Despite a dire economy, there's a boom in progress.
"My buyers have found that construction quality went down as the boom years progressed," said Tom Demsker, who runs Demsker Realty, a specialist in downtown dwellings.
In June of 1988, I asked a residential real-estate broker on the West Side of Los Angeles what effect a defense cut-back would have on the real-estate boom then in progress.
For many banks, the crisis reflects a simpler tale of frenetic asset growth and the inevitable turn of the credit cycle.And that raises a bigger management question how institutions can resist the pressure to grow when a boom is in progress.
Under Mr Karzai, security has worsened, opium production has boomed and initial progress on women's rights has been largely eroded.
"WELCOME to a work in progress!" boomed John Krysko one recent afternoon as he bounded around puddles and stacks of construction debris outside the Marmaduke Forster house here.
"Through our system of democracy and free enterprise, the United States has achieved remarkable, unbelievable progress," Ford booms as the chef flicks the frying pan.
NEW YORK― While young women of the baby-boom generation saw rapid progress in terms of economic equality, health and overall well-being compared to their mothers, that trend has started to reverse for young millennial women, according to a new study by the Population Reference Bureau.
Political enlightenment and an economic boom have led to great progress in the Amazon rainforest, with Brazil's deforestation plummeting.
The ship's owner, Michael Quadrini, said magnanimously that he didn't want to stand in the way of progress during these boom times.
