During the commodities boom, exports of farm equipment and construction machinery from companies such as Caterpillar and John Deere helped boost the state's economy.
In 35 years, the New Jersey Nets did little to boost the state's reputation, going from bad to worse to woebegone, with brief, dreamlike interludes of success.
Some Connecticut Republicans are worried the federal plan isn't putting enough money into areas that will actually boost the state's economy.
Recent efforts by Matteo Renzi's government have sought to rein in the country's vast shadow economy and convince both individuals and companies to boost the state coffers.
New Haven Harbor holds the most intensely cultivated oyster beds on the Connecticut coast, said John Volk, director of the state's Bureau of Aquaculture in Milford, which has spent the last decade and a half trying to boost the state's shellfishing industry.
Gunns says that the A$1.7 billion ($1.5 billion) mill, the biggest private investment in Tasmania, will boost the state's struggling economy by turning chips into paper pulp at home, rather than shipping them off raw.
This is strange, considering that Texas's 800-mile coastline has done a lot to boost the state's economic growth since the first steamship edged up Buffalo Bayou in 1837.
New York has never had a greater opportunity to adopt real public higher education reforms that will empower the State University of New York to boost the state's economy and lead its economic revitalization.
Many Nigerian leaders have tried to boost the state's power supply, but many more have become rich by obstructing it, earning fees from private generation and stealing official funds meant for new power plants.
Worse, he began pushing to use money from the tobacco industry settlement to boost the state's borrowing power, a quick fix that only adds to long-term problems.
