Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constructed during a building boom in the 1950s, the 21-storey ICI Building was Australia's tallest freestanding office building at the time of its completion in 1958,

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.

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.

This year is really going to be seen as a transition year away from the booming economy to a more moderate pace of 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.

These data do further indicate that the housing market has stabilized at a much less ebullient level than seen in the recent boom years. We continue to look for modest house- price inflation going forward.

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,

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

The thing about the boomer generation is the sheer volume of it.

Darren Criss

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

The boom in western Canada's resource economy will help Canadian Pacific.

The boom in the U.S. economy at the end of 1990s increased flow by 35 percent, but that peak was rather short-lived.

The boom in flying is bringing with it a rapid rise in greenhouse gas emissions,

The boom broke on the small crane, and the large crane couldn't hold it up. I'm guessing it took 8 to 14 seconds for it to fall.

It's possible that retail investors are now more interested in taking new positions in booming Japanese shares.

Consumers' confidence has been bolstered by the improvement in business and labor market conditions, ... The latest gains are striking. This new boom in confidence should translate into increased consumer spending and stronger economic growth ahead.

Construction was booming last year. The market came back strong.

It is reminiscent of the Japan-based boom of the 1960s that seemed destined to create unbounded wealth.