The fracking boom in the United States has led to an exponential increase in the availability of natural gas, driving down prices dramatically -- and eating into the profits of American gas companies.
At the same time, with sales of apartments booming, the availability of units for subletting has dropped, exacerbating the city's housing shortage and further squeezing up rents.
In 1950, the availability of air conditioning provided impetus for many companies to relocate to Houston resulting in an economic boom and producing a key shift in the city's economy toward the energy sector.
Ever since the post-war boom in car ownership, matched by the availability of toy cars so beloved by many boys, cars have featured strongly in picture books.
That depends in part on the availability of viable alternatives.
In the 1980s, the boom in private equity transactions, specifically leveraged buyouts, was driven by the availability of financing, particularly high-yield debt, also known as "junk bonds".
That virtually ended the boom for private equity firms, whose takeover business depends on the availability of cheap debt.
Even though Rivera's murals were displayed at the height of the Great Depression in 1931, New York was ironically in the midst of a frenzied construction boom fueled by the deep pockets of the 1percentt and the availability of cheap labor due to the 25percentt unemployment rate.
-Increasing the availability of healthy food in all neighborhoods.
Most importantly, the availability of this information has led to a technological boom, with the development of high-throughput methods that could be used to interrogate the wealth of data available in the human genome and transcriptome.
