Mayor Jean Quan pledged in her recent State of the City address to restore the force to its full strength by hiring 200 officers over the next five years, but acknowledged that would require "an absolutely amazing boom" in the city's coffers.
And the last numbers in the company are even during this amazing boom time, when co-working is hot, and everyone's moving into these spaces, they're still losing oceans and oceans of money on an operating basis.
These artificially depressed wages have fueled China's amazing manufacturing boom, the complaint contends, noting that China will add more factory jobs over the next five years than the total number of factory jobs in the United States, Europe and Japan.
"We were told our entire lives, we have this amazing property boom," she said, talking of people her age who grew up during the Celtic Tiger, only to be faced with the economic crash.
"It was amazing how we started — boom, boom, boom," Maroney said of how surely the Americans had landed their vaults.
His message: only a happy few are benefiting from Israel's amazing high-tech boom.
"For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then – boom!
"Colombians might have become a little more austere in the last couple of years, but the boom was amazing," said Yvonne Meyer, editor in chief of Casaviva, a magazine dedicated to residential design and architecture.
When it was under way, the boom felt amazing, even illusory; and, now that it's over, some of us are trying to hold on to specific moments before they harden into rancid jokes or the glazed finish of official history.
A shift in desks is not going to prevent Elisabeth Rosenthal from covering the unanticipated impacts of the biofuel boom or the amazing benefits of distributed solar power in rural Africa.
It describes the book as "an eloquently written compendium of curious natural facts and observations on Amazon life before the rubber boom, revealing the amazing zoological and botanical richness of the region" and calls his specimens "a hugely significant contribution to zoological discovery".
