Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everybody's thinking about the dot-com boom of five years ago, but we're not seeing that. Biotech is a terrific industry and it has terrific jobs, but it's not like a chip factory with tons of jobs. It's not as robust as people would like.

Some boomers may want a view of the website that uses larger fonts. Also, new techno-graphic data indicates that older web users read from left to right, whereas younger users scan the page, searching for what they need.

One day, when the commodity boom ends and foreign investors head for the exits, that could change the picture for the rand.

Now in its fifth year, Taste Washington Spokane has grown to be one of the largest, most popular wine tasting events in Eastern Washington. Taste Washington provides the public with an opportunity to try new Washington wines, meet winemakers and chefs, and celebrate our state's booming wine industry.

Booming internet revenues and profits with improved market positions for our Fairfax Digital news and classifieds franchises, a solid performance in New Zealand, continued growth in business publishing and our regional newspapers ... with tight cost controls in a cyclical downturn have all resulted in solid profit growth.

Booming demand in the southern hemisphere, in India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales.

Robert Hormats

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

Boomers show a high level of comfort with technology. We find 81% use it to stay connected to their families, and 62% purchase products online.

Susan Davis

Boomers really have the chance to turn this around.

Boomers over 50 may be healthier, wealthier and better educated than any previous generation of 50-year-olds in American history. But they also may be poised for a big fall if all they do to stay healthy is drink designer water and pop vitamins all day long.

Boomers make up a third of our population, and they have always dominated our society from a cultural standpoint. The way work itself is being done, how we dress, where we work: All of these innovations have been embraced by our society.

Boomers have been mass-marketed to since they were five years old, and they're always interested in what's next.

David Brown

Boomers have a different view of aging. They're jumping out of airplanes, running marathons and not giving up on rock and roll.

Boomers and the Workplace Revolution. These industries will need to recruit older workers because there is not a skilled enough workforce ready to replace the retirees.

Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We're always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we're not able to defer the gratification to tackle the long-term problems.

Bronson Arroyo

Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.

Boomer is what you want them all to be.

Bob Hartley

Boom Boom was an incredible man who meant a great deal to me and I'm fortunate to have called him a friend and mentor. I'm sincerely honored to be a part of the same coaching fraternity and to follow his lead as an NHL Head Coach in Atlanta.

Florida has no income tax, and they tout that far and wide. If states want to compete for boomer retirees, they need to offer some type of tax incentives.

David Wilson

Everything is definitely better than last year. Bottom line is, every way you look at it, the boom is back on the MBA.

There was a huge boom in creating mainframe systems in the '60s and '70s, and we always felt they would be replaced, ... Much to our horror in some cases, today we've got 30-year-old systems that we thought would have outlived their useful life.

Chris Wooding

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

Jim Reid

There's still some legs left in the mining shares, but we'd love to hunt for more of the farming-type commodity stocks. There's a general commodities boom on, and the 'soft' commodities is where the next big leg up is likely to come from.

There's sort of a box-office boom right now, which is good news heading into summer.

Sinbad

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Simon Williams

This oil boom has been funding domestic development, and the capital markets -- that have really changed dramatically over last few years -- have been a conduit for that.

As long as the oil market remains buoyant, as it does for other commodities, then the Russian economy will prosper. The consumption boom is growing on the back of the wealth being produced by commodity growth.

Michael Hitchcock

The Saturn Challenge Cup is a key preparation match for the 2006 MLS season. It's a great opportunity to showcase two of Major League Soccer's top teams to a booming soccer market.

There's just no excuse for them to be demanding concessions from these workers at a time when the economy in B.C. is booming and their excuse about competition just doesn't hold up.

Mark Zandi

There's just a lot more boomer kids out there, and that's cutting up the pie into very small pieces.

It would be huge. All of the major builders in the city are saying a hospital would create a boom for the senior housing market.

We expect some slowdown in the mortgage business as the refinance boom fades,

In a booming economy, the transportation system is always going to be a lagging factor.