Word: postboom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other way. The parallels to immigration were pointed: during the boom years, the U.S. binged on cheap labor while politicians neither legalized workers nor prevented them from sneaking across the border. It was a grossly laissez-faire policy that has left everyone - Americans and immigrants alike - with a postboom hangover...
...course, Lee isn't the first to point out that the suburbs hide uncharted depths of misery and discontentment--Updike, Rick Moody and John Cheever, among many others, have been here before. But Lee's portrait feels somehow more up-to-date than anything else out there, complete with postboom McMansions that take up all but a fringe of their .47-acre lots. Never mind that Jerry, a landscaping contractor, thinks in better prose than most English professors write--come on, give Lee some room to play in, he'll make it up to you. The glossy flawlessness...
...jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side, B2B companies are businesses like any other. Many will go under in the postboom shakeout that will inevitably take place. Says Mark Walsh, CEO and president of VerticalNet, a creator of 43 online industry-specific trading communities (commonly referred to as verticals): "What you see today are a lot of technology companies or single-focused verticals that are declaring...
Since 1931 Henry Doherty has picked up six Southern resort hotels, five clubs, and thousands of odd lots at postboom prices...
| 1 |