judder and then a hollow, deep boom that rocked through the fortress and was not so much heard as felt. |
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The youth bust and old age boom will change the states' dependency ratios. |
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However, an unintended consequence of the commercialization of the sport was a boom in child trafficking. |
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Seattle Dancer's enduring moment of fame came in July 1985 when offered at the Keeneland July selected yearling sale at the height of the boom in the yearling market. |
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In the unprecedented action, contractors and workers joined forces to wring improvements out of four companies benefiting from the state's home building boom. |
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Critics predicted that their resale prices would crash, but they had reckoned without the property boom and without Carroll's skill when it comes to site selection. |
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It's simple to rig, by tying the main line to the top eye, clipping a sinker to the swivel link and tie the leader to the swivel at the end of the boom arm. |
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She knows women who were self-employed pro-dommes before the tech boom began. |
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In these boom conditions, the TV channels hold all the aces. |
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As the dotcom bust receded and the leverage inflated the next boom, the wager looked like a good one. |
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Almost as soon as Romney ended his day-to-day role at Bain, the dot-com boom crashed and the economy went into recession. |
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When Gerald Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller as vice president from 1974 to 1977, it was a consolation prize to a burned-out boom. |
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He didn't need to, because Labor acquiesced as a government-financed housing boom continued in existing settlements. |
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There was a boom in the building of castles, abbeys, and priories. |
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During the boom years, Anglo expanded its market share by reckless lending, especially to property developers. |
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The cinema industry has been fighting back since its lowest point in the 1980s when admissions sank to 54 million in 1984 at the height of the home video boom. |
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Hovering over the jib boom you see two large anchors lying on deck. |
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Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world. |
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I am a risk-taker and I would have gone for broke during the dotcom boom. |
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With the exception of the dotcom boom, all of the trust fund surprises have been in the wrong direction. |
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The word on the street at the height of the dotcom boom was that this was the figure to watch if you were interested in investing in growth companies. |
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Sultan reportedly made millions off the sale of the site she cofounded during the dotcom boom. |
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The company had built an empire off finding and drilling natural gas discoveries as the fracking boom rolled across the country. |
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Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era. |
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The boom in new types of martial arts contrasts with a decline in the popularity of their traditional counterparts, such as judo and kendo, or fighting with bamboo swords. |
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Molex has been a beneficiary of the boom in electronics and device manufacturing that has been led in part by Apple. |
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Today, however, it appears we have passed the peak in the mortgage refi boom, making it reasonable to expect GSE balance sheet expansion to soon begin to wane. |
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Millions have died in this area in the past decade, for land, for gold, for power, for control of mineral wealth, and now there's an oil boom, without any oil. |
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In a new video, the Kentucky Republican brags about lowering the boom on sexual harasser Bob Packwood. |
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The boom generated much income and savings, but there were few investment possibilities in trade, due to the persisting Spanish trade embargoes. |
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However, there has been a housing boom due to declining commercial mortgage rates. |
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Indigenous peoples were enslaved as part of the rubber boom in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. |
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So lucrative was this market that it spawned an economic boom in central and western Europe, today known as the Carolingian Renaissance. |
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Spanish America's ability to supply a great amount of silver and China's strong demand for this commodity resulted in a spectacular mining boom. |
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During the oil boom of the 1970s, Nigeria joined OPEC and the huge oil revenues it was generating enriched the economy. |
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After the 1970s oil boom, tertiary education was improved so that it would reach every subregion of Nigeria. |
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Residential housing was in short supply, and it took years for the market to catch up with the population boom. |
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That legislation shortly gave way to the railway boom, and from there the numbers of companies formed soared. |
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Many colonial settlers came to Delaware from Maryland and Virginia, which had been experiencing a population boom. |
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A prime example of innovation involved the explosive boom of Silicon Valley startups out of the Stanford Industrial Park. |
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The postwar boom ended in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the situation was worsened by the rise of stagflation. |
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In the 1950s, an economic boom began in Italy, at first fuelled by internal demand, and then also by exports. |
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Drake's well touched off a major boom in oil production in the United States. |
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The cotton industry was subject to cycles of boom and slump, which caused waves of mill building. |
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The economic boom in China and India has caused a massive increase in the demand for steel in recent years. |
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However, industry observers have warned that this might not lead to a boom in mining jobs. |
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Alfred relocated to Colorado Springs to take advantage of the boom in the defense industry. |
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During these boom years, Ramsden proposed building a planned town to accommodate the large workforce which had arrived. |
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In the last few years it has seen a massive house price boom, with many properties more than doubling their value over a couple of years. |
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From 1850 to 1880 the Norwegian shipping industry enjoyed a large boom, stimulated by the abolishing of the British Navigation Acts. |
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The 1950s saw a boom in construction of hydroelectricity and the state built the steel mill Norsk Jernverk and two aluminum works. |
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In San Francisco, capital of Silicon Valley and boom town of the internet, innovators have devised the latest in computerised technodazzle. |
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The Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school has its origins in the mid-1910s boom in commercial periodicals. |
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Among humpback whales, only males boom out long strings of repeating phrases of hums and whups and chirps. |
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And so there has been a boom in placing solar fields on top of landfills. |
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For most African countries, the past two decades have been boom time. |
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The FAA is on a hiring boom because large numbers of its 15,000 air traffic controllers are retiring. |
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It was in this buoyant baby boom atmosphere that my parents grew up. |
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The smooth telescoping boom movement is also ideal for placing jersey barriers with less barrier swing. |
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During the oil boom of the 1970s, Nigeria accumulated a significant foreign debt to finance major infrastructural investments. |
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Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots. |
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So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like! |
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In the next second, that is exactly what happened. Big Man made a wide Texas swing, left his chin open and boom! goes the dynamite. |
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Once again, there are special effects, muscles and explosions, boomity boom boom. |
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A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now. |
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It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet. |
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Mr. Bush's return to Carternomics killed the Reagan boom, resulting in higher unemployment, lower incomes and higher deficits. |
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The protests in Brazil are unfolding just as its long and heralded economic boom may be coming to an end. |
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There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden. |
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Reggae basslines boom from giant stacks of speakers and the streets and dancehalls are crammed with hip-grinding groovers. |
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The financial crisis that began in 2008 dramatically ended this period of boom. |
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Roman builders employed Greeks in many capacities, especially in the great boom in construction in the early Empire. |
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Large reserves of petroleum and natural gas were discovered in the 1960s, which led to a boom in the economy. |
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British immigrants were also important in the northern zone of the country during the saltpetre boom, in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua. |
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Just as London enjoyed growth through international trade, the rest of Great Britain also benefited from the economic boom. |
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The discovery at Oil Springs touched off an oil boom which brought hundreds of speculators and workers to the area. |
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Around this time a Tudor defensive boom stretched from the Round Tower to Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, as a protection to Portsmouth Harbour. |
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Around the unicorn is wrapped a representation of the Tudor defensive boom which stretched across Portsmouth Harbour. |
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When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him. |
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However, very many simpler buildings, especially churches, built during the wool boom in East Anglia, are fine examples of the style. |
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A boom in the number of foals bred has meant that there is not adequate resources to care for unwanted horses. |
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Sailors may also adjust the trim of the sail to account for wind gradient, for example, using a boom vang. |
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The main boom then can be rigged as a whisker pole too, to stabilize one of the head sails. |
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However, the sail can become jammed in the mast or boom slot if not operated correctly. |
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Following World War II, the West's cities experienced an economic and population boom. |
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Oil boom towns in Texas and Oklahoma rivaled the old mining camps for their rawness and wealth. |
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The pamphlets were published by John Murray, who invested heavily in the boom. |
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For cities that had a developed motor industry such as Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford, the 1930s were also a boom time. |
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Regarded as the leading figure of the satire boom, Peter Cook was ranked number one in the Comedians' Comedian poll. |
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The boom resulted in the relocation of institutions into new developments in the nearby Isle of Dogs area, particularly that of Canary Wharf. |
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This boom in innovative financial products went hand in hand with more complexity. |
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The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height and creating an identifiable skyline. |
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Optionally, the receiving probe can be replaced with a fuselage mounted UARRSI receptacle for receiving fuel from boom equipped tankers. |
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The years leading up to the crisis were characterized by an exorbitant rise in asset prices and associated boom in economic demand. |
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It lacks the little boom microphone jutting mouthward that many Bluetooth headsets have, and it more easily hides under hair. |
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The exploitation of North Sea gas and oil brought in substantial tax and export revenues to aid the new economic boom. |
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During the eighties, a number of major museums, including the Modern, had expanded, hoping to cash in on a boom in museumgoing. |
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In recent years there have been two fatalities and one near miss due to the inappropriate use of boom trucks. |
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Tijuana experienced a building boom that was brought to a halt by the Great Recession. |
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It has since experienced somewhat of a boom as a center of border trade between China and Russia. |
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From 1710 Glasgow became the focus of an economic boom which lasted nearly fifty years. |
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The area around Livingston was previously an important shale oil area, the world's first oil boom occurred in West Lothian. |
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The early 20th century saw a great boom in the numbers leaving Scotland for Canada. |
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Its construction hastened Oswestry's boom as a railway town, from a population of 5,500 in 1861, to nearly 10,000 40 years later. |
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The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 led to a boom in commercial real estate. |
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The destruction caused by the Great Chicago Fire led to the largest building boom in the history of the nation. |
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Milford Haven has experienced a history of boom and slump in shipbuilding, fishing, as a railhead and an ocean terminal. |
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There had been a housing boom however in the years following Second World War. |
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He outlined nine factors interacting with one another under conditions of debt and deflation to create the mechanics of boom to bust. |
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The Celtic Tiger also led to a temporary boom in construction, with large redevelopment projects in the Dublin Docklands and Spencer Dock. |
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Edwin Drake's 1859 well near Titusville, Pennsylvania, is typically considered the first true modern oil well, and touched off a major boom. |
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The postwar boom led to the modernisation of the economy and a greater role for female employment. |
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Le Havre experienced a population boom in the second half of the 19th century. |
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Even though farm and industry output expanded, the economy could not keep pace with the population boom. |
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The reduction in the unemployment rate and growth in per capita income is attributable to the oil boom in the state. |
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The immediate postwar period saw a severe reduction in warship orders which was balanced by a prolonged boom in merchant shipbuilding. |
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In particular, the completion of a branch line to the small seaside town Blackpool from Poulton led to a sustained economic and demographic boom. |
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In the 18th century, thanks to the rum trade, Flensburg had yet another boom. |
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The destruction caused by the bombing of Mainz during World War II led to the largest building boom in the history of the town. |
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While most of the parks surrounding the villas were destroyed during the building boom of the late 19th century, some of them remain. |
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At the same time, it also led to a boom in printing, and Iceland today is one of the most literate societies in the world. |
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During the oil boom in the late 1970s and 1980s, there was a focused civic effort to bring art to Jeddah's public areas. |
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Due to a major energy and resources boom, the provincial economy has had a major turnaround since the turn of the 21st century. |
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Then, in 1499, the first major discovery of gold was made in the cordillera central, which led to a mining boom. |
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Haiti's brief tourism boom was wiped out by the rule of Papa Doc Duvalier and his unstable government. |
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The oil boom in the '00's has revived the economy, but the benefits are not distributed evenly. |
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During the rubber boom it is estimated that diseases brought by immigrants, such as typhus and malaria, killed 40,000 native Amazonians. |
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There was also a boom in the tourism industry, and new hotels sprang up throughout the island. |
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Slaves labeled as 'Minas' and 'Angolas' rose in high demand during the boom. |
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The oil boom of the 1970s benefited Bahrain greatly, although the subsequent downturn hurt the economy. |
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In contrast to the Zapotecs, the Zoque generally declined as a group during the ranching boom, with interloping animals eating their maize crops. |
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Combined with its sudden elevation in profile was the Florida land boom of the 1920s, which brought a brief period of intense land development. |
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The true champion of this boom in the silver industry was indeed the Spanish crown. |
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Although the recent oil boom has helped to bring the state out of complete poverty, there is still areas in which this is a serious problem. |
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The six-figure deal follows the recent acquisition of Panamic Sound Booms, which makes microphone boom poles used by sound recordists. |
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A BABY boom combined with a housing shortage will send rents and property prices soaring, experts are warning today. |
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Still, there is an enormous opportunity for growth in the baby care market as China's baby boom has been looming for decades. |
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A BABY boom at Knowsley SafariPark has seen more than 100 births in a matter of weeks. |
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Could we be gearing up for a baby boom to surpass the mother of all baby booms? |
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Although common to all parts of Canada, this passage from baby boom to baby bust was more pronounced in Quebec. |
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It seems Tyneside is in for a backpacker boom as tourists flood into a newly trendy and fashionably cultural city famous for its nightlife. |
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The new GR-500EXL boasts a 51-tonne capacity, a 42 m 5-section boom, and a right-hand drive. |
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During the leveraged buyout boom of the early 1980s, many corporations were the targets of hostile takeovers. |
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It offers top drilling performance with a RD414 rock drill, a robust boom, a patented collaring guide and an economical Tier4 Final engine. |
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The first boom was from the Conquest to the mid 17th century. |
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This not only caused a significant boom for the Dutch economy, but also much resentment in neighbouring countries, like first the Commonwealth of England and later France. |
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries redistributed large amounts of land to the wealthy, resulting in a secular building boom, as well as a source of stone. |
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The petroleum boom produced great wealth, but there have been disputes over the money earned from the facilities owned by PEMEX, the nation's oil company. |
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The tourist boom led to increases in gambling and prostitution in Cuba. |
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The 11th century marked a significant boom in the region's economy, due to improved trading and, mostly, agricultural conditions, with arms manufacture a significant factor. |
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The building boom in Imperial times led to a partial rebuilding of the Old Town, but without destroying its structure, and rather leading to notable expansion of the town. |
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After experimenting with configurations to counteract the torque produced by the single main rotor, Sikorsky settled on a single, smaller rotor mounted on the tail boom. |
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There was a boom in oil exploration in western North Dakota in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as rising petroleum prices made development profitable. |
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The proportion of Spain's foreign born population increased rapidly during its economic boom in the early 2000s, but then declined due to the financial crisis. |
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The serial introduced the eponymous aliens that would become the series' most popular monsters, and was responsible for the BBC's first merchandising boom. |
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Until the early 1920s, Cardiff docks continued to boom as a location for shipping companies, but the fall in demand for Welsh coal caused a dramatic fall in exports. |
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Although Llanvaches is set in a quiet, rural area the need for more houses and the boom in housing development means that the village has a rising population. |
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France's demographic transition was unusual in that the mortality and the natality decreased at the same time, thus there was no demographic boom in the 19th century. |
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Growth in modern manufacture of electrical goods and a boom in the motor car industry was helped by a growing southern population and an expanding middle class. |
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The boom in the slate industry was followed by a significant decline. |
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During the 1860s and 1870s the slate industry went through a large boom. |
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Tesco expands dark stores programme to cash in on online shopping boom. |
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House lettings are holding up despite fears that the buy-to-let boom could be running out of steam, according to specialist lender Paragon Mortgages. |
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Italy also experienced an economic boom and the French economy rebounded. |
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It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section. |
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The boom in tourism, spurred by growing wealth and leisure time, and by Victoria's example, led to significant urban development of the island's coastal resorts. |
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The 1980s saw an economic boom in the Silicon Glen corridor between Glasgow and Edinburgh, with many large technology firms relocating to Scotland. |
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Now, however, a construction boom in both the private and public sector has led to a dramatic improvement in living standards in major cities, particularly in Addis Ababa. |
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The decades following on from the Second World War were a boom time for Welsh rugby, though it took until the 1950s for the benefits to be seen on the playing fields. |
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So far the major beneficiaries of the boom in gold have been deposed South American dictators, Middle Eastern potentates, and the gnomes of Zurich. |
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Britain had never experienced the boom that had characterized the US, Germany, Canada and Australia in the 1920s, so its bust appeared less severe. |
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The late 19th and early 20th century period was a boom time for Newport. |
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Stonehaven has grown rapidly since the oil boom in Aberdeen. |
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Thatcher's popularity once again declined, in 1989, as the economy suffered from high interest rates imposed to temper a potentially unsustainable boom. |
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There was at the time a boom in shares in South American mining companies. |
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Powles, who was prominent among those encouraging the mining boom. |
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A topping lift is used to hold a boom up in the absence of sail tension. |
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Similarly, the recent boom in imports of fine beans from Egypt has been based on pre-existing capabilities in growing the less sophisticated bobby beans. |
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All on deck must be aware of, and if possible avoid, the potential arc of the boom, mainsheet and other gear in case an accidental jibe occurs during a run. |
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While the introduction of sound led to a boom in the motion picture industry, it had an adverse effect on the employability of a host of Hollywood actors of the time. |
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The history of South African curries goes back 250 years, when the first Indians arrived on the shores of the Natal Colony, well before the boom of British curries. |
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But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve. |
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During the past twenty years or so farmers in the Cedarberg region, from Citrusdal to Nieuwoudtville, have raised the rooibos tea industry from obscurity to minor boom. |
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Most were repopulated in the 7th century, which also saw the construction of several fishing hamlets and a boom in trade of iron and soapstone across the North Sea. |
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During the development boom of the 1970s in Australia, the Green ban was developed by certain unions described by some as more socially conscious. |
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At the time, he was a 30-year-old home rehabber and realtor who had worked on several successful projects but had not quite hit the Lincoln Park boom in a really big way. |
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Even during a boom period at the start of the 20th century, Wales had a narrow economic base dependent on the labour intensive exploitation of natural resources. |
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At its height in the 1890s, there were dozens of quarries employing around 15,000 men, although they suffered from the boom and bust nature of the construction industry. |
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Mains are made smaller by reefing. This can be done by rolling up the sail around the boom, or by the more traditional method of tying down a panel along the foot. |
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Since 2003, the country has entered a second oil boom, a driving force which the government hopes to use to turn the country's main export back to sugar and agriculture. |
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Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts. |
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