Word: boom
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During the real estate boom, new home construction became a game of ever increasing square-footage. That had a certain logic to it: If you saw your house as an investment to make you rich, bigger could only mean better, right...
...Hummer division has commanded attention ever since the vehicles first appeared on American highways at the height of the sport-utility boom...
...result of its economic boom, China has amassed a staggering $2 trillion in foreign exchange - the largest reserves in the world - and is beginning to invest significant amounts abroad. Today, 37 Chinese multinational corporations rank among FORTUNE's top 500 global companies, up from just six a decade ago, while 450 out of the FORTUNE 500 American companies have production lines and a business presence in China. China has become the world's largest recipient of foreign direct investment. To fuel its economic boom, China's voracious and insatiable appetite for raw materials has led it to absorb large amounts...
...pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
...summit site they tried. This time, the dispersal order was followed by smoke, then two canisters of OC - Oleoresin of capsicum, that is, pepper spray. Both were kicked back at police. A small protester contingent rolled a Dumpster down the steep hill, which hit something with a boom, although it was hard to see through the denser, choking pepper spray. As the group fled through an alley and individuals knelt for medics to flush their eyes, one of the men shouldered the lead banner, shouting, "Let's make them use all that...