They fell through hatches, fell overboard, fell from masts (which still existed and were plenty high enough to kill you, though they held cargo-boom cable blocks rather than sails).
What with the boom in cable and Internet, the old front porch is now wired.
Mr. Abendhoff said BP required boom with cable, but on a shoreline on the eastern side of Grand Isle, rough, oily waves had left several hundred feet of hard boom with no visible cable in a jumble on the rocks while splattering the shore with goo.
The boom in cable and online media has created a bottomless need for the gusher of news releases issued by Mr. Issa's irrepressible spokesman and Mini-Me, Kurt Bardella.
But then a recession came, along with persistent tax challenges by voters and precipitously declining ratings prompted by a boom in cable TV, leading some legislators to mutter about dropping the state subsidy for the network.
In this paper, a hybrid model of a spray boom with cable suspension is developed.
"The boom in cable modem shipments is a double edged sword for many modem manufacturers as the number of standards certified suppliers (now ten and counting) rise".
Viacom Inc. launched the channel 15 years ago during the last big boom in cable programming.
"Initially people were using boom without top cable," he said.
The worker, William Barnes, 48, of Port Washington, N.Y., was operating the hydraulic boom when a cable snapped.
That was a lot of potential TV-set sales, which was one force driving the cable boom.
